Looks at this - really impressing photos from russian knifemaker

Very impressive indeed. What is the knifemakers' name? Are the knives sole authorship or does one person make the blades and another finish the knife? Please tell us more.
 
This is Leonid Arkhangelsky he is famous damascus/bulat smith, he known as inventor of stainless wootz he did a lot of experiment with different recepies with high Carbon content mixes with different additional elements, but his stainless wootz known best - it has 20% Cr and 3% C. He only smith, knves are made by different authors you may check Guild website some knives there have his blades -

http://www.rusartknife.urbannet.ru

prices are usually about few thousands for that knives.
Now his daughter is coming to be as famous as her father this is her "Bear dugger".

http://www.rusartknife.urbannet.ru/images/collab/medvezhiy.html

Thanks, Vassili.
 
I met him at the Moscow knifeshow last year. His daughter is a very promissing upcoming knife maker who won Best New Maker. The prize for Best New Maker was an electric drill... which she seemed very excited about.

He is a fascinating man to talk to. He is a metalurgist by training and worked in the Soviet space program.
 

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does he make his own stainless blooms or is he using a special thermal cycling routine on zdp-189?
 
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