Loriendesign Gallery

[Lorien]

Hi there,
here are some examples of my work. Everything pictured here was designed and built by me, in my home shop on Vancouver Island.
If you like what you see here, please feel welcome to check out my subforum; https://www.bladeforums.com/forums/loriendesign.965/
Cheers!

Light Chopper

CPK DEK 1 Prototype

River Bear

CPK Khukuri Prototype

Unnamed

Shef

 

[Lorien]

my first kitchen knife

CPK DEK3 prototype

yew wood hammer handle

Tilikum

titanium machete and scabbard

 

[carnifex knifeworks]

Loving that shef knife

 

[RayseM]

This thread could top on for many more pages - each example 1st class!

 

[Lorien]

Loving that shef knife

This thread could top on for many more pages - each example 1st class!

thank you, Ray! I feel like I'm improving a little bit with every knife, just wanna keep that going until I'm Buster Warenski!

 

[Lorien]

a little woodworking knife for an old friend

a tacticlol knife called 'Sentinel'

a butcher knife for a dearly departed friend, RIP Edward

Version 1 of Albatross, a neck knife

a vegetable mini cleaver for my sister

 

[jfk1110]

All of your knives really speak out......Such great, organic, sublime designs!!
Great work..

 

[madcap_magician]

Oooh. I could stand to hear more about the Albatross!

 

[Lorien]

All of your knives really speak out......Such great, organic, sublime designs!!
Great work..

thank you so much! 'Organic' and 'sublime' are two words that I'm pleased to hear associated with my work

Oooh. I could stand to hear more about the Albatross!

what would you like to know?
I have at least two on my work list which I'll be starting fairly soon

 

[madcap_magician]

thank you so much! 'Organic' and 'sublime' are two words that I'm pleased to hear associated with my work

what would you like to know?
I have at least two on my work list which I'll be starting fairly soon

What are the dimensions of it? What are you making them out of currently?

 

[Lorien]

What are the dimensions of it? What are you making them out of currently?

here's a link to the Cormorant thread in my subbie; https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/cormorant.1947992/

I used Cruwear for this design, it has a nice balance of attributes.

Highly wear resistant steels are also a good choice; S90V, M4, S110V etc also not a bad call. AEB-L, although not as wear resistant, would probably be my go to choice, though. Excellent edge stability, high toughness at high hardness, stainlessness and ease of sharpening are characteristics I like in AEB-L for general purpose utility knives

 

[RayseM]

HEY - you talkin' bout me?

Got to have one! Here's the deal.

 

[Lorien]

a bubinga handled chef, with titanium ferrule and A2 blade

this is called Roundhouse, and it's based off a folding knife I designed which was produced by Boker

a pair of throwing knives in 8mm thick A2 with kevlar cord handle wrap

 

[PenisMightier]

Your work is truly magnificent! That Tilikum is absolutely beautiful, the curves and that swedge/false edge look quite nice.

 

[Lorien]

Your work is truly magnificent! That Tilikum is absolutely beautiful, the curves and that swedge/false edge look quite nice.

thank you very much, that's nice of you to say! Tilikum was a pretty early piece, I still have an aluminum template and I've been thinking on revisiting it now that I know more than I did about how to go about making knives

unrelated, but I think I read your handle wrong at first...or did I?

 

[PenisMightier]

thank you very much, that's nice of you to say! Tilikum was a pretty early piece, I still have an aluminum template and I've been thinking on revisiting it now that I know more than I did about how to go about making knives

unrelated, but I think I read your handle wrong at first...or did I?

It would be nice to see if you do anything different with it if you make one again.

Haha, it is an homage to a classic SNL Jeopardy sketch, so you probably read it right.

 

[Lorien]

It would be nice to see if you do anything different with it if you make one again.

Haha, it is an homage to a classic SNL Jeopardy sketch, so you probably read it right.

I appreciate your sense of humour, sir!

 

[Lorien]

CPK DEK2 prototype, (handle scales made by CPK, not me)

another khukuri

this model is called Q Factor, I love this little knife

Jungle Brother- my personal knife for a year, and an important knife for testing my CPM 3V heat treatment

a kitchen knife I made for my wife

 

[carnifex knifeworks]

Love that jungle brother and the roundhouse fixed blade!

 

[Lorien]

Love that jungle brother and the roundhouse fixed blade!

there is a plan formulating to revisit Roundhouse soon. I think it will be my first knife with bolsters- it was designed for them but at that time I wasn't confident my skillset would allow me to do that efficiently. I've learned a lot and ain't tripping all over myself anymore, so it's almost about time to take a shot. I'm thinking tapered tang as well, might as well make it as challenging as possible at this point!