New kitchen utensile

Will52100

Will52100

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Just finsihed this up, pretty simple, but looks like the FF has finaly left my shop to get this much done!

4 1/4" blade of ATS-34 9 7/8" overall, brass bolster and brass and stainless loveless handle bolts. Tapered tange, flat ground with convex edge, hand rubed to 600 grit. Handles are curly maple, this is a test to see how well the finish holds up, nothing ages as fast as a kitchen knife!
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yep your right! kitchen blades are some of the hardest used knives around. the water and food acids put the miles on fast. i sell alot with fancy stabilized woods but the micarta is really the hard use choice. corian works well too, the problem i have with it is that is pretty heavy and you go through a lot of belts on it.
 
That is a really nice looking knife Will I've tried my hand at three small paring knives. So far so good except they sure have gotten a lot of bangs and they show.

Roger
 
Hey there Mr. 52100,

That's kinda purdy to be gettin beat up in the kitchen. My wife would have that looking old in a week or less. She still insists on leaving the dirty knives in a sink full of water over night. I even caught her washing a knife and puting it in the knife block still dripping wet. But I can't fault her too much, she's a darn good cook. She's an Italian New York girl... I'm never hungry and I always know exactly where I stand. ;)

Rick
 
Thanks guys, seems like finishing that finaly got everything back on track.

I died and stabilized the handle in polyurithane, be interesting to see how it holds up.

Baumr, I know the feeling, thats why it's stainless, not carbon! Even that might not help though. This is a gift for my mother, and she's been known to leave them in dirty dishwater over night, leave them all day in the sink dirty with no water, and worst of all in my opion, sharpen them with the sharpener on the back of can openers:eek: I did wring a promiss from her to let me sharpen it. I figure if a knife can survive her, it can survive darn near anything!
 
Will, Really nice work, guy! I made a kitchen knife(NOT that fancy) with maple handle and same finish. We have been using it pretty hard for several years at work and it has held up really great. I have another to make with fossilized coral and would like to use your blade design, which is a good medium between a paring and serious cutting job.
 
Good looking knife!! I bet it would work just as well as a camping/hunting knife. Good overall flow in your lines. The brass and maple go nice together.
 
I've thought of a couple of modifications to make it more suited for the field, namely a little more of a gaurd, but I don't do many stock removeall, so that'll be for latter.

John, not my desighn, I got the idea from a pic of the only set of Loveless kitchen knives ever made. Loveless's had rosewood handles and were much nicer, but they all looked like extraordinary kitchen utinsiles.
 
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