Number Nine!

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Don Nguyen

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This is my 9th knife, I think. I've made 2 little non-kitchen knives prior, so it's my 7th kitchen knife. It was an older forged 1084 blank I never got to finishing earlier this year, so I decided to finally get it done. The profile isn't my favorite (I'm also not a general fan of Santoku's) since I've lately had new ones drawn out, but I'm proud of how it turned out.


-Forged from Aldo's 1084fg
-3.26mm (1/8") Spine Thickness with distal taper
-Asymmetrically blended flat grinds, biased for right handers
-0.005" Thickness behind Edge
-Brown G10 Liners with Black Paper Micarta Handle, hidden pins


The handle shape is based off my original prototype shape, but slightly larger (and shorter, for this short knife). It's kind of a D shape on both sides, heavily tapered, and rounded bottom.


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Looks terrible. Send it to me and I will keep it hidden. Nobody will ever know.
Just Kidding Don.

I would not call it a Santoku though.
To me at first glance I think of an ultra modern hybrid nakiri.
Whatever you call it, I think it looks great.
Plus.... I am very fond of your handle design.

Looks like a piece of functional art to me.

as an afterthought;
Change your major from engineering to art/design
 
Thanks for the kind words everyone!

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Looks terrible. Send it to me and I will keep it hidden. Nobody will ever know.
Just Kidding Don.

I would not call it a Santoku though.
To me at first glance I think of an ultra modern hybrid nakiri.
Whatever you call it, I think it looks great.
Plus.... I am very fond of your handle design.

Looks like a piece of functional art to me.

as an afterthought;
Change your major from engineering to art/design
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To be honest, I had no idea what to call it. I almost decided to call it a santikiri. There are a couple things I would change in the design now that I'm done with it, but I learned a ton from making it.

And... maybe I should major in art AND engineering...
 
I cant believe thats only your 9th!!! You seem to be waaay ahead of the curve. great job and I love the way you angle those handles.
 
So cool!!!

I am a big fan and this is only #9, wow! Keep up the great work!

Meet point faceting...
 
Thanks for the kind words everyone!

I am pretty fond of the handle design. I almost want to keep this one for myself...
 
I like most things about this knife, one thing I would think about is the flat top of the handle.
As a safety feature you shouldn't be able to stand it on it's back like that.

Great job

Richard
 
Richard, I never even thought about that. I could probably just slightly angle each side of the top of the handle in that case.
 
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