Recent Work- Skinner, Kitchen Knives, camp knife

[jhlarri]

Yeah, i know the photos aren't the best... I'm a knife maker (albeit not the best), not a photographer

Camp knife
1084 from Aldo
About 12 inches overall
Black Walnut handle and nickel silver fittings

Set of kitchen knives for myself
1084 from Aldo
Cocobolo and Ebony Handles

Japanese Carver- XMas gift to a friend
1084 from Aldo
Ebony and Cocobolo handles

Skinner 8" overall
ATS34
Stabilized Needlewood


Thanks for any comments,
-Jake

 

[Brian Ayres]

The kitchen set is lovely. Bravo on using carbon steel in the kitchen too!!
Thanks for sharing.

 

[AVigil]

It is a real pleasure to see fine knives that are actually meant to be used. Nice work

 

[Talesin]

I really like that carver you made there. Nice work on the wooden sheath too.

 

[quint]

Good looking stuff, I like that skinner as well. The wood sheath has gotta look really good with the knife.

 

[jhlarri]

Thanks all. The wood sheath is soft pine.
i figured if I am giving a kitchen knife as a gift, it would be nice to know it isn't being thrown in a drawer to rust and get banged up

Plus it's awkward wrapping an unsheathed knife

 

[Hesparus]

That sheath is beautiful — it looks like charcoal.
What thickness are you using for those kitchen knives? I've been thinking seriously about making myself some and I can't decide on thickness.

- Chris

 

[jhlarri]

Hesparus-- I actually had that same dilemma. I based my knives off of some kikuichi blades I saw at a shop. They were right extremely thick at about 3/8". The two big ones were from 3/16" stock I believe and the two smaller were from 1/8". Of course they were from Aldo's steel so it isn't precision ground, so the stock was prob a little thicker than that still. I am pretty happy with the thickness though, especially that chopper. It has great weight to it and cuts are effortless.