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A previous client asked if I was interested in making him and his wife a set of steak knives. "But of course!" The customer is always right! He likes his carbon steel for the blade patina and ease of sharpening, so we decided on using 1/16" PG O-1 tool steel at 60-61HRC. He also specified an upward swept tip, and it just so happened that my Chicago Cutlery steak knives had the exact profile he was looking for, so that's the design we went with. The handles are Claro Walnut hand rubbed to 800 grit and finished with Watco Danish Oil and a few coats of satin poly. My photograph abilities aren't very good when trying to take a picture of just one knife. Six knives? Fuggit about it! Thanks for checking out this first set of steak knives!
(For the makers out there, two production notes.....the Sheffield O1 was EXTREMELY stable in the quench. After quench and tempers, all 6 profiled blades were stacked up on one another and you couldn't see light between any of them. Usually there is "some" distortion, but not with this batch. Very impressed. And secondly, when I was doing the hand rubbed blade finish, as I got to 800 grit I tried using 800 grit lapping compound as a sanding lubricant with the paper. This is anecdotal, but it seemed to speed things up as well as blend the scratch pattern together for a different sort of satin appearance. I'll be doing the same sort of finish from now on. You might want to give it a shot!).
(For the makers out there, two production notes.....the Sheffield O1 was EXTREMELY stable in the quench. After quench and tempers, all 6 profiled blades were stacked up on one another and you couldn't see light between any of them. Usually there is "some" distortion, but not with this batch. Very impressed. And secondly, when I was doing the hand rubbed blade finish, as I got to 800 grit I tried using 800 grit lapping compound as a sanding lubricant with the paper. This is anecdotal, but it seemed to speed things up as well as blend the scratch pattern together for a different sort of satin appearance. I'll be doing the same sort of finish from now on. You might want to give it a shot!).
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