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What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

My new chef knife is basically an offshoot of the slightly smaller Arcolinea, which is a sort of hybrid between the French and Japanese styles. Well, you know how silly I can be. I want to call it the Samurai Pierre.
 
Before I shut it down tonight, I wanted to mention that I am looking at making significant use this coming year of .075" stock or thereabouts. Knives in .093" are thin and slicey but retain good strength and rigidity. Knives in .06" stock are laserbeams, but difficult to make the spine comfortable on a chef's knife, even with a crowned spine, as they are so thin. Nothing wrong with a chef's knife or EDChef, neck knife, etc. in .093". But I think splitting the difference will yield a desirable balance between cutting power and comfort for the kitchen and small EDC knife needs. I think this will be a winner.

Larger work knives, tacticals, and the like are still looking at .125" and above.
 
I like the 3/32 as about as thin to go, however the .075 sounds like a good in between 1/16 and 3/32, would love to see the models for EDC for that thickness. Would you limit the blade length to like 2.5 to 3.5 for the EDC but you may make some kitchen knives with that blade thickness (.075)? I really like one of my Big Chris hunters in 1/16.
 
cbach8tw said:
I like the 3/32 as about as thin to go, however the .075 sounds like a good in between 1/16 and 3/32, would love to see the models for EDC for that thickness. Would you limit the blade length to like 2.5 to 3.5 for the EDC but you may make some kitchen knives with that blade thickness (.075)? I really like one of my Big Chris hunters in 1/16.
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too much math in here. both decimals and fractions in the same post....giving me flashbacks of grade school again
 
cbach8tw said:
I like the 3/32 as about as thin to go, however the .075 sounds like a good in between 1/16 and 3/32, would love to see the models for EDC for that thickness. Would you limit the blade length to like 2.5 to 3.5 for the EDC but you may make some kitchen knives with that blade thickness (.075)? I really like one of my Big Chris hunters in 1/16.
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……yes? Wait. No. Ummmmm maybe.
 
I just assumed NJSB would have whatever thickness I want.... well looks like the skinniest two choices for the three alloys I plan to run are .06 and .09. Which is perfectly fine. The split the middle experiment can wait. So now I have to decide if I want to use .06 again. It is laser like, but those spines are too....

cbach8tw said:
I like the 3/32 as about as thin to go
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Prophetic?
 
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