California Custom Knives: Something A Little Different *Whittling Knives*

Friday, March 16, 2012

Something A Little Different Whittling Knives

I was asked by Brian aka> bbbowers here on the USN to make some whittling knives for he and his wife.

After spending some time around the Traditional Knives forum I think I was influenced by some of the blade shapes I saw over there & got around to forging these little blades out.
For sure they are the smallest blades I have made to date at like 2-3". Both are satin finished 1095 fully hardened and wickedly sharp!

I just shipped them out to him after making two very simple leather sheaths for them.
My normal trademark slip sheaths would not do, they really needed leather to be safe and more easily taken long to the camp or wherever.

Enjoy the images.

-DON

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Perfection and Beauty

What is a Hand Made Knife?

I specialize in making Heirloom Quality Knives.
They are made by hand.
This means that, while I do now own a few power tools compared to the first 7-years when I had virtually little to speak of, other than a hand drill and then a drill press; I now own a grinder and a power hammer; and yet, the knives are still created with hand-held practices, using fairly simple tools for the most part.
All of my knives are designed and created by me. I am creating some stock reduction knives, but other than that....
Each blade is forged hot on an anvil to 90% of the shape that it will be when finished. This takes Skill and lots of attention to accomplish. Adding in a TW-90 grinder helped with post stock reduction heat treatment, a process that has allowed me to refine the edge geometry on my chef knives to a place where I am very pleased with the results.
Then each knife is tested for edge-flex and toughness. Some of the testing phase can be seen in the banner image above, where after the edge-flex test I chop on very hard wood.
If the knives still shave hair after this testing then they are good to go!
Both of the two chef knives in that banner image passed with flying colors and will be cleaned-up and have handles placed on them. And eventually go into the kitchens or campsites of the new owners.
Knives made my hand are beautiful!