California Custom Knives: Falcon's Eye Chef & Grand Hamon Chef Knives

Friday, August 24, 2012

Falcon's Eye Chef & Grand Hamon Chef Knives

These represent two of my favorite medium & full-size chef knives coming to G4 with me.

On the top: "Falcon's Eye" Chef Knife
is forged to shape out of Aldo's W2 & features a snazzy differential quench with a bit of a visual-talon in it, some Antique Ivory Linen Micarta w/ gem-grade serpentine inlay and detail carving.

On the bottom:
"Grand Hamon" Chef Knife
forged to shape out of Aldo's 1095 with clay heat treatment & nice hamon, exquisite desert ironwood handles.

I hope you 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!