California Custom Knives: SLOW IS FAST

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

SLOW IS FAST

A Big Thanks go out to Dan Malloy, Kanoa Zimmerman and Kellen Keen for visiting my studio on their journey, and featuring my bladesmithing practice in their New Book and film, SLO IS FAST.

They will be debuting the film in this summer and I encourage you to check the BLOG for dates, locations and times of showing and book signing.

This is a fantastic collection of lives-lived-fully, documented through photography writing and film making. I feel blessed to have been a part of it.

again here is a link to the blog and film trailer:

http://www.thecleanestline.com/2013/07/slow-is-fast-2013-book-tour-dates.html

3 comments:

N.LoosveltAugust 7, 2013 at 8:36 PM
Very cool Don! -Nate
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hillAugust 16, 2013 at 5:22 PM
That's so awesome, Don! Congrats on being included in the project.
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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!