Massdrop Polling for USA Made Kitchen Knives

I have been working on a few models that I am considering creating a production line out of. Currently I have the Paring knives in production and thought these are pretty much still hand made knives, I will be shooting for a better price-point than some of the full customs with Hamon lines as in these images of the New Utility Paring Knife.
   The FTTU Full Tang Tribal Utility is a newly created design, Born out of the Tribal Utility knife that you can find in earlier posts, it is a sweet knife for daily use in any kitchen, and would make a fantastic line-knife for professional kitchen work as well.
   The Personal Chef is a creation that started life as a knife i made for myself some years ago. It gained in popularity among my visiting chef and avid cook friends who worked in my kitchen.....so I figured I would make it part of my line-up. Currently the thoughts on this knife are to make it our of 52100 carbon steel, but there may be a split on the number of pieces produced, some being in AEBL (13c26) stainless steel.

These are the prototypes, hand made versions of the knives I plan on creating in CMP-154 stainless steel. Slight variations on these will be that the pins and inlay will all be matching brown micarta, the handle material you see here is Antique Paper Micarta which will be the material of choice for the run of 50-pieces. 

The blades are 4" in length of cutting edge, and will be hollow-ground on the run of 50, the Overall Length is Just shy of 9" - giving plenty of handle for control and making this a wonderful little knife that will be handy in any kitchen.

These knives will essentially be hand made knives but will use some machines to accomplish the simple task of creating the actual outline of the knife, the rest is all hand ground and shaped, finished and sharpened.

Currently polling these for pre-order of a limited edition of 50-Knives in CPM-154

 Projected costs are still being worked out, but these are looking to be somewhere in the range of $285-310ea.

These are currently in production now, and are

Expected to be available: Fall 2015.

 

 

FTTU > Full Tang tribal Utility 

These are the prototypes, hand made versions of the knives I plan on creating in CMP-154 stainless steel or possibly CTS-XHP. Slight variations on these will be that the pins and inlay will all be matching brown micarta, the handle material you see here is Antique Paper Micarta which will be the material of choice for the run of 50-pieces. 

The blades are 5.25" in length of cutting edge and the Overall Length is Just shy of 10.25" - giving plenty of handle for control and making this a wonderful little knife that will be handy in any kitchen.

 The run of 50-knives will essentially be hand made knives but will use some machines to accomplish the simple task of creating the actual outline of the knife, the rest is all hand ground and shaped, finished and sharpened.

This is a knife that will fast become your favorite in the kitchen! The perfect knife for daily meal-prep. and a super sweet size for making small meals, detail tasks, or taking along for a picnic or camp-outing.

Currently polling these for pre-order of a limited edition of 50-Knives in CTS-XHP or CPM-154. 
Projected costs are still being worked out, but these are looking to be somewhere in the range of $475-525ea.

Personal Chef

This is one of the prototypes, hand made version of an excellent medium-full size kitchen knife. 

The plan is to create a imited edition of 25 of these in 52100 carbon tool steel and 25 in AEBL (13c26) Stainless Steel as pictured. 

Slight variations on these knives will be that the pins and inlay will all be matching brown micarta, the handle material you see here is Antique Paper Micarta which will be the material of choice for the run of 50-pieces. There will be no carving on the handles as seen either, but this may be an option of occur on a few in each edition. 

The blades are 7.25" in length of cutting edge and the Overall Length of 12.25". this will be that perfect main knife in any kitchen.

The run of 50-knives will essentially be hand made knives but will use some machines to accomplish the simple task of creating the actual outline of the knife, the rest is all hand ground and shaped, finished and sharpened.

Currently polling these for pre-order of a limited edition of 25-Knives in 52100 Carbon Steel, and 25 in AEBL (13c26) Stainless Steel. Projected costs are still being worked out, but these are looking to be somewhere in the range of $700-800ea.