This page was last updated on: November 24, 2020
Knife Making
As well as running some of the finest courses in knifemaking that you will find, I can also offer you some bits to get you going on your own! The steel, wood, leather, and all other materials are the same as I use in my knives. I often have a selection of blades made and ready for you to fit your own handles to, but should I not have the right one for you then get in touch and I can make something to your design.
Mono Steel Blades
All of my blades are forged from medium or high carbon spring and tool steels, heat treated and sharpened ready for you to fit handles to. Each blade is unique, so the pictures you see are the actual blades that I have available at the moment, please don't assume that they are standard patterns!
Full tang blades all have tapered tangs and the stick tangs are rectangular in section |(except where the blades are ground and polished, where they are the same profile as the blade).
Click on each picture for a closer look at the blade with details about materials, dimensions and prices.
When ordering a blade, please quote the number written on the tang.
'Simple' Laminated blades Blades
These are a simple 2 metal laminate. In some cases it is a cutting edge, butt welded to a wrought iron body and in other cases it is a 3 layer laminate (often referred to these days by it's Japanese name 'San Mai', though the technique has been ubiquitous to the whole world since the Iron Age).
Mostly these laminates have bodies or cladding of wrought iron for a bit of interest and visual texture, but being soft it will hold the hard edge together and prevent the blade from snapping (which is the primary reason for it still being used in sub-zero climates, when mono steel blades can become brittle). This soft surface can be carved, engraved, inlayed and overlaid by you for extra bling! I do, very occasionally also clad in stainless steel.
Each blade is unique and clicking on the individual pictures will show you a better view along with dimensions and prices
Knife Making Steel
These are some of the same steels that I use in my own knives and other tools. As I use many of these steels in a lot of different sizes, if you can't find the size that you are looking for then it might be worth dropping me an email.
Please note that only the O1 is ground flat, everything else comes from my own stocks. That means it is in mill black bar stock, with rounded edges, mill scale and not precision ground. If you're forging it, then why pay the extra for surface grinding?! ;-)
O1 Tool Steel
EN45 Silicon Manganese Spring Steel
EN9 Spring Steel
Handle Materials
I only use native hardwoods for my tool and knife handles.
Pattern Welded Blades
Pattern welded or Damascus blades are made by taking two or more different steels and laminating them together using pressure and heat (I get it hot and hit it hard!). It doesn't make them any stronger or function better, but it does make them pretty :-)
The steels used are all good knife steels but are chosen primarily for their good contrast. Other blades here are made from several bars of different patterns, but separate edges of good steel are added to ensure that they perform to their best.
Each blade is unique and clicking on the individual pictures will show you a better view along with dimensions and prices
