James' 270mm W2 Honyaki 'Live Edge' Gyuto-Hiki

This knife is the result of a good friend (it seems most all of my customers somehow become 'good friends' during this process, lol. Another perk of the job!) and moderator here at our lovely Fora @James, contacting me about purchasing one of my 'stock' knives. We went back and forth a little on wood choice, but ended up choosing this incredible piece of buckeye burl. I suggested possibly incorporating the live edge, and he replied with 'As long as it's bad ass, and will hold up to use, go for it!' lol. Then when I cut the block open and found the huge inclusion on the other side, I almost scrapped the idea entirely. Luckily though, I decided to push through, hoping it would add to the image in my head...of the handle slowly rotting away. To this I added 165yr old wrough iron spacers, and copper liners reclaimed from the remodel of the main building at the nearly 100yr old high school I went to (Peoria High School, Peoria, AZ). The result couldn't have been a better match for the picture in my head .

Anyway!

270mm edge, 49mm heel, 172g, with a balance point of approximately 1cm in front of the heel, making this a very lively cutter with enough forward balance to be comfortable despite its light weight.

Steel: AISI W2 from Aldo Bruno at New Jersey Steel Baron
Handle: Stabilized (K&G) buckeye burl, with 165yr old wagon wheel wrought iron spacers, and reclaimed water piping liners.

Thank you for looking, and thank you James for the opportunity to build you this wonderful blade!!


Choil.


Spine.



Again, thanks for looking!!

 

Man is that some photo knife porn gone wild there,... nice black background btw lol. That is the most beautiful bad uhhh butt* knife I have ever seen. That thing came out amazing. Ill have to keep it in a separate place then my other knives, I dont want them looking at it !

 

Thanks James, lol. I love it as well!

On the pictures, Robert's given me a few photography pointers that have improved my cell phone pictures a hundred times over .

 

The handle is kaputt Otherwise reslly great!

Stefan

 

Lol kaput??

And thanks my friend!!

 

son of a...that thing is georgous.

I really like the handle.

 

Thanks Jason!

 

Now that's a knife!

Great work all around_ enjoy James.

 

Oh I will.... ill be looking for excuses to bust this one out lol, I mean im sure there are times its reasonable to chew just half a piece of gum right ?

 

Thank you Jim!!

James...if you're going to do a thing...do it all the way. I hear Bubbalicious is best julienned.

 

Gorgeous!!!

 

A few more pictures of James' knife before I mail it out tomorrow .


I wanted to show the taper of the spine a bit better. At the ferrule it's around 2.7mm if I recall. Between 2.55mm and 2.7mm for sure. Keep in mind that the thin spine is in no way an indication of the actual blade thickness (this seems to throw people a lot lol).


A few tip shots, inspired by Robert. That's a US quarter, which is about 1.75mm thick. Spine thickness 1cm from the tip is right around .58mm.

Anyhow!! Hopefully James will update with his own pictures here in the next week or so!

Thanks for watching all!

 

Love that grind! And the handle. Sehr kaput

 

Another great score James and beautiful work Cris:cool1

 

Thanks guys, lol!

 

ill definitely not be the pretty one in this relationship

 

outch !

 

Lol, was there ever a doubt??

Hopefully that's good lol?

 

hell yes it's good !!!!