Martell Knives Gallery

I just finished up these two butcher knives....

1. 7.5" Butcher

2. 6" Boning



Steel - O1

Handles - African Blackwood with nickel silver pins




This is the first boning knife that I've made. It took me a bit to get just right but in the end I liked it enough that I made a pattern/copy of it. This knife, just like the butcher, is fully convex ground plus it's distal tapered nicely down to the tip. It's thin - yet stiff. I added a notch cut out just before the handle to allow for proper sharpening the full length of the blade. I fashioned it after an early 1900's Remington professional butcher knife pattern found in an old catalog. What do you think about it?

 

Here's a 160mm petty done in O1 with spalted maple and buffalo horn handle....

 

Just finished this one up. It's a 160mm petty made from CPM-154 with dyed box elder burl handle. The customer wanted only to use the wood block on the handle (no other ferrule materials) but asked to break it up with some spacers, we chose to use nickel silver and blue G10 to tie in with the blue dye job on the wood.

 

Frickin' stunning, beautiful work, Dave! :cool1

 

Thanks

 

Here's another 160mm petty made from CPM-154 powdered steel wearing an oval wa handle made of yellow dyed box elder burl and Hawaiian koa. The customer left the ferrule wood choice up to me, I hope he likes the odd match up as much as I do.

 

I really love that oval wa box elder and koa petty. Looks perfect to me

 

Here's a set (sujihiki & nakiri) done in O1 with exhibition grade koa, streaked blond buffalo horn, and copper accents.

 

very nice pair Dave.

 

Thank you

 

Beautiful stuff, Dave! You are really knocking out a lot of really great knives these days -- it's is wonderful to see!

 

Thanks David

 

Here's something I don't get to make too often a kiritsuke. This one is 250mm in length. Made from CPM-154 powdered stainless steel using presentation grade koa and streaked blond buffalo horn for the handle.

This koa came from a block that I must have offered to (at least) 20 people plus I posted pictures of it online in the petty thread and no one wanted it. This customer let me pick the wood so I jumped on this one. Eat your hearts out now suckers! I knew it was going to be a winner.....moral of this story is to always trust Dave....with your wood picks anyway.

 

Here's my 1st 220mm gyuto...


Steel - CPM154

Handle - Dyed Maple Burl & African Blackwood w/ nickel silver/G10 spacers

Height - 52mm (@ heel)

 

Martell 160mm CPM-154 Petty wearing dyed brown box elder burl & African blackwood....

 

That wood is mesmerizing.

 

It's some interesting stuff isn't it?

 

Up next we have a 270mm gyuto in CPM-154 with an amboyna burl, streaked blond buffalo, with copper spacer and mosaic pin handle....

 

Love amboyna. Did you change the finish on your knives? Looks to have a little more shine, but could be the light.

 

CPM154 makes a better finish than O1 does.