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Here's a set of Martell CPM154 knives with AZ Ironwood handles with marbled buffalo ferrules....

 

Here are Sam's knives that he's been waiting for YEARS to receive!

I was supposed to make a cleaver as well as these knives and kept putting this order off because of this. I recently had to be honest with myself and admit that I'm not ready to do this yet so I moved on with making the knives. I wish I could have been more insightful a few years ago though, Sam would have had these knives for a long time at this point, I made him wait unnecessarily, and for this I'm truly sorry.

Now I hope that Sam will like what I've done here and not regret having dealt with me on these knives.

A big thank you to you Sam for being so patient and understanding over the years.




Knife specs...

Sujihiki - 240mm in O1 @ Rc60-61 with CA buckeye burl, African blackwood, and nickel silver spacers.
(BTW, this is likely the last knife I will ever use buckeye burl on! I made a promise to Sam to use this wood way back when and that's the only reason why I used this pain in the ass wood here & now)

Nakiri - 180mm in O1 @ Rc60-61 with two toned amboyna burl, African blackwood, and copper spacers.

 

Beautiful work again, Dave!

 

Thanks Lucretia

 

Darn sexy sir.

 

I assume you mean the knives and not me?

Thanks!

 

Post a pic of you instead of knives. We will see who is the sexier.

 

My wife just shot this picture of me playing in the sprinkler...sorry I couldn't find my shirt

 

More! More! Dave breaks the Internet!

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Nice to see Dave toning it down and keeping content suitable for public viewing

 

wow. Dave. Thank a lot for this picture of you. I wanted to buy one of you knife, but my wife was serving me the "one-more-knife-that-we-do-not-need-and-that-is-expensive". Now I have a great argument.

 

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Here's another long awaited gyuto from the way back list finally completed for Tamlin. Originally this was ordered in O1 as that's all I was working with at the time but now I have CPM-154 as well so Tamlin was able to change the order to this steel instead.

Tamlin, I'm sorry for the very long wait I put you through and appreciate your support & patience during this time.

Dave



Stats:
Blade Length - 240mm
Steel - CPM-154
Hardness - Rc61-62
Handle - Amboyna Burl & African Blackwood

 

Here is Dan's 160mm petty made from O-1. It's a hidden tang style western handle made from maple burl and African blackwood. I really like this little knife a lot. Dan basically left the handle wood choice to me saying that he wanted "durable, good looks, darkish, something with grain or figure, natural tones, and an interesting appearance". I picked these woods based on his wants and I think I got some of that down here.

The maple is some incredible stuff. I had this particular (very small) block sitting around for awhile waiting for a petty to come along. The blackwood is unusual, I had only this small piece left over from another handle, it's brown (with red tones) vs the normally seen blacker variety, I liked it paired with this maple so I went with it.

Dan has been waiting for this knife for many years. I want to apologize to you Dan for waiting so long to receive this knife from me and thank you for your patience and understanding.

 

I love Curly Maple and I think you nailed it again Dave.

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Thanks Andrew

 

Why are you not a fan of buckeye Burl? I have had problems with it as well even after K &G stabilization.

 

Sounds like we're dealing with the same problem. I often joke that buckeye burl is just pretty looking compacted dust.

 

Here's another long waited on knife going back a few years. This customer is a great guy, most of you probably know him, certainly know of him for sure. John was one of my earliest Martell knife supporters, taking a huge leap of faith in ordering knife #9 (which might have actually been suji #1 as well). He's been very patient with me all of this time waiting on this knife and I can't thank him enough for this. I am, however, sorry to have made him wait and hope that he gets joy from this new knife coming his way.

160mm petty
CPM-154 @ RC61-62
AZ Ironwood
Buffalo Horn (honey blond)

This block of ironwood is really something. I had initially bought this a long time ago and put it aside for a special project and forgot about it. John asked for nice quality (even offered to pay more for it) but luckily I found this one and decided that the special project was here.

 

Dave that petty is freaking beautiful!!!