Posts by jjt


Cursina pendentif

Cursina pendentif


Posted on Jun 8, 2010

une cursina que vous pouvez porter comme bijou à votre cou. La corde passe à travers l´axe de la lame. Manche en bruyère corse, lame en acier au carbone (70mm).

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Kochmesser

Kochmesser


Posted on Aug 24, 2009

this is a gyuto. 3 layer san-mai hocho. Handforged. mountings and sheath of olive wood. the steel inside is hypereutectoid (1,45%carbon content) very pure very fine . I got it from Achim Wirtz in Germany. the iron on the outside of the blade is butter iron from Holland. It has 0% carbon.

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Klapp

Klapp


Posted on Aug 23, 2009

this little friction folder is one of a kind after an old kind of knife that has been made in France for the last 20 centuries . I made it for a friend. The blade is 1,4% carbon damascus completely worked by hand. the knife measures about 8cm opened, so it may not be called big. the handle is out of one crazy piece of mouflon horn from Sardinia. bird´s eye bushings are brass the axle/blade pin is stainless steel.

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Dolch

Dolch


Posted on Aug 23, 2009

I designed and realised this dagger as a masterpiece to celebrate my 10 years as a full time custom knifemaker. this is a composite damascus blade and mountings with intricate multiple blade geometry changing from hollow grind to convex to a reinforced point (cirah bonk) around a central fuller. composite damascus because I used a core damascus of about 0,7%C with a double covering of soft springy damascus of about 0,4%C and a nickel...

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