Sometimes I have the great luck to work with materials that are special to me. Among those curly birch has been for a long time of increasing interest. I was allowed for this true bespoke commission a free hand with it. This is the result: combined with african blackwood and bronze that sets the curlybirch off with their quiet and understated appearance, the overall impression is rich of features, yet well balanced in somewhat...
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After my friend Achim Wirtz gave me a piece of TNT666 to play with, I ended up with forging it as sanmai constructed blade material for cooking knives. while it firewelds like a dream it can be challenging in further working, if temperatures are not under control. after some experimenting, I came up with a viable heat treatment to make use of the steel´s properties. Thanks to his remarkable composition, there is little to very little...
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Myoushu is a highend damascus cooking knife. The blade is a composition of TWR/1.2513 vintage tungsten steel combined with 145sc and in a first weld and later with very thin layers of 75ni8 nickel steel covered by a springy jacket of s700 construction grade manganese steel and 75ni8 nickel steel that was later mixed with a very high carbon steel and 75ni8 nickel steel to create islands in the pattern at a later stage. The handle is...
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