Hand crafted knives made in East Hampton New York

A SHARP TALE

Each knife is a journey. Each one is hard. And then you begin again.

There is nothing easy about knife making. I have seen websites that describe “15 steps to knife-making” these sites leave out at least 125 steps. It is a long and laborious process requiring expertise throughout every step.

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2000 Degrees & Bang Bang

Somewhere between 1400 and 2012 degrees is where the magic happens. Heat allows steel to convert into a hard and useful tool. If not austentized, quenched and tempered properly, the blade will not hold a sharp edge. I heat treat all my blades in an oven specifically made for knife making.

-320 DEGREES

Cryogenic treatment. This vital step helps refine the steel composition to ensure the best quality knife.

After the bang-bang stage, and the heat and cryogenic treatments, I wind up at my grinder. At this point, I fine tune the details of the tool. I start connecting all the “geometry dots;” at this stage, I am close to my final product.

FINISH

This is the part I love the most. After hours of agonizing over the process, I arrive here and start seeing it all come together. All the beauty really starts POPPING.

And there’s more… check out Steel Acid Etching Handles Details and the Gallery

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Sharp

After the blade is established, I sharpen the knife by hand on Japanese water stones of 8000 grit and higher. This is the only process that yields the sharpness that I desire for my knives. After sharpening, I finish the blade with either a mirror or Kasumi (hazy, semi-mirror) finish.

PETTY KNIFE

Forged Stainless steel sanmai. Handle is maple burl and carbon fiber spacers. Available in store.

CLEAVER

Stainless steel Damascus. Desert iron wood handle with green g 10 liners and mosaic pins.

MEDIUM SLICER K TIP

Ebony,silver nickel, maple burl rosewood handle, Stainless steel San mai. Available for order.

READY MADE KNIVES

From time to time I will have ready made knives available. When I do I post it on my Instagram.

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About

Hi there, meet me.

I was born in Malaysia by American parents and lived in Kuala Lumpur, and Southeast Asia till I was 6. Then we moved to Caracas and Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela where I spent most of my childhood and teenage life.I have always been curious about making things and tearing them apart to see how they work. I thought it would be fun to take an engine apart and then rebuild it and it actually worked. For the last 25 years I have been a high end cabinet and furniture maker and found myself lost with the need to spread my creative wings.

Knife making did it for me. So here we are.

“The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.”

— Hunter S. Thompson