Bernard Górny

Kitchen knife "How it's made"

I wanted to show you the process of making one of my kitchen knives

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Cutting NCV1 steel into smaller pieces

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Cleaning the surface from rust and other pollutions

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Material ready for welding

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Welding time! Even simple vise makes welding much easier

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Welded material ready for forging

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
first forging

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Next step is raw work with two hammers.

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
First phase completed. We have a few damascus steel flat-bars to work with

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Each flat-bar needs to be grinded, cleaned from "mill scale" and "carbon deposit"

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
cleaned, grinded and cut into pieces

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
The first forging I do on my own

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Working with damascus requires much strength. Its easier if you have someone with additional hammer

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The damascus flat-bar ready for shaping the knife

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End of second day of forging. Dirty, sweaty, exhausted

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
The most time consuming is the grinding. But not the initial grinding with electric tools but the one with grindstones, water, and own hands.

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
The back will be 2,3mm thick at the base

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Quality control. On every stage of production

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Elasticity tests

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Quality control of the grind

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matching the handle

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Everything must fit to each other

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This kitchen knive will have wodden box.

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First "rough sketch" of the box.

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We slowly get closet to final step. Impregnated Burl shows beautifull collors

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Final step before attaching all the pieces is the sharpening. I sharpen blade just before completing my work to minimalise the risk of getting hurt

Kitchen knife - "How it's made" — Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
The final effect of my work. This project took me 3 weeks to make.

Forging exhibition in Wojciechów
During the smith meeting in Wojciechów, we showed some of traditional Japanese forging techniques. To do so, we made japanese bellows and furnance

Forging exhibition in Wojciechów

Tests of collored oxide
My tests of adding collored oxide to the blade.

Tests of collored oxide