Kitchen knife "How it's made"

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Cutting NCV1 steel into smaller pieces

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

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Material ready for welding

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

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

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

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Next step is raw work with two hammers.

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"
Each flat-bar needs to be grinded, cleaned from "mill scale" and "carbon deposit"

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

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

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

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
The damascus flat-bar ready for shaping the knife

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
End of second day of forging. Dirty, sweaty, exhausted

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"
The back will be 2,3mm thick at the base

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

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

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Quality control of the grind

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
matching the handle

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
Everything must fit to each other

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
This kitchen knive will have wodden box.

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
First "rough sketch" of the box.

Kitchen knife - "How it's made"
We slowly get closet to final step. Impregnated Burl shows beautifull collors

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"
The final effect of my work. This project took me 3 weeks to make.