We finished a smaller knife today. 10" overall w/ a 5.5" blade in 440c. Handle is Texas Pecan and Brazilian Purpleheart with a black and white liner. Pins are handmade mosaics. Super fast knife! Dirk designed the blade and I designed the handle material. The handle material was actually supposed to go on a different [...]
We finished up a beautiful custom chef knife in 440c stainless steel w/ a water buffalo horn handle, orange liners and pins for blogger / cook book author Melissa Joulwan. I love the way this horn turned out with the honey streaks and awesome orange contrast. Also, Melissa has a great paleo cookbook out called [...]
I mentioned it before, but here's the actual video from our webisode with Hilah Cooking. We shot a ton of video and I'm happy that Chris (Hilah's co-worker and partner) edited it down to 8 minutes. Check out the video that already has over 7,500 views in less than a week!
An old friend of mine from Mabank, TX who I used to play baseball with in highschool asked me to make him a custom filet knife named Steve Browning. He's an avid fisherman and duck hunter so he wanted the knife to be dual purpose. This meant a truly custom blade with just enough flex, [...]
Nicole Beckley at Tribeza magazine reached out and asked if she could do an interview with me for their upcoming food issue. I was happy to participate and have a story in one of my favorite Austin magazines. You can read the entire story here or click on the link below. It's short and to [...]
I'm always hesitant to use G10 but I took a chance on this one and it came out really cool. This is black and green layered G10 and I put it on a fish tailed custom chef knife that came in around 12 inches overall. Roughly an 8.5 inch blade. We commissioned Metier to sell [...]