This is a chef knife I forged in a quick 7-hour day. I challenged myself to forge a knife in not only one day, but also one hour and one week. The video of the challenge is on my YouTube channel if you’d like to watch.
This knife sold almost instantly, and I even got some people emailing upset they didn’t have a chance at it, so here’s another.
I made these knives from the place of a tool maker. How can I get to the most useful and practical tool in as quick a way as possible, while remaining true to the craft of bladesmithing? Well, this is what I landed on.
It’s brute de forge, which simply means it has forge scale left on. The blade is 7.5” with a 2.25” blade width. The grip is ironwood, with a stainless steel pin. Hidden tang that is 3/8” thick and 3” long. If you can break that during normal use and without the aid of a hydraulic press, you’re a superhuman.
This is not a knife taken to the utmost of finishing techniques; don’t expect $3K of finish and detail in these knives. But what you can expect is a blade that is made to the highest quality possible as far as it relates to function, heat treat, steel selection, and edge grind. 
The whole purpose was to create something you can use and abuse day in and day out, for life. The character of this blade is that it’s a rough and tough piece; that’s the beauty of it.
Specs: 
- 52100 steel hardened to 62 Rockwell
- Balanced at integral bolster
- Desert Ironwood grip 
Why these materials? 52100 is one the toughest and highest carbon steel available and will be an absolute unit of a kitchen knife for generations. 
Desert ironwood is a wood so dense that it has historically been used to build wooden bolts on ships, has a grain so tight and stable that it can’t be stabilized even with industrial vacuum chambers. It will outlast nearly every other wood in existence. And the biggest plus, it’s a stunnigly beautiful wood. 
I will open a pre-order each month for these due to the demand. I will cut off the pre-orders at the 10th of the month to give me time to get the orders made and shipped before the end of the month.
So, if you order before Jan 10th, it will ship before the end of the month. If you don’t get your order in prior to this, you will have to wait till Feb.