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Damascus Santoku

A great little damascus Santoku with Maple Burl handle.

damascus chef

A unique damascus chef with damascus "garlic crusher." Handle is Ribbon Koa (selected by Mark Farely from Burl Source) with Walnut end-cap. Box is Maple w/Koa lid.

Pay-it-forward dagger

A forged-integral 1086 dagger I made for a charity started on Blade Forums. 100% of the proceeds went to the Wounded Warriors Foundation. Koa and Blackwood handle w/damascus pommel.

Utility/Slicer

1086 forged-integral w/Spalted Maple Burl and Claro Walnut end-cap.

Ironwood Tanto

A nice non-traditional Tanto I made from forged W2 with mild hamon (temper line.) Guard is Damascus. Handle is carved Desert Ironwood with Fossilized Walrus Ivory end-caps.

(Mitch Lum photo)

Pair of knives

This photo by J.G. Knives have Ironwood handles with Blackwood end-caps. Magstrip is Koa.

Damascus Katana

This is my version of a non-traditional Samuari Sword with no guard. Handle and scabbard in Peruvian Walnut. My "chaos" damascus.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Chef in the box

One of my Chef knives with "mustard finish" (a simple pre-patina process made famous by Wayne Goddard.) Handle is Curly Koa with Box Elder Burl.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Katana on the Stones

Another of my non-traditional Samurai swords. Bronze guard. Handle and scabbard in Peruvian Walnut and Curly Maple.

(Blade Gallery photo)

52100 Chef

A new Chef knife with forged 52100 blade, Box Elder Burl handle and Koa end-cap.

Damascus Dha

My version of the popular "Dha" shaped sword. This one has my "crop-circle" guard in stainless. Handle and scabbard are in Peruvian Walnut and Curly Maple.

(Blade Gallery photo)

52100 Bowie

A great Bowie I made and is the last of my J.S. knives that I've sold. It was an alternate test knife for my mastersmith test (didn't need to use it.) Glad it found a new home.

(Bladegallery photo)

Mastersmith Test set

This is my Mastersmith test set. I earned my MS rating in June 2010 and won the BR Hughes award for best Mastersmith test knife (the dagger.)

(Point Seven photo)

San Mai paring knife

Lacewood handle with Blackwood end-cap. Blade is damascus with 52100 core. Integral welded bolsters are mosaic damascus.

W2 Chef

A nice forged integral out of W2 with Koa handle and Koa lid for the display box.

Chef with Lisch Damascus

A beautiful chef using some of David Lisch's Damascus. Handle is Maple Burl with a little accent of Curly Maple and then a cool spalted maple end-cap.

A few of my knives

From the kitchen of Chile Boy.

Paring and Fruit/Utility knives

Forged 52100 integrals w/Desert Ironwood and Blackwood handles. (These will later get a "mustard finish" pre-patina, but I wanted you to see them in the hand-finished state before that process.)

Butterfly Swords

An amazing set of swords that I did as a custom order using some of David Lisch's damascus in the blades. I made the damascus in the guards. The handles are textured Koa and Walrus Ivory.

Butterfly Swords in Stand

Here is the scabbard and display stand for the Butterfly swords.

Carved Handle

This is the handle of my Ironwood Tanto.

(Mitch Lum photo)

Damascus close-up

Some of my damascus on a guardless Samurai Sword.

(Blade Gallery photo)

MS Dagger

My Mastersmith test dagger that earned me the BR Hughes awards in June 2010.

(Point Seven photo)

Blood Red Skies

Non-traditional Damascus Tanto w/Bloodwood stand.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Mini-CRU belt knife

My Carbon River Utility belt knife w/kydex sheath. Ipe' handle.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Damascus Slicer

Not your average BBQ utensil.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Crop-Circle guard

A non-traditional Tsuba inspired by crop-circle formations. I've made about 30 of these out of various materials.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Mini-chef

One of my fancier handles on this mini-chef.

(Blade Gallery photo)

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Chef cutting on the board

One of my few satin-finished kitchen knives.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Kris Dagger

My damascus version of a "Kris" styled dagger.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Santoku

A 52100 Santoku with nicely visible quench line. Handle is Koa and Box Elder Burl.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Damascus Saber

My version of an Indian Calvery Saber. I've always liked the one Cold Steel has for sale and just wanted to try my hand at it. Never held the original, but this one worked well for me. I'll have to try again one of these days, but that forged bronze guard was a bit of a challenge.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Saber handle

Another side of the Damascus Saber.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Pommel

Pommel of the damascus saber.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Small Tanto

This is a small "Stick-Tanto" with display stand.

Small stick-tanto

This is the "Stick-Tanto" open.

Longsword

A damascus long (or hand-and-half) sword I made a few years back.

Swordcane handle

Just a fancy handle I made for a swordcane.

Sword tip

Just a little shot of damascus on the tip of a Dha.

Journeyman Test set

This is my J.S. test set with two alternates (the integral camp and small B&T knife.) I could be wrong, but I think I'm the only J.S. to test with two daggers.

(Point Seven photo.)

Damascus longsword

Damascus Longsword with fancy woodworking. So much so, that Mitch forgot to photo the sword out of the scabbard. It's okay, I've forgotten all about it :-)

(Mitch Lum photo)

Punch Knife

One of my favorite pieces. I should make more of these... If only anyone wanted to buy one...

Punch Knife in Stand

That has got to be the coolest paperweight I have ever made!!!

Ktichen Mag-stand

Seeing this magnetic stand reminds me that I need to make this available to more of my kitchen knife customers. Isn't this great? The bar across the bottom is solid hexagonal brass. Very solid.

Custom sword

Made this for a customer who called it a "Yatlass." Check out the scabbard. I should do more of those.

9.5 inch Chef

A great little chef with some of David Lisch's damascus.

Two knives

A pair of kitchen knives with some of David Lisch's damascus with a little engraving by T. Ferry.

A Santoku

Dave Lisch Damascus. Handle is Maple Burl with Box Elder Burl end-cap.

Caffrey Broaches

I made these up for Ed Caffrey because he gave me a damascus hammer at a show. I knew he wanted some scrapers and I made them up out of my damascus and put on fancy Black Palm scales w/hidden pins.

Older Santoku

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Ivory cap

A very nice Fossilized Walrus Ivory end-cap for one of the Chef knives I recently made.

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Santoku

Another Santoku.

Sword Handle

Handle for a nice damascus sword. (Blade didn't photograph well.)

Two Chefs

A couple of Chef Knives in boxes. Both with David Lisch damascus and T. Ferry engraved bolsters.

Damascus knives

Matching Maple Burl handles with Curly Maple end-caps.

Four Knife set w/mag-block

Didn't this turn out great? I'm going to have to do this again. I have magnets under the pads to hold the four knives on the block.

Magnetic block.

Another pic of the mag-block.

Damascus set

Damascus kitchen knife set with matching handles.

Knife handle

Nice shot of some Curly Koa.

San Mai Chef

Some damascus sides on a 52100 core. I am definitely going to do more of these.

Damascus Paring knife

Just a little damascus paring/fruit knife.

Two display stands

I found these in my photo archives and forgot I made them. Wow! I need to make more of these elegant display stands for my swords.

Santoku

A wonderful little Santoku with "mustard finish." Striped Bubinga handle.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Sticksword

Just a fun little sticksword I made with a 1086 blade and Curly Maple w/Peruvian Walnut handle/scabbard.

Sticksword pic #2

Sticksword all together.

A 7" Chef knife

52100 blade with mustard finish/patina. Maple Burl with Curly Maple end-cap.

10" damascus Chef

Dagger in stand

A nice little damascus dagger with sword-in-the-stone style display stand.

Dagger pommel

Davis Fighter

A small "fighter" with damascus blade by John Davis.

Davis Hunter

A collaboration piece with damascus from John Davis. Handle is Maple Burl with Curly Maple inserts.

Matching Damascus set

A nice six-piece set of damascus kitchen knives for a wonderful collector.

Barbarian Sword

Another Barbarian

Battleaxe

"Black-Swords" in scabbards

"Black-Swords"

"Black-Swords" Guard set

Inspired by "crop-circles."

Damascus Bowie guard

A Bowie handle

Bread Knife

CRU knife

One of my original, "Carbon River Utility" knives.

CRU knife

Damascus Samurai Sword

Desk Stand

Forged integral Dha

Forged guard Dha

Handle and display stand

"Flood"

Damascus close-up

Guard

Another of my "crop-circle" inspired sword guards.

Original "Crop-Circle guard"

This is my first design inspired by "crop-circles."

Inlay handle

Non-traditional Katana

Knife

Nakiri

octagon mag stand

This was designed by a customer who wanted a rotating magnetic knife holder. The base is a solid steel plate. Very cool. Worked great.

Purple Heart Saber

Two-part handle

Samurai sword

Schempps Cane

This is a sword-cane knob using some of Ed Schempps very cool "basket weave" damascus.

Sedition

Utility slicer

Spearhead

Staffsword

Damascus staffsword with lots of curves.

Staffsword

Another staffsword

Chinese Broadsword

Chinese Broadsword -2

Desk stand

Vertical swordstand

Warsword

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Wooden bowl

Here is a bowl that I put together for Kim to turn. I loved that project and we will make more like this later.

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Carbon River Utility knife

This was one of my Mastersmith Test knives. The forged integral style knife is my favorite and I'm really happy how the Curly Koa and Box Elder Burl handle turned out.

(Blade Gallery photo)

Damascus Integral Camp-knife

Just a nice all around worker. Handle is Curly Koa. Spacers are Copper and G-10. I don't make sheaths any more, so don't even ask :-)

(Blade Gallery photo)

W2 forged-integral Gyuto

One of my favorites to date. Spalted Maple Burl with Inverted Maple Burl end-cap.

Damascus Samurai sword

Lots of nice carvings on this piece.

wa-guyto w/mustard finish

52100 Wa-Guyto with Maple and Dark Maple burl handle.

(Photo by Mark Richmond, CKTG)

W2 santoku

Forged-integral w/stabilized Koa and Walnut end-cap. Spacers are G-10 and copper.

52100 paring knife

A nice, neat little paring knife w/maple Burl and Blackwood handle.

Mustard finished 1086 Chef

A forged-integral chef with Pear-wood and Dark Maple Burl end-cap.