Client
Winston Fong
Project
Matching Damascus Japanese style Chef's knives
The details
I had the pleasure of working with Winston when we were both at Lizard Island. He contacted me late last year to ask if I could make a set of special Damascus knives for him, for use in his classes and demonstrations.
Whilst it started as a 2-knife set, after a small flaw in the tip of one of them meant it had to be cut shorter than originally requested, I decided to make it a 3-knife set for him.
The billets started as 20 layers, and were drawn, cut, stacked and re-drawn a number of times to end up with around 1000 layers each. Then they were cut and stacked one last time, with additional thick pieces of 1084 in between to effectively make them Go Mai (5 layer) billets that were drawn out to square bars, the bars were then rounded, twisted, before being drawn out to flat bars ready for shaping into each blade.
Finished with beautiful and extremely durable Australian Blue Gum handles and copper bolsters, they are easily the blades that I am most proud of.
