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#DamasteelBuildalong

An exciting addition to DCI Online – we’re showcasing the work of makers who all started with the same sized billet of DS93XTM – with the simple rule that they have to make something culinary!

Welcome to the show!

Celebrating Damasteel’s 30th Anniversary: #Buildalong is back in a special format – one foot-long billet of RWL34 and an accompanying patterned piece of Heimskringla to create an accent to your blade OR an accompanying piece.

Each week you can send in your questions or dilemmas, written or via audio message to the team at Knife Talk Podcast as they walk you through a culinary build.

Remember to take one amazing photo of your final work and send it to dci@damasteel.com before Halloween to be entered to win a prize or award

  • Knife Talk’s Choice
  • Per’s Choice
  • Alfredo Faccipieri is joining to award BEST Mirror Polished Blade!
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#DamasteelBuildalong – 2024 submissions

TW Knives by Trevor Wawro – 8” chef knife is 1.9” tall at the heel. The handle is dyed curly maple, with Tiffany Blue G10 inlayed, with a custom TW Knives logo.
B. Sunday Knives – Nakiri – blade 6 ¼ inches (160 mm) overall 11 ¾ inches ( 300mm)
Weight is 165g. The handle inlay is stabilized Buckeye Burl, fitted together with a dovetail into Black G10
An “S”  shaped choil for added blade length that had been chamfered for comfort.
Hidden Rose Forge by Bryan Hunt 4.5″ bowie style paring knife with .010″ behind the edge. Handle is a black linen micarta framed construction with spaghetti oak, G.L. Hansen and sons ridgeback g-carta inlay and blue curly maple handle
WINNER! Knife Talk favourite GROM Knives by Ryan Sweeney Blade: Damasteel Drakkar 8.5” chef’s knife. Full flat grind. Handle: Made of all recycled and reclaimed materials including ironwood, bronze and various offcuts. Inspired by turn-of-the-century Native American design and jewelry and Art Deco styling.
Paul Janzen – Cleaver with Pin Oak Handle
Brigham Kindell – 9 inch chef that I call “The Honey Hole”. Juma and brass bolsters and a gold resin.
William Amoureux – 9″ long and total length of 14.5 inches with a 2-inch heal. The knife weighs 6.5 oz..
The handle is Mukume Gane bolster, carbon fibre spacers, stabilized redwood burl dyed green, and scavenged elephant ivory (imported to America prior to the ban on ivory imports)
Logan Lightenhan – Nakiri style chef with live edge spalted maple handle
Luke Mitchell – Knife: chef (clip-point)
Handle: Oak (rescued from the firewood pile)

Justin Richard – Petty with a 7 3/8″ long blade and a 1 15/16″ tall heel. The handle is made with vintage emerald micarta, black canvas micarta liners, and a polished nickel silver pin. Blade features a distal taper, tapered tang, radiused heel and spine.
Anchorage Forge by Gabe Fletcher –  Forged out a little longer and pulled the heel down. 10” long cutting edge with 2-1/8” heel. All carbon fiber faceted handle with G10 spacers. Used texturing dies on the power hammer to forge into the layers and forged in distal taper.

Devin Sheridan – My knife
contains a piece of a scale from the first knife I made for my daughter.

Mobula Laminae by Gerald Dodson – 8” Kiritsuke with asymmetrical “B” grind, Curly Koa and Carbon Fiber.
Jay Shervin –  Overall length: 13.5 inches. Blade length: 8.25
Handle material: bog oak, Bolster: brass & copper
Vandal Blades – – 7.5” / 190mm blade Damasteel “Drakkar”. 6061 Alloy handles with “Art Anno” by @ashleyannodizedit, DLC Stainless handle hardware 
Enceladus Cutlery by Evan Davis – 210 mm chef handled with a single piece curly narra bolster/frame and heirloom fit paper micarta. 
WINNER! Per’s Choice! Nessim by Eirik Nesheim – Santoku-style blade with Nessim’s signature handle. The custom made 13 mm black G10 halde scales are sculpted to fit the hand comfortably with a pinched grip. Stainless steel pins to match the unetched parts of the Damasteel

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