Welcome to the show!
You ordered the steel, your listened to the podcast – and now we’re highlighting your incredible work below in a gallery of the submissions. On March 25th we will be releasing the newest billets of for the #DamasteelBuildalong exclusively through Maritime Knife Supply. Participants have until November 1, 2024 to work on their culinary knives with this year’s billet and then submit a single picture for judging.
Two winners will be chosen each year, one chosen by Per Jarbelius, Iron Master at Damasteel, and the other chosen by the team at Knife Talk (Craig Lockwood, Geoff Feder and Mareko Maumasi) – winners of the #DamasteelBuildalong will be announced at the end of the Damasteel Chef Invitational on November 16, and contacted via email.
If you haven’t yet, register for free entry to this year’s virtual DCI2024 to gain access to the #DamasteelBuildalong session to show off your knife with other makers and talk about the process.
#DamasteelBuildalong – Past Submissions
5” utility knife, with stacked black and Tiffany blue G10.
5.2″ Petty knife featuring a jade G-10 frame handle with pink G-10 liners and a dyed/stabilized curly maple set of scales. Stainless steel corby bolts hold it all together.
6” Utility.Forged/Etched Bronze. with Curupay Wood.
Petty Knife with Olive Wood, Olive Paper Micarta Bolster and Hunter Green G10 spacer | Friction held Olive Wood Saya
Inspired by Japanese whale shaped knives
Kitchen utility/petty knife with peened brass “eye” and quilted maple handle.
Handle: Bog Oak Fat Carbon Gold as the centre scale dragon head and front spacer. Makers Mark: Dragon’s eye GHK mosaic pins
Dimensions:: 285.75mm Cutting Edge: 127mm Weight: 120 grams
The knife is a petty chef with an Asian inspiration. It has a cutting edge of 5.5″ (@14cm). The handle is sculpted Honduran Ebony with a vintage paper micarta bolster.
Forged san-mai with a core of 1095 carbon steel. and cladding inl Vinland, and Damasteel Munin. Handle is flame-birch.
Total length: 220mm Blade length: 110mm Blade height: 48mm
Maple burl and quilted maple scales by Flying Shark Scales. 1/3 tang with an invsible carbon fiber spacer from b.kohn
Brute de forge Damasteel – Cutting edge – 8” and Heel Hight – 1-5/8” – Handle – Facetted Western (Maumasi Style) Stabilized Mango wood with gold flaked carbon fiber bolster. Silicon Bronze and G10 Spacer. Forged in tang, distal taper, heel height, and length.
The handle is wrought iron from an 7ft anchor pulled up in a net off the coast of Newport RI.
The Copper used for the pins was from the grounding straps for 300ft comms tower that was damaged in hurricane Katrina. Buckeye burl wood with a mother of pearl inlay. Wrought iron blade “slot” made on mill then press fitted hot.
