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Custom Hand forged, High Carbon Working Knives & Tools
Images and Art from the Chilcotin, British Columbia, Canada
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We guarantee your complete satisfaction with the materials and workmanship on all our tools and knives. All our knives can be sent to us to be sharpened. The sharpening is on us
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Aki Yamamoto & Scott Richardson
Aki's images on handmade cards inspired by living where we do.
Original Art
by Aki Yamamoto
Spalted apple scales with a moose antler guard, recovered lumber mill high carbon saw steel and stainless pins make up this custom knife. The blade is 8", 20cm long. Hardened and differentially tempered to be tough and strong. It keeps a razor edge.
Custom Chef Knives
Please visit our Kitchen Knives catalogue.
Please visit Aki's card catalogue.
Please visit our Ulus page and the
Camp knives - The Caribou Knife.
-tough knives
The Caribou knife has a handforged, differentially tempered, 6", 15 cm full tang blade. The tang has been hollow ground for balance.
A 5mm spine runs through the guard and tapers into the walnut handle.
A piece of a timber processer blade, the slot of which has been filled with silver, makes up the guard. 5 threaded stainless pins
and a threaded copper lanyard insert secure the scales.
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Garden Knives -professional working knives
These knives were made for Mackin Creek Farm. An organic farm run by Rob Borsato and Cathie Allen.
Handforged from 15n20 and L6 saw blade steels we've recovered. Hardened and differentially tempered garden tools. Tough knives that keep a razor's edge.
Rob and Cathie deliver 100 boxes of organic vegetables a week in their box a week program. Pillars of the Quesnel Farmer's Market they work hard to supply people with the finest food.
The Zucchini knife has a long neck for reaching into lettuce and Zucchini plants. With two razor edges and an extreme point, it is a precision tool.
We made two broccoli knives for Mackin Creek Farm. One from 1/8" lumber mill bandsaw for general broccoli duties. The second heavier from L6 saw blade for heavier chores. It is a chopper.
The original garden scorp. Cherry wood handle and a high carbon steel blade. It keeps a razor edge. Just a great tool. It can be used as a wood carving tool as well. There are cheap imitations out there so don't be fooled.
Cariboo Blades Tools & Knives
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The stainless steel pins and copper lanyard insert are threaded, screwed and peened into the stablized maple tiger scales and antler.
An 8" long full tang blade, brass guard, copper inserts with an Elk antler butt with a lanyard hole lined with copper.
A Maple Tiger Fillet Knife
We recover this steel from a local machine shop. The fillet knife has a 1 mm thick spine. A difficult steel to work with but after our heat treatment, hardening and differentially tempering, it holds a great razors edge. Flexible and sharp.
Its flex allows you to get the maximum meat . We use a similar knife in our kitchen slicing vegetables, especially tomatoes.... great bread knife. When we process deer and moose this style of knife is invaluable.
Please visit our Hunting Knives catalogue.
Bushcraft Sets
- a knife, adze and crooked knife
The knife has a 3 1/2" full tang Kirsten blade, HK13 forged from recovered D2 steel (planer blade)and a Maple Tiger handle (HK22): brass guard pinned and brazed, copper and antler inserts, stabilized tiger maple scales, a moose antler butt with a copper lanyard insert. The pins and lanyard insert are threaded, screwed and peened.
The D2 blade is hardened and differentially tempered and finished with a powder black finish.
The adze head and hook knife are both hand forged from recovered L6 steel. Hardened and differentially tempered. Both have hand carved cherry wood handles.
Field Sets
-Nessmuck/Mountainman, Ulu, Boning/Slicing knife.
Created to do most chores in the woods and in the field. A versatile camp knife capable of splitting wood, shaving tinder, digging a fire pit or chopping small wood to make camp furniture before using it to prepare your meal.
The 6" full tang blade is hand forged, hardened and differentially tempered from recovered high carbon L6 steel. Threaded stainless steel pins are screwed into crabapple wood scales through the tang and then peened. The moose antler butt is held with a threaded copper lanyard insert and 2 threaded pins.
The scabbard is hand stitched and sewn from 8oz. leather fashioned with leather ties, for knife security, and a leg tie mount sewn into the back of the sheath.
Accompanying the Wiseman was a Bianca style ulu with a cherry wood handle and a Chilcotin boning knife with spalted apple wood scales. Both blades are recovered lumber mill bandsaw steel, hardened and differentially tempered to hold a razor slicing edge.
Using an ulu in the field or kitchen is an experience not to be missed.
We made this universal style kitchen knife for Rosa's mother. It has a full tang 8" high carbon steel blade made from lumber mill bandsaw blade The guard is forged and laminated copper and brass. The handle has antler and copper inserts with yew wood scales screwed together with threaded stainless pins. They will not separate from the tang, ever. Hardened and differentially tempered to hold a razor
edge.
This walnut set of three chef knives with band saw and gang saw blade steel is held in a custom apple wood knot block.
Custom Bushcraft Knife Set
-Kootenai & Wiseman
The Kootenai, HK01, has a hand forged, recovered planer
blade, D2 steel,
4 3/4" blade. Both knives tangs are hollow ground to attain
perfect balance. The guard, a piece of chainsaw bar with the
slot filled with silver, accompanied by copper inserts.
A piece of British Columbia's cut forest.
The Kootenai was supplied with 2 sheaths. One at 70 degrees to be worn at the front, and a standard Kootenai lace sheath. (Click on picture)
The Wiseman has a 6" recovered L6 steel blade. Pacific Northwest yew scales with a moose antler butt held with a titanium lanyard insert that is threaded screwed through the tang and peened.
The 8 oz. leather sheath is handstitched, equipped with a copper lined paracord hold, a leg tie and braided lanyard system for one-handed use and absolute security of the knife in its sheath.
Please visit our Adze page.
Paring Knives
- utility knives
Paring knives that fit in your hand... an extension of your arm, tough, strong and aesthetically pleasing. We make them paper thin or thick.
Tough enough to sheath and bring as a knife for a hike or hunt. Strong enough to carve wood with and hold a razor edge. Aki and I have made at least 25 different styles. These 3 are the most popular blade shapes.
Broken Island
Odd Job's
Carolyn
Chilcotin
Handforged, hardened and differentially tempered.
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