Handmade Custom Knives
Handmade Japanese Kitchen knives
Survival knives. 4 1/2 and 7 inch edges.
Hand Forged Tools and Knives
Wilderness Knives
Wilderness survival knife and sheath equipt with a fire steel and sharpening stone. The Mountain Caribou Survival Knife. Custom handmade, hand forged knives.
Up-cycling and re-purposing quality carbon steels.
We live and work with the sun’s energy in the boreal forest, BC Canada.
https://aki-and-scott-fireweed.blogspot.com/2021/12/living-with-solar-power-for-25-years.html
Oil is the cheap energy source that is proving to be very expensive
A front yard sunset. Aki Yamamoto, Kai and Scott Richardson.
We make by hand,
Survival Knives
Bushcraft Knives
Kitchen Knives
Custom Hand Forged Woodcarving Tools
We forge high carbon saw blade steel from the lumber mills, an excellent steel to handcraft survival knives and woodcarving tools. Our knife and woodcarving tool materials come from the industry harvesting the boreal forest.
Living with the 4.6 billion year old nuclear reactor in the sky. https://aki-and-scott-fireweed.blogspot.com/2021/12/living-with-solar-power-for-25-years.html
Handmade Woodworking Tools
20 inch handmade timber framing chisels and a 30 inch long framing slick. Apple wood handles wrapped in a buckskin leather.
Custom handmade framing chisels cut from 5/16” headsaw blade steel, 520 mm long overall. The lumber mill blade was 5 feet in diameter. The slick is 29 inches overall. The blade was cut from 3/8” (9.5 mm) thick chipper blade. Tough quality high carbon steels.
Survival Knives
The Owl, wilderness survival knife. Handmade and forged.
Unique survival bushcraft knife, The Owl.
View the Owl survival bushcraft knife on the Mt. Caribou knife page.
Saw Blade Knives
Lumber Mill High Carbon Saw Blade Steel
Big head sawblades that bucked up big trees. 4 1/2 and 6 feet, 1100 and 1800 pounds with teeth. We remove the teeth when we get home.
Please visit a slide show, see the carbon steel we forge into blades.
Custom Survival, Bushcraft and Hunting Knives
Original designs. Working knives and tools. Each piece is a part of the boreal forest.
Handmade bushcraft survival knives. Cariboo Blades knife face. Manipulated patinas and images.
Handmade custom survival knife, Mt Caribou.
Custom handmade bushcraft knife set.
<- 7” hand forged blade with a 3/16” spine. An 8mm thick saw tooth is welded to the end of the tang for hammering, prying, digging, smashing and breaking. Spalted apple wood scales fastened to a tapered and hollow ground tang for balance. A short lanyard is provided with a copper lined lanyard hole. The sheath is double saddle stitched by hand. A leg tie tab is provided.
Handmade custom wilderness knife. Double saddle stitched by hand. Antler firesteel cinch. Pouch with double side dia stone. Locking lanyards.
Handmade brisket knife
Samurai Tanto style. Custom to order. 10 inch brisket knife with a 5 1/2” moose antler handle. Melted copper bolster. Please visit our Kitchen Knives index page.
Handmade Kitchen Knives
Custom Handmade kitchen knives
Handmade custom kitchen knife set
Custom heavy duty ulu. 1/4” single stem. Moose antler handle.
Unique handmade kitchen knives.
Patina is a form of oxidation. Protection against rust, sealing the steel. A bit of extra work and we leave the patinas and temper colours untouched on the finished blades created from the differential clay hardening and the differential temper. The patinas tell a story of how the knife has been made and where it’s from.
Handmade Cleaver with a 7” edge amd a 5 1/2” moose antler hamdle
In the short time we’ve lived isolated in the BC interior (since 1997) there have been many changes in the world. The one thing we have witnessed, watched and found ourselves powerless against is the insanity and recklessness of the people steering humankind.
Handmade Custom Knives for butchering.
Custom kitchen knives. Forged cleaver, heavy duty hand forged ulu and a 7 inch kitchen knife. Moose antler scales. Carbon steel cut from lumber mill saw blades.
The “working forest” (BC’s government) is 60 million hectares (149 million acres). A speck surrounded by crown land in the working forest is where we are.
We are Canadian custom knife makers.
Please visit our Process page.