Custom Handmade Japanese Style Knives
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Up cycled from spent lumber mill saw blade. Molybdenum, nickel, chromium steel. Quality carbon steel.
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Aki Yamamoto and Scott Richardson are Cariboo Blades. The company was created in 1997.
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We utilize Japanese knife shapes. We build our knives to last generations using our own methods of construction with art and soul in mind.
Hand Forged Japanese Style Knives
Paring Knife... 90 mm blade, 3 mm spine, 115 mm handle. The bolster is a piece of fellar buncher chain saw bar held with copper, The moose antler scales are lined with juniper wood.
Unique Handmade Gyuto from the Chilcotin... 175 mm forged carbon steel blade, 4.5 mm spine. 150 mm handle. Moose antler scales lined with juniper wood held with stainless threaded pins, peened over. Chainsaw bar bolster welded with copper.
Custom Handmade Deba... 1/4 inch spine with an Antler Handle Smaller deba knife with a 4” blade and a 4” moose antler handle.
Handmade Gyuto
High carbon steel from lumber mills. 8” full tang blade, walnut scales and copper rivets. We manipulate the patinas with clay and glass and leave them for rust protection.
All our knives carry a lifetime guarantee on craftsmanship and materials. You can ship the knives back to us for sharpening - the sharpening is on us.
Chilcoltin Petty Knife A 150 mm differential tempered blade. Juniper wood handle held with copper pins peened over. The piece of fellar buncher chain saw bar bolster is fastened with copper.
Handmade Walnut and Copper Sandoku
A wide 7 inch long blade, bevelled on one side. Melted copper bolster. 4.5 mm spine.
Handmade Japanese Knives
The heavy duty cleaver and ulu are set in apple wood blocks. The sandoku and gyuto have 7 inch blades with moose antler handle scales.
These knives are part of the Copper Universe set.
Handmade Yo-deba
Beveled on one side or both. This knife has a 7” full tang blade 3/16 thick high carbon steel. The handle is 5” long and has moose antler scales.
Manipulated patinas using clay, glass and heat during the heat treating process reflect the images of the wetlands we live in. The patinas add a protective barrier against rust.
Custom Gyutou, Juniper Wood Handle
Full Tang 10” blade with Juniper wood scales.
Handmade Deba, Juniper Wood handle
Smaller 4” blade deba knife.
Handmade Custom Slicing Knife, Kitchen Sujihiki Slicing Knife
7” full tang blade, 2.5 mm spine. plum wood scales.
Brisket Knife
10 inch blade, long handle with moose antler scales and a saw tooth butt.
Vegetable Chopper, Japanese / Chilcotin Style
Apple wood handle, copper ferrule, 125mm long forged carbon steel blade, 3/16 inches spine.
Handmade Custom Gyutou / Chef Knife
1/8” thick spine, full tang 8.5” blade with a wide bevel, brass guard with plum wood scales.
Handmade Hankotsu / Boning knife, Plum Wood Handle.
A 6” full tang blade with plum wood scales, copper rivets. The brass guard is followed by leather, antler and copper inserts. The blades are hardened and tempered for the task at hand. We go back into the blades, differentially tempering the spine from the edge.
Chef Knife Set for Camp
Walnut scales, copper, brass, antler and lumber mill carbon steel. Chef knives built tough for the back country
Custom Made Nakiri
High carbon steel we recover from BC lumber mills in our area. A thicker apple wood handle made for a chef with a touch of arthritis. Custom made. 175 mm blade length.
Handmade Custom Nakiri, Chilcotin Cherry Wood
Vegetable chopping
Chilcotin Hankotsu Knives
4” full tang blades, 1/8” spines. Tough boning knives. with wood or antler handles.
Custom Handndmade Knife Roll
A tough and strong knife roll for cooks and chefs.
Handmade Deba Knives Long cherry wood handles. 90 mm blades held with a coppers ferrule. 4.5 mm spines.
Cariboo Blades Line of Chilcotin Japanese Influenced Cutlery
Japanese slicing knife