Home page for Michael Moses Lishinsky, blade smith,
for Wildfire Cutlery, Full Time for 43 years
20 piece steak knife set – see boxed set below ⇓
This project was commissioned by the client who designed almost all of it. I created the edge tools and cabinet maker Jens Sehm designed and make the boxes.
The edge tools: 4 units have bed spacers, all bolster spacers have varied materials and arrays, blade stock 1095 hcts, brass bolsters. Size blades are left to right: 1″ x 4″, 2″ x 4″ Steavers, 1.25″ x 5″ and 1″ x 5″. Some blades have thicker tool steel. Boxes have slide on tops, and strong magent that hold the blades in place. Interior is lined with leather. Wood finish is lacquer.
Steavers designed by NIKU Chef Dustin Falcon .
Handle Woods left to right:
Eco-harvested Bubinga, Padauk, Palinar wood, Big Leaf Maple, Padauk, stabilized (stab.) Walnut, stab. Madrone, stab. Afzelia, stab. dyed Black Ash Burl, stab. Vietnamese Rosewood, stab. Oak, stab. Box Elder Burl, stab. Eastern Sugar Maple Burl, Yew Wood, Big Leaf Maple, Palinar Wood and Black Walnut. This set also has two custom made burled walnut with embedded magnets holding the blades in place.
Click each photo tp enlarge in separate page.
Slide show below; 5 photos of client designed commission from brilliant Chef Kevin Wong. The set was part of his competing for the S. Pellegrino Young Chef awards, & ⇒HERE is a link to an article about his remarkable win.
I am a full-time maker of hand made high carbon steel Western and Asian inspired kitchen knives. Most of my time is spent on commission work, but when I have time, I make kitchen knives to my own designs and techniques, and ⇒list them on my kitchen knives in stock page⇐. Using my masters degree in individualized education in combination with my skills as a blade smith, I can create unique collaborative one of a kind pieces for clients from all around the world.
I have collaborated on design concepts and then created work for and with chefs and corporations such as Gant Rugger, fine Michelin starred restaurants in San Francisco such as Birdsong & Atelier Crenn, Chef Pynt at Burnt Ends in Singapore and many others.
Below: set designed in collaboration with Atelier Crenn in San Francisco. click to enlarge.
For in depth look Atelier Crenn, see this magazine article; ⇒ HERE
For Gant Rugger based in Stockholm, I collaborated with Chris Bast { their in house genius design guru }, for the design and making of 150 – 2″ x 8″ kitchen knives, for distributing (among other gifts) free to the press and other guests, during their fashion shows in New York and Paris.
They were all shipped to Stockholm where they were laser etched w/ Gant’s name and logo, and then each was matched with a custom box. For media articles about this collaboration,⇒ see a few articles on this PAGE, at the bottom.
I really enjoy the process of collaboration and offer this design process free to any and all interested clients, for one piece or a larger commission. You can read and absorb this whole site or just ⇒ contact me ⇐ with your ideas and we can easily hash out a design plan and cost for your custom kitchen knife (knives). Happy to call you as well- just send me an email.
Please do cruise around my pages & slide shows, using the menu above and let me know if you see something you like.
Various items I have made 2019 – 2022, as a slideshow. 2nd slide show at bottom.
