Home page for Michael Moses Lishinsky, blade smith,
for Wildfire Cutlery, Full Time for 42 years
I am working daily and taking commissions, which usually can be shipped w/in a week.
Prices for the parts I need to make my company chop (in the butt of my handles) have gone way up⇑. Epoxy, epoxy dyes, brass rods, brass round and square tubes all go into making my company chop and have risen to the point where I either have to raise my prices to cover the cost to make these, or think ‘out of the box’. My out of the box solution was to simplify my chop into something more affordable so I can avoid raising prices, which I would prefer not to do. Below find my solution. 4 mm hollow brass tube filled with black dyed epoxy. Two per handle. If you want fancier ‘decorative rivets on your custom made knife, that is available to order. Just ask and I will send you links to several options to order in. Please note, I can still use the old chop on your commission, just write me.
⇓ Below see new chop photo – more snaps coming soon. Click to enlarge ⇓ 
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. You can see the results on my steak knife page slide shows by ⇒ CLICKING HERE. ⇐
For Gant, I collaborated with Chris Bast { their in house genius design guru }, to design and make 150 – 2″ x 8″ kitchen knives for distributing free to the press and others during their fashion shows in New York and Paris. They were 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).
Please do cruise around my pages & slide shows, using the menu above and let me know if you see something you like.
⇒HERE is a link to an article about the remarkable win of Chef Kevin Wong at the S. Pellegrino Young Chef awards, Below see, photos of his commission in the slideshow, which he designed.
Various items I have made 2019 – 2020, as a slideshow.
