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'Western' and 'Asian' inspired kitchen knives
These hand made high carbon tool steel kitchen knives are crafted and heat treated one knife at a time, by master blade smith Michael Moses Lishinsky, and have been since 1980. I use 1084 high carbon tool steel, just like in the old days. My knives are in kitchens all around the world. I ship to all English speaking countries (along with France, Sweden & Norway). I work for individuals and some major corporations creating unique one of a kind gifts.
Besides custom work, I make a line of western style kitchen knives and a line of Asian inspired kitchen knives. I also do restoration of old knives and armaments.
My designs are all time honored, affordable, guaranteed, original, lightweight and unique. Each kitchen knife has perfect balance, and is constructed with a full tang on the handle (a wood & steel sandwich).
I offer choices in your kitchen knife of different local eco-harvested hard woods, as well as stabilized woods which you choose.
All handles are finished with 2-4 coats of an oil/wax mixture, which is allowed to soak in between applications. The wax is Carnauba and Bees wax, 50/50.
All work is guaranteed. There are also various choices of handle construction and so many sizes and shapes of kitchen knives that I cannot mention all here. Hence this web site. So your cordially invited to cruise around my site, using the above blue drop down menu. There is a lot to read and see & it can give anyone a great basic education about carbon steel kitchen knives, and my work.
Que Aproveche
Below find two galleries from 2012-13
8" Santoku caught in the act of 'souping' it up, in West Yorkshire, UK.
Photo credits to S. Connelly.
Handle wood is rare local old old walnut, with white/black/white spacers.
knife costs $132, spacer array costs $35 = $167 9" x 2.5" with Walnut Wood
8" x 2.5" with flamed Maple wood.
Both have brass bolsters. My chop goes through the handle and is functional. It is made in 12� lengths and is comprised of
4 - 1/16 � brass rods, with a steel center, inside a 5/32nd square brass tube, which is inside a round aluminum tube. Red dyed epoxy is injected into the 12� tube, to hold all a-tanto. I then cut them down to about an inch and install. 2" x 8" kitchen knife with Black Walnut wood. This was designed by Chris Bastin, the lead designer for Gant Rugger in Stockholm. I produced over 150 of these kitchen knives for them. 2.5" x 8" walnut wood handle.
Photo Credit : Mr. Michael Scanlon Top piece is 8" x 2.5" kitchen knife with extra fancy handle.
$132 for the kitchen knife, $55 for the extra fancy upgrade = $187
Bottom piece 1" x 4" kitchen knife - $101
$76 for the knife, $25 for the fancy upgrade of 2 spacers = $101
Top piece handle has Claro Walnut with double chops, 1/8" thick brass spacer, green dyed stabilized California Buckeye then 1/8" black white spacers, and then a brass bolster with hidden brass rivets.
Bottom knife has a quilted Hard Rock Maple handle with black/white spacers.
Upgrades have been high speed polished with two grades of wax buff. Top: 8" x 2.5" extra fancy kitchen knife with west style handle with tiger stripe Claro walnut wood. Spacer array is brass bolster/white/black/stabilized. Maple burl/brass and the tiger striped walnut. Finished with wax/oil combo. Steel is 1/16th" thick high carbon tool steel. All handles are 5.25". Price - $187
Paring knife is $67
8" Santoku caught in the act of 'souping' it up, in West Yorkshire, UK.
Photo credits to S. Connelly.
Handle wood is rare local old old walnut, with white/black/white spacers.
knife costs $132, spacer array costs $35 = $167
5" x 1.5" fancy with stabilized Koa - $180
2" x 8" fancy with stabilized Koa - $199
3" fancy Thai Cleaver with stabilized Mango wood - $250
10" extra fancy kitchen knife with stabilized Mango - $260
7.25" fancy Boning Knife with stabilized Mango wood - $205 Top is 8" x 2.5" kitchen knife with Black Walnut and double brass bolsters. Bottom is Paring kife with the same wood. All woods shown are stabilized, top 4 knives are fancy and bottom in extra fancy.
Top down:
1.5" x 5" kitchen knife with Madrone Burl - cost $180
7.25" Boning knife with Black Oak Burl - $205
2" x 8" kitchen knife with Lace wood - $199
3" Thai Cleaver - with dyed Maple Burl - $250
10" kitchen knife , extra fancy with Amboyna - $260 Completed set. All have standard Western style Myrtle Wood Handles. On the left is an 8 piece steak knife set with 4" blades. There is also a serrated bread knife with a 9.5" blade ( without a bolster ) , a 10" kitchen knife 2.5" wide, a 3" by 8.5" Thai Cleaver, a 7" Santoku, a 5" Boning Knife, a 1" x 5" kitchen knife, a straight handled traditional Paring knife, a bent handled traditional Paring knife, and lastly a bent handled Birds Beak Paring knife. Each has 5 coats of orange oil as a finish. Carbon steel, with brass bolsters. Extra fancy kitchen knife, 8" x 2.5" with walnut wood then a brass spacer, ebony & black white spacer array. I copied a set of knives with standard western style handles, with stabilized black dyed eco-harvested Red Wood. For more photos taken during the process, → click here ←. Most knives above are 3/32nd" thick.
Above, left to right: 12" chefs knife, 12" slicer , 12" scimitar meat knife , 9" chefs knife, 2 - Santoku's
(one with stabilized Amboyna burl) , 9" filet, 6" scimitar shaped meat knife, 4" knife. Santoku's are 1/16" thick, the rest are 3/32nd" O-1 tool steel. Brass bolsters with hidden glued rivets, along with black dyed stabilized Redwood burl on the 5" handle which tapers from 1.25 to about 1" at the bolster. Finished to 400 grit, with Orange/Olive oil finish. Each blade is hand made and heat treated individually in Macadamia nut oil.
5" x 1.5" fancy with stabilized Koa - $180
2" x 8" fancy with stabilized Koa - $199
3" fancy Thai Cleaver with stabilized Mango wood - $250
10" extra fancy kitchen knife with stabilized Mango - $260
7.25" fancy Boning Knife with stabilized Mango wood - $205
Photo Gallery of Handle Choices
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Double Brass Bolsters with a high French polish on . If you want your knives to have double brass just order them as a normal order , and e-mail me of your wish . Cost for double brass is $40 extra per knife Extra fancy handle - 7" x 2.5" high carbon tool steel kitchen knife. The blonde handle wood is called Myrtle. Above the Myrtle is steel sheet , 1/2" stabilized Redwood burl insert, white and black spacers and then the brass bolster. Handle has brass 1/8" rivets as well as a company chop in the butt. The chop is a 1/4" tube filled with red dyed epoxy and brass rods and tubes. While the wood insert will vary from piece to piece, one can order this style of handle. E-mail or call me and we can discuss particulars. Other wood inserts I use are Ebony and various dyed stabilized woods. Asian style Hickory wood handle. English walnut wood on a western style handle. Fancy standard western style handle, with stabilized Box Elder Burl handle wood, with two 1/8" black and white spacer array. Close up, three spacers, 1/8" thick with Claro Walnut Western style handle with Rosewood. Extra Fancy Handle - $55.00 over price list cost
Stabilized Redwood with brass spacer, green dyed stabilized Box Elder Burl, and then white/black spacer array.
Double Brass Bolsters with a high French polish on . If you want your knives to have double brass just order them as a normal order , and e-mail me of your wish . Cost for double brass is $40 extra per knife
Facts about my kitchen knives
for the curious
The carbon steel I use is 1/16th or .062 inch thick (except for knives longer than 12�, which is 5/64� thick steel to prevent to much wiggling when done). The steel is 1084 cold rolled high carbon tool steel, which is heat treated one knife at a time, by me in my shop. I machine my knives, thereby saving the expense of forging a thick piece of steel down to the thickness of the steel I already use. Properly heat treated carbon steel, allows for a knife that will keep a keen edge, yet is noticeably easy to re-hone for a new keen edge. All the sweeps of the edges of my knives have the classic French curve, for that nice rocking motion and for ease of use and re-sharpening.
The brass bolster is riveted and glued onto the full tang, and is in between the handle and the blade. It serves to protect the end grain of the handle wood and adds the perfect weight to the handle. Handles generally measure out to about 5 � inches � �� leeway from the back of the blade to the bolster, 3/4" of brass and then 4 1/4" of wood.
All blade lengths are close but not exact. The handle is secured with 4 rivets, which are glued and pressed into place. There are three 1/8� brass pins, and a company chop in the handle �butt�.
My chop goes through the handle and is functional. It is made in 12� lengths and is comprised of 4 - 1/16 � brass pins, with a steel center, inside a 5/32nd square brass tube, which is inside a round aluminum tube. Red dyed epoxy is injected into the 12� tube, to hold all a-tanto. I then cut them down to about an inch and install.
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