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How dare you attack me with truth.

We're a team of two. I put in about 50% of the work on these.

Amongst all of the kitchen knife makers out there, Ian is making some of the best. Upper echelon indeed, and an absolute professional at what he does.

I don't think there's any perfect solution - this is something I've been thinking about for years now. The inherent problem with auctions is that, aside from marketing them well, the seller has no control over how the market perceives the value. What if it was a piece that was way more...

Yes, they look like hammer marks left over. Not a big deal as long as they're not along the edge, more of an aesthetic preference thing if anything.

I won't watch. Maybe that'll change, but as of now I have no idea if they've made any real changes. My current understanding is they made a severe disservice to their cast and guests of color (to say the least), ignored the audience demanding they right their wrongs, and tried to sweep...

Honestly that's a steal for that outrageous blade.

I don't think enough people understand how much time truly goes into a business like yours. It's absolutely nuts. Love your work Jannis.

Assuming the same blades, a full-tang construction is almost always going to be heavier than the wa counterpart, especially with modern, stable materials vs the common Japanese lightweight woods. Ways to counteract that are the dimensions themselves (shorter and more narrow), tapered tangs...

Test it more on the edge in a diagonal motion (almost like you were sharpening the edge), rather than the flat of the blade. Try with a couple files you don't really care about as much, and compare them to examples that you know for sure have softer steel. Hardened steel still gets scratched...

They had such great potential and threw it in the burning dumpster. I like watching Kenji Lopez nowadays, and I've been pretty obsessed with Eater's Omakase series.

*sweating intensifies*

Eliane Leblanc, violin maker and restorer, part-time bladesmith.

Here's my take - most makers don't charge enough. I think Bryan's prices are extremely fair. When it comes to anything above $400, you're definitely hitting the point of diminishing return for performance. After that, hopefully hitting the minimum requirement for performance, you're paying for...

I browse here every now and then, I should chime in more. The standard I'm describing in machining and tolerancing is that 0.001" (aka a thou) is basically a standard. We use it for everything. If I make a guard for a knife as an example and 0.200" would be a perfect press fit, 0.199" would be...

What I'm saying though is that every increment of a thou is a physically intuitive and incredibly useful standard. One mm is useless for precision and one micron is too small (and apparently there's nothing in between those units...). Even 0.1mm is too large for intuitive machining operations.

No I'm not joking about the units. Here's an example: hole tolerancing. For a specific fit, the tolerance is often +/-0.0005", or half a thou, or 5 tenths. From a machining/manufacturing standpoint, that's a very easy standard to visualize and feel and a useful increment to work with. There...

Imperial is better for tolerances. Thousandths and tenths of thousandths of an inch are intuitive in manufacturing. Millimetres are not.

I'll be there

Keizo Shimamoto on making ramen.