D. Martell Gallery - Re-Handles

[Dave Martell]

How much do you hate me? :sofa:

It's that knife of hell I hate - not you.

 

[ecchef]

Here's what it looked like the first time around with Adam:



Scales moved around a bit, so I had Dave smooth it out.

Once it got here, within a month the wood was so warped it broke the epoxy bond.

Moral...Don't let anybody tell you that ebony doesn't need to or can't be stabilized!

Should be damn near bulletproof now! Thanks Dave. :ggodjob:

 

[Dave Martell]

All joking aside - thank you too Dave, it was a great learning experience.

 

[ecchef]

Just to be clear, I wasn't implying that Adam misguided me about the stabilization. That info came from the guy I got the wood from.

 

[Dave Martell]

Here's the first knife from the Hiromoto Group Buy #5

It's a 240mm gyuto with amobyna burl scales, black G10 liners, and stainless pins. The blade was etched but not thinned.

 

[El Pescador]

Great looking!

 

[Dave Martell]

Here's another group buy Hiromoto AS 240mm gyuto. This one was thinned & etched and has ancient kauri scales with copper/nickel silver mosaic pins.

The knife is shown here unsharpened because it was starting to rain so I snapped some pictures while I could, I'll sharpen it up before shipping.

 

[Dave Martell]

Here's a few more of the same knife....

 

[obtuse]

I think I will have to change myself.

 

[Dave Martell]

wait until you see the 210mm I'm working on. It came with a crazy pattern and then after thinning.....well.....it's even crazier.

 

[ThEoRy]

Here's a few more of the same knife....

Wow that's a great etch there. These things are great because of their uniqueness. No two are ever alike. Can't wait to see the 210. And of course I can't wait to see mine!!

 

[Dave Martell]

I just prepped your scales Rick.

 

[ThEoRy]

Teeheeeheeeheee

 

[DwarvenChef]

Dave these are looking good for sure

 

[Dave Martell]

Dave these are looking good for sure

Thanks!

 

[Dave Martell]

Here is Rick's 300mm Hiromoto AS Sujihiki in Butch's red 'n black mycarta. Liners are black G10, pins are copper/silver mosaic star. Blade was thinned & etched.

Rick wanted "blood red" scales, I think we got pretty close here.

*Note - The knife hasn't been sharpened yet.

 

[99Limited]

That suji looks Badddd Ass. Can't wait to see my two.

 

[Dave Martell]

That suji looks Badddd Ass. Can't wait to see my two.

Thanks and it won't be long for yours.

 

[TDj]

The Hiromoto AS 300 Sujis always look like instruments of war to me. Is it weird that the first thing I think of is a hobbit out of Lord of the Rings pulling that knife out to cleave a goblin in half?

 

[stopbarking]

Any pictures of that cool looking 210? No particular reason for interest. :whistling:

 

[Dave Martell]

Any pictures of that cool looking 210? No particular reason for interest. :whistling:

Not yet, it's the next Hiro up though.

 

[ThEoRy]

Here is Rick's 300mm Hiromoto AS Sujihiki in Butch's red 'n black mycarta. Liners are black G10, pins are copper/silver mosaic star. Blade was thinned & etched.

Rick wanted "blood red" scales, I think we got pretty close here.

*Note - The knife hasn't been sharpened yet.

I can't even... how do you... what the hell just... where do, how the...????

[video=youtube;ACKWK55Ic9M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACKWK55Ic9M[/video]

 

[sudsy9977]

Sick!....Ryan

 

[Dave Martell]

I shot a few more pictures of this knife after it was sharpened. I think these pictures show the surface texture of the blade a little better. I also thew in a couple of handle pics too, I couldn't resist.

 

[99Limited]

I would loved to have seen this knife in person. Some pictures make the red look brighter than others, but I'm wondering if it's actually darker like it shows in a couple of those pictures. BTW, what is mycarta?

 

[Dave Martell]

Hi Dan, the tone of the red is IMO somewhere between all the extremes shown in the pictures. I'd say it's more of a darker red than bright red.

"Mycarta" is what Butch calls his own version of micarta that he makes.

 

[99Limited]

"Mycarta" is what Butch calls his own version of micarta that he makes.

I've never seen micarta in person so I don't have a clue as to what it is. Some looks like a laminate of some kind and Butch's stuff looks like it's a mix of a colored resin, kind of like Jell-O, with colored fibers mixed in.

 

[SpikeC]

Boy-Howdy, that is one tasty piece of cutlery!

 

[Andrew H]

I've never seen micarta in person so I don't have a clue as to what it is. Some looks like a laminate of some kind and Butch's stuff looks like it's a mix of a colored resin, kind of like Jell-O, with colored fibers mixed in.

Here's a thread butch had on making some of his mycarta: http://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/showthread.php?1993-mycarta-burl

 

[Dave Martell]

I wanted to mention something about the cladding patterns on these knives and how it's uneven looking. That isn't something created by me through thinning, it's showing the pattern just how it came from the factory. Why it looks so dramatic is that I remove material which raises the pattern higher on the blade.

So on the above knife you see the left side as being ground more at the tip and heel, and more on the left than the right side, but an equal amount was removed along both sides to simply raise the cladding.

What I see is that I'm simply raising the pattern higher on the blade to reflect how it was ground already.