Johan Grönstedt
instagram.com/magnicustom/
As probably a lot of you guys I came to making knives as a creative outlet.
I like the process around making knives, choosing steels, handle materials and now lately also the photography of a knife.
From some colleagues I got the feedback that they would like to see some behind the scenes content on my insta - I liked the idea but felt that my shop environment is really rather dirty and not very inspiring... There the idea of a stop-motion movie was born. Honestly took me more time to create the video versus the knife, but really fun learning new techniques!
This whole project is a gem of a story, one of those come from behind big-wins.
Let me present the little knife that could, the one that defeated all odds.
It came out so much better than I went in.
Originally the billet was intended for a different, much larger knife. But sometimes skill and ambition are two different things and the steel had to take a time-out.
I was not angry, I was disappointed.
But every time I would plan a new project, the mangled little thing kept looking at me, longing for its chance for redemption. Promising to behave, if given the chance.
That got me thinking, I had some other material in the “didn’t really do what I wanted pile” of the workshop. Some Cocobolo wood that kept eating sandpaper since before my BIG grinder-days and some really over the top glitterly inlay stuff that never really ended up looking the way that I hoped it would...
A plan was forming. The redeemer was born.
In a way it assembled itself, much as in the stop motion thingie that no joke took longer than the knife to make…
★ Tall Utility Knife, 16cm blade, 28cm with handle, 45 mm at heel
★ Steel: Stainless Damascus VG10 core at HRC 60
★ Handle: Cocobolo with sparkling wonderful tapered inlay
I like the process around making knives, choosing steels, handle materials and now lately also the photography of a knife.
From some colleagues I got the feedback that they would like to see some behind the scenes content on my insta - I liked the idea but felt that my shop environment is really rather dirty and not very inspiring... There the idea of a stop-motion movie was born. Honestly took me more time to create the video versus the knife, but really fun learning new techniques!
This whole project is a gem of a story, one of those come from behind big-wins.
Let me present the little knife that could, the one that defeated all odds.
It came out so much better than I went in.
Originally the billet was intended for a different, much larger knife. But sometimes skill and ambition are two different things and the steel had to take a time-out.
I was not angry, I was disappointed.
But every time I would plan a new project, the mangled little thing kept looking at me, longing for its chance for redemption. Promising to behave, if given the chance.
That got me thinking, I had some other material in the “didn’t really do what I wanted pile” of the workshop. Some Cocobolo wood that kept eating sandpaper since before my BIG grinder-days and some really over the top glitterly inlay stuff that never really ended up looking the way that I hoped it would...
A plan was forming. The redeemer was born.
In a way it assembled itself, much as in the stop motion thingie that no joke took longer than the knife to make…
★ Tall Utility Knife, 16cm blade, 28cm with handle, 45 mm at heel
★ Steel: Stainless Damascus VG10 core at HRC 60
★ Handle: Cocobolo with sparkling wonderful tapered inlay
that's brilliant 
