D. Martell Stainless available for Martell Knives!

[Dave Martell]

Starting in mid to late April we'll have on hand CPM-154 blanks for all current Martell knife configurations. Rc 61-62 with cryo. This heat treat is pushing this steel to the max performance.


Now we can offer carbon & stainless knives in either western or wa configurations. :doublethumbsup:

 

[apicius9]

Nice, I better start living on ramen and save up for it...

Stefan

 

[icanhaschzbrgr]

Cool! Not often do we see kitchen knives made from CPM steels here on KKF.

 

[Von blewitt]

I'm looking forward to this.

 

[Dave Martell]

I like the enthusiasm.

 

[KCMande]

Nice, I better start living on ramen and save up for it...

Stefan

Maybe you could make me a handle for one of Dave's stainless sujihiki so you don't have to eat ramen every day

 

[ecchef]

Every time I promise myself I'm done buying knives......
ENABLER!!

 

[Dave Martell]

I just do what I can. :dance:

 

[ecchef]

Can you squeeze me in ahead of Ryan?

Just kidding!!!!

 

[Fran Rendina]

Looking 4ward to that 270 k tip stainless

 

[Dave Martell]

Can you squeeze me in ahead of Ryan?

Just kidding!!!!

I'm not touching that. :biggrin:

 

[Dave Martell]

Looking 4ward to that 270 k tip stainless

Me too!

 

[Dave Martell]

CPM-154 is at the waterjet cutter man's place! :spiteful:

 

[Dave Martell]

I forgot to post that I have the blanks here, for about a week now I'd guess. This represents one sheet of CPM-154....

 

[apicius9]

Tricky to get a wa handle on those

Stefan

 

[Von blewitt]

Cool!

 

[Dave Martell]

Tricky to get a wa handle on those

Stefan

LOL Yeah, I get the blanks in western form and grind down the tangs when required. I lose some steel but I gain by not having to stock double patterns. Although....I will likely change the patterns to all of them having wa tangs in the future and save the steel loss since I am not doing full tangs anymore anyways. I have been meaning to do this but it's a lot of work for both myself and the waterjet guy.

 

[apicius9]

So you will go with the 'fake' Western handles exclusively? I look forward to seeing how these stainless ones turn out. If you need to experiment, I'll take one - if you need money for it, make one for somebody else, I only pay in koa

Stefan

 

[Von blewitt]

I'll take a Stainless Martell with a Keller Koa handle

 

[Dave Martell]

So you will go with the 'fake' Western handles exclusively?

Yeah....full tang is a lot of extra work, especially when the tangs (unlike Japanese knives) are hardened. It's just not worth the extra effort. Plus, I appreciate the blade forward shift in weight I get from going with a hidden tang.