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SALE - 10% off all knives
(except knives with stabilized woods)
May 25 thru June 21st, 2013
→Simply e-mail me ← with details of your order,
and the discount will be taken off total order amount,with an invoice.
All
Contact Info - HERE
These hand made high carbon tool steel kitchen knives have been crafted and heat treated one knife at a time, by
master blade smith Michael Moses Lishinsky, since 1980.
My knives are in kitchens all around the world. I ship to all English speaking countries and work for 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.
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 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.
photo credit: Mr. Michael Scanlon
3 shots below : 8" Santoku caught in the act of 'souping' it up, in West Yorkshire, UK.
Handle wood is rare local old old walnut, with white/black/white spacers. click picture to enlarge
**Photo credits - S. Connelly
Two Custom sets below
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David's Set
top down:
1.5" x 5" kitchen knife
with
stabilized Madrone Burl
7.25" fancy Boning knife with stabilized Black Oak Burl
2" x 8" fancy kitchen knife with stabilized Lace wood
3" fancy Thai Cleaver - with dyed stabilized Maple Burl
10" extra fancy kitchen knife with stabilized Amboyna
3 other photos and views :
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Robert's Set
Top down:
5" x 1.5" fancy with stabilized Koa
2" x 8" fancy with stabilized Koa
3" fancy Thai Cleaver with stabilized Mango wood
10" extra fancy kitchen knife with stabilized Mango
7.25" fancy Boning Knife with stabilized Mango wood
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Here are a few key
basic pages to make sure to view:
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My Current Price List
Handle information page
Shipping Information &
Lots of knives are available on the 'Current Items Available' page
Below:
a set of kitchen knives. Steel is 1084 1/16th" thick high
carbon tool steel.
top: is 8" x 2.5" kitchen knife with double brass bolsters
and double 1/4" decorated rivets. The
handle is burled Claro walnut with wax finish, western
style handle.
bottom: 3" traditional Paring knife with walnut handle.
Handle is 5.25" long.
For prices, see price list.
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Above, handle shot from a 10" x 2.5" kitchen knife with
western style handle with Hickory wood.
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Above: 7" x 2.5" high carbon tool steel kitchen knife,
with western style extra fancy handle. The blonde handle
wood is called Myrtle. Above the Myrtle is brass sheet,
then a piece of 1/2" stabilized Redwood burl used as a
spacer insert, then white/black spacers and lastly the
brass bolster. Always comes with a high French polish.
The myrtle section of the handle has 1/8" brass
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 me with your choice and I will send an invoice,
or call me and we can discuss particulars . Other wood
inserts I use are Ebony and various dyed stabilized woods
such as highly figured Maple, Amboyna and Box Elder.
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Above: 8" kitchen knife
with from left to right: rosewood, brass sheet, ebony,
white and black spacers. This is called an extra fancy
handle, western style ( as opposed to Asian style handle).
I use strictly high carbon tool steel that
is 1/6th inch thick.
The handle
wood above is Rose Wood, then brass sheet, then is ebony,
a white/black spacer and lastly the brass bolster. The
knife back, the heel and the front of the bolster is
softened, edge is razor sharp and of course the steel, is
as good a tool steel as there is on the market today.
Each kitchen knife is personally hardened in my
shop, and drawn to a straw yellow, in an electric oven. I
use Macadamia Nut oil to harden. Handle is finished with a
combo of Orange/Olive Oil. If you want a handle like this,
e-mail me and ask for the extra fancy handle, along with
the blade size.
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Above :
8" x 2.5" kitchen knife with fancy
western style 'fancy' handle, with stabilized Box Elder
Burl wood.
Above left : an example of a standard shaped handle with
Rosewood.
Above right: Madrone handles. (click
to enlarge)
Bottom : Asian style kitchen knife handle with Myrtle
Wood. I am slowly running out
of Myrtle, and will over time be replacing with Madrone.
To view all handle choices and ordering info,
click here.
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In the photo above, 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
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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.
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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.
