Wildfire Cutlery

Michael Moses Lishinsky
 
Master Blade Smith
     Hand made Carbon Steel Kitchen Knives

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Santoku style kitchen knives

 

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


Current Santoku Prices

 
6 x 2.5 - $111 7 x 2.5 - $121 8" x 2.5 - $132 9 x 2.5 - $139

10 x 2.5 - $146


   In the last 20 years, I have gotten some Japanese/Asian inspired designs, and feel it is time I put a page together showing those designs. I do not work with forged Japanese style blue steel, but with high carbon tool steel. It is the kind that is used in the blue steel ‘sandwich’ in some classic Japanese style food knives. It is used in the middle as the cutting edge. I did not and will not 'copy' designs, but have adapted them for westerners tastes and uses. Santoku knives generally have the back in line with the handle and are not as long as I make them. If you want an Asian style handle as seen below, write me a note with your order. 


Below - 10" Santoku, made from 5/64" thick O-1 tool steel with a western style Hickory handle. Handle has three 1/8" rivet pins and one custom red-dye filled 1/4" tube which serves as my company chop.


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David's Hand Made Custom Set


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3 other photos and views :  HERE and HERE and
HERE

All woods shown are stabilized, top 4 knives are fancy and bottom in extra fancy.

Above:  top down ~ 1.5" x 5" kitchen knife with Madrone Burl
7.25" Boning knife with Black Oak Burl
2" x 8" kitchen knife with Lace wood
3" Thai Cleaver - with dyed Maple Burl
10" kitchen knife , extra fancy with Amboyna


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Above: Santoku style kitchen knife with western style standard handle. 7 inches long, 2.5 inches wide and 1/16th inch thick. The word Santoku has Japanese historical significance meaning 'three virtues', and a Santoku knife wears its name quite proudly, with its marvelous chopping, dicing and mincing abilities. Typically, a Santoku knife ranges in sizes from 5" to 7" in blade lengths but I make them 8", 9" and 10 ".
 The handle has a Rose Wood. It can also comes in an Asian style, see an example below.



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Top : 8"  2.5" extra fancy kitchen knife
Bottom: 1.25" x 5" extra fancy kitchen knife
A
bove: highly figured Claro Walnut wood on the handle bottom, then brass sheet, then
stabilized black dyed recycled Redwood burl, white/black spacers and brass bolsters.
Handle is 5.25" long, steel is high carbon tool steel, with brass 1/8" pins and a company chop in the handle.
 


Below: Top is 8" x 2.5" kitchen knife with extra fancy handle and 1" x 4" kitchen knife
Top piece handle has Claro Walnut with double chops, 1/8" thick brass spacer, green dyed stabilized California Buckeye
then 1/8" black white spacers, and then a brass bolster with hidden brass rivets.

Bottom has a quilted Hard Rock Maple handle with black/white spacers.
Upgrades have been high speed polished with two grades of wax buff.



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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.


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 Below: 7" Santoku with standard Asian style handle, with Rose Wood.


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Above: Standard Asian inspired handle .
This cost of this style handle is inclusive in standard handle choice .
Left photo handle wood is Stabilized Amboyna, and right is Myrtle Wood
 


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Above : 7" Santoku with Myrtle wood with standard western style handle. Orange oil finish.
 



Fancy standard western style handle, with stabilized Box Elder Burl wood with two 1/8" black and white spacers ~ brass/white/black/ handle wood.

  Below- three spacers, 1/8" thick with Claro Walnut

                                   
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Above: green dyed stabilized Buckeye burl wood with B/R/B 1/8" spacers

 



Above : Double Brass Bolsters with a high French polish on . If you want your knives to have double brass just order them as a normal order , and e-mail me of your wish . Cost for double brass is $35 extra per knife .


                                                     
 
Left (click to enlarge) : Extra fancy handle - 7" x 2.5" high carbon tool steel kitchen knife. The blonde handle wood  is called Myrtle. Above the Myrtle is steel sheet , 1/2" stabilized Redwood burl insert, white and black spacers and then the brass bolster. Handle has brass 1/8" 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 or call me and we can discuss particulars. Other wood inserts I use are Ebony and various dyed stabilized woods.

 

 



Above: Madrone wood handles
 


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