These are prototypes, so I don't have any on the etsy shop yet, but I'm working on getting different varieties ready for the holiday shopping season.
The one on the left is made with maple, and the one on the right with HDPE. Woods tend to crack when being drilled, so I'd hoped the plastic would work better (and it does work beautifully), but adhesives don't like to stick to it. Fortunately I can make a silicone mold and do epoxy resin in any color.
So I think once I cast some, I'll start making some with different numbers of gems. Next up will be trans... I have some nice big acrylic gems for those.
Finally, I wanted to let you know I invested in a sharpening system that gets my blades wicked sharp.
My most recent commission. Based on the cherry blossom gyuto that's been so popular, this person asked for Hokusai's Great Wave Over Kanagawa on the blade, a seafoam green handle with blue and silver sparkly swirls, and the water tribe symbol on the handle.
It was a struggle... I poured eight resin blocks until I got one that satisfied both of us. I had to draw the right part of the wave image because the original isn't that wide. Where I usually use brass for the guard and pommel, this time I used nickel, which has a hardness closer to steel.
That said, I'm happy with how it turned out. If you think you'd like something like this, with (almost) any colors or design, gimme a shout.
My most recent knife is made to cut the wedding cake for a friend’s daughter. The handle is white resin coated with white mica powder, pinned with brass. The guard is also brass. The blade is polished stainless steel, engraved with a diamond drag bit on a CNC router.
It’s my third wedding cake knife, but I’d love to make more! If you know of a wedding coming up where the couple (or throuple!) would appreciate a customized blade like this, I’d be delighted to create one with you!
I've been working on this since May, in between other things. A big, butch Bowie knife with a mahogany handle, with a bas-relief of a rose.
I got a new little CNC router in April, and hopefully you've seen my Pride Signs that showed my first efforts on it. Well, since then I've been struggling to learn learning how to do 3D modelling to make this, which has been an idea I've had since I got the blade last year.
I'll be working on setting up a new web store for my not-Pride-related curios and knives. Until then, let me know if you like it! I take commissions too!
I can't believe I forgot to post this draft!
I did a couple of these custom kitchen knives for @ohforfucksakearethereanyurlsleft. I kinda dig the custom knife biz.
A couple of recent commissions. The rainbow kitchen knives (8" and 4") were requested by @ohforfucksakearethereanyurlsleft. After some trouble with shipping, the knives were finally received recently.
The other is a request based off the cherry-blossom knife I posted last time. This person liked the idea, but wanted to use violets from her grandmother's china pattern. So I drew those with a little extra to fill up the area. The handle is a marbled purple resin, and the bolster and pommel are brass. It's also smaller than the cherry blossom (6" instead of 9").
My pride pocket knives are doing all right, in terms of sales, but I could definitely stand to sell more. Would YOU be interested in custom kitchen cutlery?
Another cherry blossom knife. After the first one was featured by the YouTube channel Annika's Leaf, I received a few inquiries from people who wanted one just like it. This is my third after the original, and I was really lucky with the marbling on the handle, which was nearly a failure: the pink started to solidify too early.
I really enjoy making them, and if you would like one (or even a omething a little different) send me a note and we'll talk.
I...I uh... I made a video of how our pride pocket knives are put together, by hand, one at a time. This one's been hurried along, but you can watch it at regular speed with captions explaining what's happening on youtube.
And, as always, they're available at www.etsy.com/shop/FeelGoodFrens
the background music: gift wrapped caper by Analog By Nature (c) copyright 2009 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/22397
Today I finally finished this axe, which I started a year ago. I bought the blade on Etsy from a Pakistani forge. It came rough, with a black coating. I sanded and polished it to mirror finish.
The blade is decorated in both sides with images of Sköll and Hati, children of Fenrir, who eat the sun and moon at Ragnarok. I also added the text concerning these wolves from the Elder Edda, which i converted back to runes from a romanization of the ancient Icelandic.
The handle, made of oak, is hand-carved into the image of a beast as designed by @jonaslaumarkussen. I used this design and his analysis of the Ringerike viking style for my wolf drawings.
I just decided that I had to be done with this knife before I overworked it.
Brass, copper, steel, wenge wood. Old watch parts, screws, wire. I ground the convex blade by hand, and etched the filigree on both the blade and the copper part of the handle. The image inside the crystal was selected by the customer, and printed on polyester paper (so it's nice and waterproof.)
The locking mechanism, which includes a tiny spring, was a bitch to get right, but persistence pays off.
another commission, which I received after my last post. This is another kyalin knife, with more obvious symbolism. The RCPD badge is cut into the brass piece, while a crescent moon is cut into aluminum on the other. Also a pair of brass "scars" are inlaid into the green and black marbled resin on the Lin side.
Two more for the shop... LGBTQIA+ pride and Enby pride!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/FeelGoodFrens
The rainbow knife includes beautifully dark wenge wood at top and bottom, while the nonbinary is paired with mahogany.
Laguioles are so much fun to make.