Thread: Kitchen knife in Wootz, half integral, with ammoth molar and mammoth ivory handle

I tend to just add stuff to my 'work in progress' thread but I feel this one deserves its ow thread. It is a half integral wootz kitchen knife. 8" chef. I prefer this design for kitchen knives. It is more work to forge the transition into the handle like this, but the upside is that there are no seams at all. I got tips for the handle construction from Gunther Lobach from Scorpiodesign.

The wootz was from an ingot smelted by Krzysztof Rusek. It was a pleasure to work with. The pattern on this blade came out nicely. The bolster material is stabilized mammoth molar from Mermaid Supplies. And the handle is mammoth tusk, stabilized with colored casting resin.

The reason I am so proud of this knife is that this is the first time I made a kitchen knife that really turned out the way that I wanted it to turn out. From handle to bolster transition to etching. If I could have 1 kitchen knife to show to someone and say 'this is what I do' then it would be this one. I put off etching it for a while because of apprehension at whether the pattern would reveal properly or not. But today was the day, and I am happy.