Yoshiaki Fujiwara and five Itinomonns

All knives from the last shippment finished.

Ironwood burl, Honduran rosewood burl and Bog oak.

First 180 and 210mm Itinomonn.

Yesterday I took two gyutos from the shop to finish up in the kitchen at home, if I had about 1-1,5h more in the shop before I had to leave... there would have been five of them in this post.

I made these with different handle shape, this shape does not force me to use as much rasps and files as the coke bottle versions do. Working with hand tools is fun for sure, but the motion gets pretty monotonous and takes a toll on upper back and my right elbow.

So this is somewhat of a compromise, another reason why this had to be done is that i'm getting a new schedule at work that lacks 24h shift = more days at work and less whole days in the shop.

Desert ironwood burl(top) and Honduran rosewood burl(bottom)

Second Yoshiaki Fujiwara - Kikuryu

Yesterday I finished these and shipped them to Denmark.

Yoshiaki Fujiwara - Kikuryu, desert ironwood burl

Shigefusa kitaeji 150mm petty, 2000 year old bog oak

First Yoshiaki Fujiwara - Kikuryu: done.

Ok, my WIP went as expected... a huge gap between last post and this, but I don't care I'm just very happy over how this one turned out! :)

Just fantastic!

To show the handle shape a bit better I took some phone-pics of it aswell. I use the fridge as a light bouncer when taking pictures, the trolley does not stay there at all time. :)

 

More WIP

Tracing the contours of the handle.

Cut on the bandsaw and holes for pins drilled.

Test fit, seems ok.

Brown/red pigment added to blend the glue with the wood

Shigefusa kitaeji 210mm gyuto

Here is a shigefusa kitaeji gyuto for a lucky customer of japanesenaturalstones.com.

Handle is desert ironwood burl and brass pins.

Shigefusa kitaeji 210mm gyuto.

And I drew "first blood" on it while reaching for a piece of cloth

Award that goes out to me for being stupid.

Some kind of WIP

I'm giving a work in progress a try, this is a Yoshiaki Fujiwara - Kikuryu that just got a notched brass bolster installed.

Hopefully i'll have an update for this later today.

Notched brass bolster.