Dan Pierson
Well-Known Member
I've mentioned my "stainless project" a couple of times in passing. Basically,
I decided to make a batch of kitchen knives out of stainless steel. Partly
because having to do precise grinds on a bunch of blades will help me progress.
Partly because my wife's fellow artists keep hoping that I'll show up at a show
and I never have any stock. Partly (heavily) because I decided to sleaze out
and let Brad at Peter's heat treat all of them instead of setting myself up for
cryo. But mainly because I like kitchen knives.
Initially decided to use AEB-L, first bought at 13C26 because Admiral had it
in 6' lengths at a good price. Found out those were all *bent* 6' lengths.
The Alpha Knife Supply started selling flat AEB-L in the right sizes. But they
also had .048 3V, which sounded good for parers and the fillet knife my wife's
cousin asked for. But no one seemed to have 1/16" AEB-L, which is right for
stainless parers. Couldn't find any but a kindly Baron did offer some 1/16"
CPM-S35VN... (Also some CPM-D2, but that's a later batch.)
This is getting a bit out of hand... Finally finished profiling everything
yesterday. The top left corner is rough ground 3V. The middle is
AEB-L (with couple of 13C26). The right is CPM-S35VN.
Total of 6 gyutos, 4 chinese cleavers, 5 santokus, 2 short carvers (us and
some friends I owe one to), 3 fillet knives, 20 parers in different shapes and
sized, 4 skinny little knives from scraps, and 4 non-kitchen small knives
from 1/8" 13C26.
Did I really decide to do all of this :52:
I decided to make a batch of kitchen knives out of stainless steel. Partly
because having to do precise grinds on a bunch of blades will help me progress.
Partly because my wife's fellow artists keep hoping that I'll show up at a show
and I never have any stock. Partly (heavily) because I decided to sleaze out
and let Brad at Peter's heat treat all of them instead of setting myself up for
cryo. But mainly because I like kitchen knives.
Initially decided to use AEB-L, first bought at 13C26 because Admiral had it
in 6' lengths at a good price. Found out those were all *bent* 6' lengths.
The Alpha Knife Supply started selling flat AEB-L in the right sizes. But they
also had .048 3V, which sounded good for parers and the fillet knife my wife's
cousin asked for. But no one seemed to have 1/16" AEB-L, which is right for
stainless parers. Couldn't find any but a kindly Baron did offer some 1/16"
CPM-S35VN... (Also some CPM-D2, but that's a later batch.)
This is getting a bit out of hand... Finally finished profiling everything
yesterday. The top left corner is rough ground 3V. The middle is
AEB-L (with couple of 13C26). The right is CPM-S35VN.
Total of 6 gyutos, 4 chinese cleavers, 5 santokus, 2 short carvers (us and
some friends I owe one to), 3 fillet knives, 20 parers in different shapes and
sized, 4 skinny little knives from scraps, and 4 non-kitchen small knives
from 1/8" 13C26.
Did I really decide to do all of this :52:
