Gallery | DP Custom Knives

Because my work is constantly changing I've included the last few photos from my Instagram.

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This 7 second reel took way too long to make 😵‍💫 creating content doesn’t come natural to me but these knives are pretty good ☠️

Taking a short break from Honaykis to regain some

Taking a short break from Honaykis to regain some sanity 🛀🏽

Stainless is so straight forward. Just follow the recipe (austenize, quench, LN2 soak/temper cycle x 2) and it’s the same result every time. This is RWL34, which is my favourite stainless steel - I can hit this hardness or any other all day long. You also have the luxury of grinding post HT which pretty much eliminates warpage and saves so much time.
No wonder this is all did for the first 5 years of making knives - virtually fool proof.

With Honyakis, you need to grind pre HT as much as possible as you want to keep the activity of the hamon - grinding post HT can effect ashi and at times even habouchi/boundary. Chasing super pronounced hamon activity results in warpage which most of the time can be addressed successfully but it takes time and lots of swearing.
Honyakis are also super finicky and far from repeatable (at least for me). There is lots of prep required and even if you are putting 2 identical knives through HT with every factor being controlled (stress relief/normalisation protocol, steel thickness, grind height and finish, clay viscosity, clay application thickness, austenizing temp and time, oil/water temp, quench time, ambient temp) you can end up with 2 very different results. Yep, I need a little break from Honyakis. 🤕

Fly by of the latest Honyakis☠️ Honyakis are

Fly by of the latest Honyakis☠️

Honyakis are the toughest knives for me to make so it feels especially good when they work out as planned.

Heading to @chefsedgeau

240mm Honyaki Gyuto☠️ Arizona Desert Ironwood

240mm Honyaki Gyuto☠️
Arizona Desert Ironwood + Ukrainian Bog Oak

Heading to @chefsedgeau

#honyaki #hanfmade #chef #cooking

230mm Honyaki Honesuki 🌊 Ukrainian Bog Oak + Os

230mm Honyaki Honesuki 🌊
Ukrainian Bog Oak + Osage Orange

Heading to @chefsedgeau

#honyaki #handmade #chef #kitchen #cook

Honyaki Gyuto☠️ 240mmx68mm #honyaki #handma

Honyaki Gyuto☠️
240mmx68mm

#honyaki #handmade #chef #kitchen #cooking

Finally something that makes sense. Thank you Ital

Finally something that makes sense. Thank you Italy.

It’s perfectly normal not to eat meat if that’s your choice but to grow meat in a tube… no thanks.

230mm Honyaki Honesuki ready for handle ☠️ #h

230mm Honyaki Honesuki ready for handle ☠️

#handmade #kitchen #chef #honyaki

Blacker than black Ukrainian Bog Oak + Osage Orang

Blacker than black Ukrainian Bog Oak + Osage Orange. And same Oak with Arizona Desert Ironwood ☠️

Amazing to see so many Australian bladesmiths feat

Amazing to see so many Australian bladesmiths featured in the December issue of the @blade_magazine ❤️. Incredible to witness our craft being propelled forward by so many. We were a waaay smaller community just 10 years ago and now there is a wave after wave of makers crushing it. 🌊

Ross Arnold @minno.creek.knife.and.tool - Cover and Petty knife article feature
Ian Ronald @ronald_knives - Petty knife article feature
Zohar Oshinsky @zohar_oshinsky - Petty knife article feature
Aidan De Fazio @defazio_knives - Petty knife article feature
Mark Sinclair @sinclairknivesaustralia - Petty knife article feature
Andrew Lazarevic - Petty knife article feature
Bruce Schubert @bruce_schubert - ‘Whats New’ feature
Marc Stewart @marcjosefknives - ‘Whats New’ feature
Jamie Bishop @sausagemanforge - ‘Handmade Gallery’ feature
Tony Docherty @acdocherty - ‘Handmade Gallery’ feature
Ben Anderson @nv_blades - Brisket knife article feature

All of these photos were taken by @rod_hoare 📸

Made a movie 🎥 Honyaki Gyuto XL 240mm x 68mm

Made a movie 🎥
Honyaki Gyuto XL 240mm x 68mm
Rough ground and hamon is starting to pop. Sounds good too 🔔

Thank you @blade_magazine, Patrick Covert and Mike

Thank you @blade_magazine, Patrick Covert and Mike Haskew for featuring @cartercutlery, @hourglassknives and I in the ‘Shop dump’ of the December issue ❤️ We were even referred to as ‘top knifesmiths’ 🤓😜

My pup also made it to pages of the illustrious mag 😊

I was asked about my workshop and favourite tools. I got a little carried away and wrote more than could fit in the article and it obviously had to get cut down a little for publishing.
I’ll do another post at some point with some more info and pics of the workshop and tools.

Just keeps going. ☠️ Sakimaru Suji with SG2 co

Just keeps going. ☠️
Sakimaru Suji with SG2 core. I haven’t made any stainless knives in a long while which is really funny as that’s what I mostly worked with earlier in my journey.
Carbon honyakis is where my heart has been for a while now but it’s great to be reminded of what good stainless steel is capable of. Hard and abrasion resistant. HT is easy and repeatable once you know what you are doing. So good and yet so different from the feel of carbon.
If you have a perspective, would love to hear it.

230mm Honyaki Honesuki. Hamon really starting to j

230mm Honyaki Honesuki.
Hamon really starting to jump out of the steel at dirty 120 grit 💨☠️

Check out the totally rebuilt @eatingtools website

Check out the totally rebuilt @eatingtools website. Abe and team have curated an incredible selection of hand made goods for your kitchen❤️

Perfect bite 😋 Garden herbs, leftover pizza do

Perfect bite
😋

Garden herbs, leftover pizza dough, lamb from @breakoutrivermeats
@saratogaqualitymeats

Fly by ☠️ 225mm Gyuto in Spicy White core San

Fly by ☠️

225mm Gyuto in Spicy White core San Mai.
64mm tall. Dressed in Spalted Indian Oak and faux ivory.

#gyuto #custom #yellow #handmade

225mm Gyuto in Spicy White core San Mai. 64mm tal

225mm Gyuto in Spicy White core San Mai.
64mm tall. Dressed in Spalted Indian Oak and faux ivory.

#gyuto #lux #custom #yellow

230mm Suji in Spicy White core San Mai ☠️ Amer

230mm Suji in Spicy White core San Mai ☠️
American Oak and brass.

#handmade #sanmai #chef #kitchen #cooking

A couple teasers #handmade #chef #kitchen

A couple teasers

#handmade #chef #kitchen