Mugen Forge

Cheese is not what we expected to use this knife for, but it works great. Beta testing on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas away from the anvil and fire, folks.

A quick shot too show off this piece. 7 layers of steel forge welded finally taking on its final shape.

Digging in the “pieces” bin and assembling handles for knives tonight. We are working both sides of production on these Santoku!

These Santoku are flying through production they were annealed last night, and today they will be normalized for hardening and quenching tomorrow. We have also started coding materials and producing handles. Soon these will be in kitchens!

We have been talking, for quite some time about producing a Santoku knife. When we were approached about producing a commission piece, e jumped at the chance. Here you see a few being prepared with a few different handle designs.

Finishing up another….

A new set. A new design. Can’t wait to do some cooking with these!

It’s gratifying to see months of work come together…

This has been quite a step forward for us, technically, and artistically. This knife is our first successful bit of forge welding. This knife was forged, by hand, by 7 layers of steel. A core of 80CRV2 clad in 15N20, a layer of W2 Tool steel, abs one final layer of 15N20. It has been been upset and drawn out, entirely by hand, and hammered to shape.
It has been annealed, normalized, hardened, and tempered. It is time to finish the grinding, abs also a handle on it.

Today I learned that firebrick melts… really hot forge

Now is a great time to get your knives sharpened!
We are preparing to sharpen a batch of knives heading out to their new owners. Now would be a great time to contact us and get your knives sharpened. Enjoy the luxury and added safety of preparing food with sharp knives!

Finally, this Serbian knife is nearly complete! The main body of the blade has been blackened, and the cutting edge, abs the spine need to be polished before we put an edge on it and give it to its new owner. This is one unconventionally beautiful blade!