Have a Knife Day!

I like knives. I enjoy using a finely made tool and I admire the workmanship that goes into many knives.

Although I have stayed well toward the utility side of things, with mostly Sabatier high carbon steel implements, I sometimes see an 'art' knife' that draws me to it. They are functional kitchen tools, but a lot of thought and technique went into them. An article in the most recent Saveur got me going again and I thought I'd post some here. Our site doesn't seem to accept some of the picture URLs today, but I urge you to look at the sites and/or pictures using the urls.

Example - Middleton Knives http://www.middletonmadeknives.com/about.htm
(only the price - $840 for the 8" Damascus chef's knife - will keep me away from them. They do a nice shucking knife though....)



Michael Rader in Bothel WA (near Jenise) sells as Carbon River Forge. http://www.raderblade.com/

http://www.raderblade.com/storage/damascus.jpg

http://www.raderblade.com/storage/Handle%20set%201.jpg

See also http://www.chefknivestogo.com/ for other interesting small production knives available.

[Robin Garr]

Our site doesn't seem to accept some of the picture URLs today ...

FYI, that is not a site "mood" thing. Most often it is a function of the size of the original (too large, and we don't want it); or, more rarely, a programming gotcha on the other end because for some reason they don't want the image shared.

Yeah, I test the image URL by viewing as a separate page, and assess the image size before I even try and post. The images I had trouble with were small enough and they showed fine on a separate page, but our site didn't like them. I posted them as an URL rather than an image, so if you feel like playing with them, I'd be interested in why they didn't want to show.

[Robin Garr]

Yeah, I test the image URL by viewing as a separate page, and assess the image size before I even try and post. The images I had trouble with were small enough and they showed fine on a separate page, but our site didn't like them. I posted them as an URL rather than an image, so if you feel like playing with them, I'd be interested in why they didn't want to show.

Well, the damascus blade (beautiful!) is way too big ... over 1200 pixels. That makes our system choke for sure.

The handle set image is 725 pixels wide, under the 800x800 limit, so it should work. but looking at the original URL, it's funky, with some non-alphanumeric characters and a long code at the end on the original page. Something about failure to communicate, I'm afraid.

Thanks for checking.

Yeah, I posted so people could load and look at them - that Damascus blade is a work of art!
Wish I could afford it! I have a tasting coming up I have to save for!