#choppah

I’ve recently had a lot of requests for that Serbian chefs knife that’s going around. Here’s my first take. Note that I am not trying to recreate exactly someone else’s design. I am going in my own direction on these. I have a couple more to go but this was a good start. It was forged from a 2"x2"x.6" piece of 25 layer @bob_rankin_custom_knives damascus. It was a challenge to get this knife from that cut off, but in the end I got it! I decided to grind in a little hollow to release tension on cut veggies. Seemed to work pretty well and it added a nice dramatic flair.
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Handle material is from @forrester_woods
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Progression sequence of me forging the low layer block of @bob_rankin_custom_knives damascus out into a Serbian Inspired Chefs Knife.
The block started as a 2"x2"x.7" chunk. It was a challenge to get this shape. The initial isolation should probably have been done woth a round bar instead of that triangle. I had to get in there with a grinder at one point and curve that a little. I also didn’t isolate enough material to forge an integral and decent sized tang. The solution I went with was to forge weld some wrought iron onto the little tang to get it extended. The first time I was “done” I realized just how much metal was still available to expand the shape. I went back to it and got more length and a better shape out of it. It had the additional benefit of making the pattern look super stretched… which it was.
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