A bit of a bayonet, a bit of a kyhber knife. Old batch of Crucible steel from @peterburtsteel, wrought iron frame, african blackwood scales. Frame is fileworked and engraved by me and is one of my first works to feature any engraving.

Kitchen knife in floral mosaic and Gordion knot opposing twist edges. The forge welded bolster is a mosaic slice of the edge material.

This steel is the first produced in the new space here in Istanbul.

The handle is black and white g10, and dyed and stabilized maple. Weighs in at 175g. 210mm blade length, 45mm at the heel, 345mm overall. The edge is quite thin on this one, finished on cretan stones from Cyrpus, comes shaving sharp, as you would expect.

The Duality of Form - Inspired again by the pyramids, this time Dashur and my own imagination. The main pyramid is based on the dimensions of the bent pyramid, slope angles of 54 and 43 degree, and the small ones at 51.5 degrees like Giza. Patterns obviously born of a straight layer billet but its orientation again giving a dynamic element to the structure. They have been deeply etched, giving even some texture to the 15n20 and revealing weld boundaries and grain structure.

The base is deeply etched wrought iron, entirely forged under the power hammer and a fullering tool to have the feeling of sand dunes backing a sand stone cliff. Its organic nature balancing the rigid geometric nature of the pattern and the pyramids.