THAT’s a knife…
The ‘Chook’ 6” Utility Knife
$155
In Australia, everyone knows a Chook. Be they a family member, a mate, a mate-of-a-mate, or just some flamin’ galah down the road. Your average Chook is typically small, tenacious, and handy for pretty much anything, so always great to have around.
Handmade 6” stainless steel utility knife (6” blade, 10” total length), made with CPM S35VN stainless steel, brass pins and various handle material options (shown in redheart).
THE 'CHOPPAH' 8" CHEF'S KNIFE
$195
In Australia, a ‘Choppah’ (or ‘Chopper’) can be many things: a helicopter, a motorcycle, a tooth, a Toe Cutter, but here at Bainbridge Metalworks we’re believers in the Bauhaus maxim that form follows function, and thus we like to name things after what they do (in this case, chop).
Handmade 8” stainless steel chef’s knife (8” blade, 12” total length), made with CPM S35VN stainless steel, brass pins and various handle material options (shown in walnut).
THE 'MEATAXE' 7" MINI CLEAVER
$175
In Australian idiom, to be as “mad as a meataxe” is to display a high degree of lunacy. ‘Meataxe’ is a descriptor given to large knives, but also to people (or in some case animals) who are unusually large and muscular. Those people are typically also described as a ‘boofhead’ or a ‘drongo’, but those are stupid names for a knife, so Meataxe it is.
Handmade 7” stainless steel mini cleaver (7” blade, 11” total length), made with CPM S35VN stainless steel, brass pins and various handle material options (shown in ironwood).
knife sets…
KITCHEN BASICS -
2-KNIFE SET
$350
Set of two handmade stainless steel kitchen knives: 6” utility knife, 8” chef’s knife (shown with walnut handles)
Includes custom walnut knife block.
KITCHEN ESSENTIALS -
3-KNIFE SET
$500
Set of three handmade stainless steel kitchen knives: 6” utility knife, 8” chef’s knife, 7” mini cleaver (shown with redheart handles)
Includes custom walnut knife block.
ABOUT OUR KNIVES…
Our knives are handmade to order in our small workshop in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. We take pride in crafting well-made and distinctive knives and, wherever possible, we strive to make use of reclaimed, recycled and repurposed materials (from timber offcuts for our handle scales, to paper and cardboard for our packaging.)
By far our favourite steel to use in our knives is technically known as CPM S35VN, but thanks to its combination of quality, affordability and workability, it has also been dubbed the “ultimate mainstream steel”.
CPM S35VN is a premium stainless steel developed in 2009 by Chris Reeve and Crucible Industries (a New York-based steel manufacturer) using Crucible Particle Metal (CPM) technology, which helps to make homogeneous steel by distributing carbides (the hard particles in steel that allow the blade to keep an edge) evenly throughout the material.
Particle metal steel manufacturing is only done by a handful of steel manufacturers around the world and results in a high-quality blade steel specifically designed for knife making that provides superior edge retention, toughness and corrosion resistance over that of traditionally made steel.