Chardin Bread Knife by Scott Allman

I call this one the Chardin bread knife.....I was researching mid 18th c kitchen and everyday use knives & noticed this one in various painiting resources. Among others this particular one often appears in Jean Baptiste-Simeon Chardin's still life paintings. So I decided to bring it to life beyond the canvas. 

Patina, imperfections and daily use are all created into this one of a kind. Steel is 1095 -hand forged and all made with hand tools by me. (although I would be the first to agree that a higher carbon content steel probably would have not been used on such an every day household knife?.....however it was what I was working with at the time this past summer.) Handle is African blackwood with poured pewter fittings.

For any one interested this can be seen in-person at the Fall Hydref Festival at the Depreciation Lands Museum in Allison Park, Pennsylvania on October 3rd, 2015.

http://www.depreciationlandsmuseum.org/upcoming.Hydref.shtml

Copy and photos supplied by Scott Allman.

Folding Knife by Scott Allman

I finished this folding knife up just only recently. It seems for me that forging takes place in the milder spring, summer & fall here in Pennsylvania, while assembly and finishing is a wintertime shop event. 

My knife design is based on those as seen in George Neumann's book page #174 numbers 25 &26 and was sized for my own personal carry. It is hand forged, patina aged & crafted in an 18th century manner by me.

 The steel is 1095 and the scales are aged PA deer antler shed held on by copper peened pins. The main pivot pin & other pins are lower carbon steel.