No. 1 - Field
The Meridian
The knife I reach for when I leave the shop. A 4.5″ drop point in 80CrV2, ground thin enough to slice an apple and stout enough to split kindling without complaint.
2 of 10 remaining Purchase
Four knives.
Made slowly.
I forge in batches of ten. When they're gone, the list reopens.
Current batch ↓Plate I - The Meridian, off the stones · Batch 14
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No. 2 - Everyday carry
The Drover
A 3.25″ fixed blade that disappears on a belt. I carry the first one I ever made; it has opened feed bags, dressed birds, and outlived two trucks.
6 of 10 remaining Purchase
III / IV
No. 3 - Kitchen
The Hearth
An 8″ gyuto in san mai - a hard 26C3 core jacketed in soft wrought iron. I flatten the bevels by hand until it falls through an onion under its own weight.
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No. 4 - Camp
The Brush Hook
A camp chopper with its weight carried forward, ground from quarter-inch 5160. It clears trail, splits rounds, and quarters like a hatchet that learned manners.
1 of 10 remaining Purchase
The work
Six weeks, three rooms' worth of work, one pair of hands.
People ask why the list is long. This is why. Each batch of ten spends six weeks between the first fire and the last coat of oil, and every step happens in a forty-year-old pole barn at the end of a gravel road outside Ozark. Nothing is sent out. Nothing is batched past the point where I can hold every knife in my head at once. Ten is that number.
Fire
The steel arrives as bar stock and leaves the forge as something else. I work at a shade past 1,900 degrees, moving the bar before it cools, drawing the point and setting the distal taper with the hammer rather than the grinder. Forged geometry is quieter than cut geometry - the grain follows the blade instead of running out the edge.
Grind
After heat treat, every bevel is set on a slow-turning wheel and finished on hand stones. This is the step that cannot be hurried and cannot be hidden: a grind is either even or it isn't, and oil finish tells the truth. I spend more hours here than everywhere else combined.
Fit
Handles are shaped to the tang with rasps and files, never templates, so no two are identical and every one is symmetrical where your hand can feel it. The scales are pinned, epoxied, and left overnight under clamps; the final shaping happens after the glue has made the knife one object instead of three.
- T. Halloran"If it ever fails in honest use, send it back. I'll reforge it or refund it."
The list opens when the next batch does.
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Current wait · 9-12 weeks