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Caleb White just did a little tool tip video about our file guide!Caleb is a well-known US knife maker, check out his Instagram here: LINK and is starting up a new Youtube channel which we recommend following. Here is a Dagger from C White Studios for reference, photo by Jim Sharp who was here in Sydney in August again.Click the below photo to get to youtube to see the Tool Tip, and why not give Caleb a subscribe when you are there:If you want to check out more of Caleb's work, his sit …

Mert Tansu is well-known knifemaker of chef knives, located in the Hunter Valley, NSW. Born in Turkey and with a background as an Executive Chef in the US and in Australia, Mert hung up his chef jacket in 2018 to focus full-time on knife making. Based in the Hunter Valley, NSW he offers one-on-one workshops as well as knives for professional chefs and others who appreciate quality tools from https://tansuknives.com/Earlier in the year, Mert approached us to make a custom version of the file …

Reposting some photos by Ian Stewart showing how he uses his carbide file guide to cut guard notches in heat treated blades. Ian is commenting that this can be done before heat treat, but to avoid creating stress raisers for the quench, he has started doing these post heat-treatment. Ian uses a grinder with cut-off wheel, and the file guide to accurately cut these in without going past his scribed lines for the guard. Ian is currently working on some knives for the Sydney Knife Show in …