I’ve had an interest in cooking and kitchen knives for most of my life. After getting back from my painting trip in November 2024 I wanted to invest in a better set of chef knives and I could either spend a few hundred to get a nice set, or spend the same amount of money and learn a new skill to make them instead with the few months I had over winter before the next trip, so here we are!

I decided to start with stock removal to make the knives rather than shell out a tonne for anvil and all the forging equipment, in-case i didn’t enjoy the process, this then lead to building a single Frosty T burner forge out of insulation bricks and a steel frame for heat treating and expansion later if needed, ordered some steel, and some tools to start shaping and grinding off material and got to experimenting. Here’s the outcomes of the journey so far.