Brass Mountain Kotanto
The core of this project is a high carbon blade, charcoal-forged from reclaimed steel, water quenched with clay and sharpened with waterstones, an outdoor knife that has the foundation of the Japanese sword but is finished in the simple and humble style of farming and foresting tools of centuries ago. Satoyama are the managed forest…
Hybrid Hori Hori
An all aluminum fusion design based on a tool favoured by bonsai gardeners and micro farmers alike.
Aluminum Hori Hori
An intergral version of the classic mountain gardeners’ tool rendered in cold forged aluminum.
Teddy Bear Armour
Following the first knife ever in 1990 in the form of a mini katana scaled for my teddy bear, I made a three different versions of armour for him as well in 1991 (the summer after grade 8) at the age of 13. The first was probably the bamboo and paper plate armour, the second…