by Tim Hayward
Thank you to Helen Lewis, Laura Willis, Verity Holliday, Emily Noto and Gemma Hayden at Quadrille and my eternally excellent agent Tim Bates.
Thank you to the Home Team, Al, Lib and the crew at Fitzbillies, who continue to put up with my grumpiness and absence, book after book.
Special thanks to Simon Davis who squeezed in time amongst the thrills of new fatherhood to edit brilliantly.
Any illustrated book is a team effort far more wide-reaching than the credits can describe, a bit like traditional Japanese knives made by a group of craftsmen – but I’d like to think this one is more so than usual. It’s been a collaboration in which every individual has genuinely added an enormous amount to the scope of the finished project. Thank you to:
Chie Kutsuwada
Chie Kutsuwada, Manga maker, who made some crazily loose ideas into solid brilliance.
Will Webb
Will Webb whose sophisticated, ice-cool design work mirrors his hitman calm.
Chris Terry
Chris Terry whose ability to see as much beauty in a battered old object as a pristine piece has genuinely expanded the remit of this book beyond all our expectations.
Sarah Lavelle
Finally to Sarah Lavelle, who brought us together, led us through and whose name, if anyone’s, should be on the blade.
They are shokunin all.
INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations
A
accessories 1–2
A.L.O. 1, 2
American Bladesmiths Society 1
American knives 1, 2, 3
anatomy of the knife 1
axes 1, 2
B
bandsaws 1, 2
Bargoin/Fischer 1, 2
Bâtard Folding Picnic Knife 1, 2
Beehive 1
belt knives 1
Benriner 1
Black, Joe 1
blades 1, 2
making a blade 1–2
materials 1–2
Blenheim Forge 1, 2–3, 4–5 6, 7
Bloodroot Blades 1
boning gouges 1, 2
boning knives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
bread knives 1, 2, 3
Bron-Couke 1
bronze knives 1
butcher’s block 1
butcher’s knives 1, 2–3
butchery kit 1, 2
Butler 1
C
cai dao 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Canadian knives 1
Carême, Antonin 1
Carter, Murray 1, 2
carving 1–2
carving forks 1
carving knives 1, 2, 3
electric 1, 2
chainmail gloves 1, 2
cheese knives 1, 2
chef’s knife 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Chinese cleaver 1, 2, 3
light, front-weighted 1, 2
Chinese cutting blocks 1
Chinese knives 1, 2–3, 4, 5
the Claw 1
cleavers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chinese cleavers 1, 2, 3
French cleaver patterns 1–2, 3–4
light, front-weighted Chinese cleaver 1, 2
Conran, Shirley 1
copper knives 1
Cote, Guillaume 1
Crichton, Scott Grant 1
custom knives 1, 2–3
cutting boards 1, 2
cutting-towards-the-thumb grip 1
cutting yourself 1–2
D
dagger grip 1, 2
Damascus steel knives 1, 2, 3, 4
dao bao 1, 2
David, Elizabeth 1
Davidian Sabatier 1
deba 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Déglon Sabatier 1, 2
diamond steels 1, 2, 3
Doghouse Forge 1, 2
Dozorme, Claude 1, 2
E
edges, shaping 1
electric carving knife 1, 2
English knives 1, 2, 3
Escoffier’s knife 1
F
Fama 1, 2
feuille de boucher 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6
filleting knives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Finnish knives 1
flint knives 1
Forschner/Victorinox 1, 2, 3, 4
French knives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
cleaver patterns 1–2, 3–4
French pattern knives 1
fruit carving knives 1, 2
G
garesuki 1
Genzo field butchery kit 1, 2
German knives 1, 2, 3, 4
Gilpin, Nathaniel 1, 2–3, 4
Global 1, 2
gloves, chainmail 1, 2
gralloching knife 1
grip 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
gutting hooks 1, 2
gyuto 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
H
hachinette 1
hachoirs 1
hammer grip 1, 2, 3
handles 1
hankotsu 1, 2, 3, 4
Harris, Henry 1, 2–3, 4
heat treatment 1
Henckels, J. A. 1, 2, 3, 4
Hitachi 1
honesuki 1, 2
I
Indian market knives 1, 2
iron knives 1, 2, 3
Italian knives 1
J
jamonero 1, 2
Japanese knives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7, 8, 9, 10
mandolines 1, 2
knife dictionary 1–2
knifemaking 1, 2
sharpening 1
Jinhua Preasy Machinery Co. 1, 2
K
kamagata usuba 1
kanto usuba 1
katsuramuki 1, 2, 3, 4
Kikuichi 1, 2, 3
knife racks 1, 2
knife rolls 1, 2
knife-sharpeners 1, 2, 3
knives
anatomy of knife 1
changing shape 1
knifemaking 1–2, 3, 4
materials 1–2, 3
sharpening 1, 2–3
strokes 1–2
Kramer, Bob 1, 2, 3
L
Laguiole 1, 2
Lamson and Goodnow 1
Leung Tim Choppers Co. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
M
mandolines 1, 2
Japanese mandolines 1, 2
market knives, Indian 1, 2
Martínez y Gascón 1, 2
materials 1–2, 3
melon ballers 1
meuchi 1, 2
Mexea and Co. 1
mezzaluna 1, 2
modding knives 1
Mora 9151P filleting knife 1, 2
Morton, James 1
mushroom knives 1, 2
N
nakiri 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
NHB KnifeWorks 1
O
octopus slicer 1, 2
office knife 1, 2
opinel 1, 2
oyster knives 1, 2
P
Paderno 1, 2
paring knives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Parmesan knife 1, 2
Patel, Jay 1
petty knives 1, 2, 3
picnic knives 1, 2
pinch grip 1
point grip 1–2
Prestige (Skyline) 1, 2
puukko 1, 2
R
repairing knives 1
Rockingham Forge 1, 2
Le Roi de la Coupe 1, 2
Ross-Harris, James 1–2, 3, 4
Russell, Donald 1
S
Sabatier knives 1, 2, 3, 4
Saji 1, 2
Sakai Takayuki 1, 2
sakimaru takohiki 1
Sakon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sakura 1, 2
salmon slicer 1, 2
San-Etsu 1, 2, 3, 4
santoku 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
scimitars 1, 2
Sears Roebuck & Co 1, 2
sharpening knives 1, 2–3
Shiro Kamo 1, 2
S
hokunin 1–2
skinner’s blade 1
Spanish knives 1
specialised knives 1–2
spiralizers 1
stabbing grip 1
steak knives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
steels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
stones 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
strokes 1–2
strops 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
sugru 1
suminagashi 1, 2
sushikiri 1, 2
Swedish knives 1–2, 3
T
Tadafusa 1, 2
Takamura 1, 2
takohiki 1, 2
Thai knives 1
Thiers-Issard Sabatier 1, 2, 3, 4
352P gutting hook 1, 2
tourné knife 1
toward-the-thumb grip 1
truffle slicers 1, 2
turning knife 1, 2
U
unagisaki 1, 2
usuba 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
utility knife 1
V
vegetables
Japanese cutting styles 1–2
mandolines 1, 2
veg carving knives 1, 2
Victorinox/Forschner 1, 2, 3, 4
W
Warner, Richard 1–2, 3
Warshawsky, Jonathan 1, 2–3, 4
water stones 1, 2, 3, 4
Wetterlings Manufaktur AB 1, 2
wheels 1, 2
willow blade knife 1
working knives 1–2
Wüsthof 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Y
yanagiba 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13