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It takes at least one day to make a knife, and it can take up to several weeks.
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It all begins in the fire <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9Morgane Lef\u00e8vre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The steel is hammer-forged to the finest possible thickness, unlike the modern approach, in which the piece is roughly forged and then finished by removing material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u7d20\u6750-materials<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Steel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u92fc - hagane<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I use steels that are as close to tradition as possible: French steel from Saut du Tarn, very old steel and iron (often several centuries old) and artisanal low hearth steel made by myself or by a colleague from Feron (in the same tradition as tamahagane).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Sanmai\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No 01<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanmai<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old laminated iron + cutting edge with 0.7 % carbon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Aciers<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No 02<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antique steel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multicentennial steel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Bas-foyer\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No 03<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Handcrafted steel, Tamahagane tradition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wood<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u6728 - ki<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I use local wood of various species. For Kotanto, I enrich the wood by treating it with the traditional method of urushi lacquer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Manche<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No 04<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfermented Shirasaya<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Manche<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No 05<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kotanto handle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 coats of natural urushi lacquer on linden wood<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Finition<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No 06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urushi-lacquered box with a leather strap<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La fabrication d’un couteau prend au minimum une journ\u00e9e et peut prendre jusqu’\u00e0 plusieurs semaines. Tout commence dans le feu L’acier est forg\u00e9 au marteau au plus fin \u00e0 l’inverse d’une approche moderne o\u00f9 la pi\u00e8ce est forg\u00e9e grossi\u00e8rement puis finit par enl\u00e9vement de mati\u00e8re. \u7d20\u6750 \u00b7 mati\u00e8res Acier \u92fc \u00b7 hagane J’utilise des aciers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6962","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elie-eveno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elie-eveno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elie-eveno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elie-eveno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elie-eveno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elie-eveno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7320,"href":"https:\/\/www.elie-eveno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6962\/revisions\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elie-eveno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}