Broch Blades

08/06/2026

04/06/2026

🎉Website drop!🎉 This Saturday the 6th. at 21:30 CET.
www.brochblades.com

Specs for both bl@des below:

Gyuto:
-bl@de: 269mm x 69mm
-steel: 135cr3 & clean wrought iron san-mai
-distal taper: 5,9mm - 2,0mm - 0,95mm (20mm from the tip)
-handle: Hyperbola handle in vintage canvas micarta and burnt brass top-cap.
-weight: 281g

Cleaver:
-bl@de: 190mm x 72mm
-steel: 135cr3 & clean wrought iron san-mai
-distal taper: 5,6mm - 2,0mm - 1,2mm (spine at the tip)
-handle: Rokkaku Han Maru handle in bog oak and holm oak ferrule.
-weight: 243g

How’s 21:30 CET for everyone?

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04/06/2026

Big boy gyuto! A full 269mm x 69mm👀 of wrought iron & 135cr3 san-mai with a full black kurouchi and lots of geometry.
To balance all of that out. Is a ‘Hyperbola’ handle in vintage canvas micarta and burnt brass top-cap!
And the best part..

It’ll be available this Saturday (6th) along with the mid sized cleaver, on my website!
More details about the two bl@des and when they’ll be available soon.

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01/06/2026

Finally felt good enough today to get out into the workshop again and get a bit of work done on this big gyuto!
I’m starting up slow just doing a bit of rough stone work. Onto the next grits tomorrow!

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22/05/2026

What are we calling this, a mid or small size cleaver?
It’s 190mm x 72mm.

This one will be up on my website together with a big! Gyuto once that one is finished.

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14/05/2026

Another finished bl@de ready for .austria 🔥

A 212mm x 62mm low bevel bunka

Full info about the bl@des going to the show will come at a later date.

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12/05/2026

This gyuto is one of my recent favourites! But you’ll have to wait to get your hands on it, because it’s going with me to .austria in October!

The lower heel height (54mm) is something that I haven’t done in a long while on a gyuto and it’s something I’ll for sure have to do more of!
Also two very stunning pieces of mulga and masur birch for the handle!

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08/05/2026

Ooohhh yeah!!! First bl@de for .austria finished!
There’s not much to not like about this one!

A little more info about it to come next week.

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03/05/2026

Really pleased with these grinds so far💥

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01/05/2026

Progression from forged to hardened.

1. The 4 bl@des as forged and touchmark stamped.

2. Annealed, normalised and then sandblasted.

3. Cold forged under the power hammer with the new dies. To smoothen the surface and refine the geometry.

4. Pre-heat treatment profile ground.

5. Tang step filed in, date and steel specifications stamped in the tang.

6. Clay applied for the heat treatment.

7. All 4 bl@des quenched, tempered and minor warps straightened.

8. The kurouchi is missing in a few spots, but it’s along the edge on all the bl@des so it won’t be a problem.

Onto grinding and polishing 👋