I have always loved cutting food when cooking. Mincing vegetables or slicing meat with a reasonably well cutting knife always gave me some pleasure. I guess when the time came to pick up a craft, it made sense.

I am trying to create knives which are simultaneously deadly efficient culinary tools and beautiful objects. Some knives are elevated to pieces of art, but doing so often removes any use for them: they become objects to look at but they lose their primary function.

The answer is most probably Japan, they have developed very precise techniques in forging, blade construction, geometry, sharpening that are all necessary to making an efficient knife. I also believe in creating with the future owner to create a truly unique piece.

I wouldn’t say so. It is certainly not that easy to make a living out of it, but even though you can get knives at your local store there will always be some people that are willing to pay a higher price to get a better and personalised knife.