Author: Cape Cod Cutlery

Here are our second generation chef knives, they are  waiting for some blade polishing and logos. After that they will be going out to our test chefs at Spoon and Seed, The Naked Oyster, The Portside Tavern, Bleu and the Cape Sea Grille.     Also present an oyster knife a paring knife and a friction folder.  They are on top of our new price tags created by our shop apprentice Marwin who has been helping us with out new logo and branding.

We decided to streamline our logo.  We picked these two colors and a carbon color so gray it looks black to be our company’s official colors.   The official company font is called Damascus. Which is pretty awesome because of Damascus steel which we will be getting more involved with in the future.  We are looking into Tee shirts and stickers and various marketing items to get the image out there and recognizable this summer.

Check out our friend Bruce’s photos of a day in the life of a knife maker. 

Our friend Bruce Bishop, who is a professional photographer , came down to shoot us while looking for images for a photo contest.  This is what he came up with.

Come on down and check out our first retail store.  Summer House Natural Soaps of Hyannis is now our retailer for our line of straight razors.  They also sell an excellent shaving soap, brushes and other men’s grooming items.

Cape Cod Cutlery straight razors can be purchased at Summer House Soaps of Hyannis. Get some shaving soap and a brush while you are there!  Go check them out.  Do not touch the blades though as they are razor sharp.  I know how tempting it is.  Trust us they are razors.

Here we have a special order of our new filet, oyster knife and paring knife.   The handles are brass, ebony and cocobolo.  Blades are 52100.

Another great customer picture.  Looks yummy! Little tastes of the ocean!

The Camp Chopper is made of 52100 High Carbon Steel.  It has a handle of desert ironwood and a yellow and green liner.  Two mosaic pins complete the package.

These are our new and improved kitchen knives.  Having learned a great deal about shape, thickness, geometry, style and use from our work with some Top Chefs on Cape Cod we have a new set of knives.  Top is a massive 11 inch filet knife that takes the handle design from our boat knife.  The thumb and finger indentation give it a really nice feel when filleting fish.  It can be cut down to an 8 and 6 inch length or shorter if one wants a really short boning knife. The next is Mister Stabby the oyster schucker.  Our version of the Cape Cod or Boston stabber design.  Our executive Bird and Trout knife in a thinner form is taking its place as our paring blade. Last but not least an 8 inch chef knife that takes its notes from French chef knives. Plenty of rocking motion the full length of the blade that was missing in our earlier German inspired knives.   These knives will probably end up sporting acid etched patinas and hamon lines with a mixture of wood, horn and synthetic materials.  We can not wait to get on them this week. They are all made out of 52100 high carbon steel. We have a new grinder as well with a 10 inch contact wheel that will allow us  to do some amazing hollow grinds.  This will  lead to sharper  and lighter kitchen knives in some of the blades. For those that are still flat ground the new grinder will help keep them even while allowing us to thin them a bit more allowing for still sharper and lighter knives with overall better cutting characteristics.

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As most people know we are medievalists.  We started making knives for reenactment community.  We spent Saturday at the biggest market in the Northeast for this sort of thing, Market Day at Birka. The two damascus blades on the bottom are made by our friend the immensely talented Brian Dimmock.  They are still available if anyone is interested. Enjoy the pictures!

There can be no doubt that folding knives sell better than fixed blade knives.  They are easy to carry and use day to day.  We currently make a friction folder.  This is the oldest known design of folding knife and they have been found in Saxon graves in England  back to the  9th cent and apparently even older than that 400 A.D. Rome.  We will be coming out with a liner locking blade hopefully this summer or fall by the latest along with straight razors. Here are some pics of the recent models.  All the blades are made from recycled files.  Some over 130 years old.   The company was bought out in 1890!  Handles are micarta and one is buffalo horn.