Handmade Meat Cleavers as Working Art

Heavy Duty Saw Tooth Cleavers

hand forged saw blade meat cleaver. 1/4" spine, 8 inch edge, moose antler scales. — Heavy duty cleaver.

Handforged cleaver with 2 handmade fillet knives — Handmade cleaver. Hand forged from tough lumber mill carbon steel.

Tough and strong cleavers hand forged from recovered high carbon lumber mill saw blade steel. This modern steel was designed as a high impact, tensile steel. The Saw Tooth Cleavers have 7mm thick blades with high bevels and high impact razor edges differentially tempered for a hard edge and a tough body.

We leave the teeth on the spine for tenderizing meat.

Lumber mill saw blades are a superb source of knife steel stock. High quality, high carbon steel. We have been working with these steels since 1997, exclusively since 2000. There are many different blades in a lumber mill, different carbon and alloy contents. Each lending to a different tool and knife. We produce handmade, high end woodworking and woodcarving tools, hunting, survival, bushcraft, kitchen knives ulus and farrier knives.

You can watch a slide show of some blades and steel we forge.

Unique Handmade Cleavers,

Image Gallery of some of the Heavy Duty Sawtooth Chef Cleavers we’ve made.

Unique Handmade Kitchen Set

Cleaver and kitchen knife. Long 6 inch handles, moose antler scales lined with juniper wood. Forged carbon sawblade steel. The cleaver sits in a spruce burl block.

Handmade Meat Cleaver

¼ inch spine, 8 inch edge. Hand forged carbon steel sawblade.

Custom Chef Cleavers

We make the meat cleaver for heavy duty use. 1/4 spine, forged from high carbon lumber mill saw blade steel, the saw teeth on the spine makes for a great meat tenderizer.

7 1/2 inches of edge, 6 inch handle and your choice of antler or wood handle.

Custom Chef Cleaver laying on its juniper wood block

We harden with clay and glass protecting the spine and body. With subtle manipulations we create images in the patina of boreal forest wetlands were we live. The patinas help protect the carbon steel from rust.

Bigger Handmade Cleaver

9 inch edge, moose antler scales.

Hand Forged Chef Cleavers

We offer handmade leather sheaths or apple knot wood blocks included with the Saw Tooth Cleavers.

Hand Forged Cleaver

Juniper wood lined moose antler scales Custom.

Boreal Meat Cleaver

Hand forged from high carbon lumber mill steel. Moose antler and copper. Saw teeth make for great meat tenderizing.

Handmade Meat Cleaver

In hand. Strong and tough. Differential clay hardened and differential temper.

Saw Blade Tooth Cleavers

Custom Handmade Cleaver in a Block

For your kitchen counter or Hunting kit.

Handmade Meat Cleaver

We can create the cleaver with a 6 inch edge, a 10 inch edge or anything in between.

Handmade Fish Cleaver and Fillet Knives

Processing fish. A cleaver, 8 inch fillet knife and a 6 inch handmade fillet knife.

Handmade Nakiri (vegetable chopper)

175 mm carbon steel blade, walnut wood handle, copper ferrule.

$700

Custom Nakiri

All our kitchen knives are custom to order. This Nakiri has a 7 inch blade with an apple wood handle.

$700

Handmade Chopper

5 inch blade, 3/16 inch spine, 4 1/2 inch apple wood handle. Great for chopping everything in the kitchen.

$600

The handmade saw tooth meat cleavers above have a 7 - 9 inch edge, 3/16 and 1/4 inch spines and a long 5 - 8 inch handles.

The Heavy Duty Saw Tooth Cleaver

We have a limited supply of these blades.

Carbon steel cut from a 4 foot x 1/4 inch saw blade. 7 inch edge. Forged carbon steel saw blade steel. An 8 inch edge chef knife, 3/16 inch spine. Both have moose antler scales. $3600.

“I can't begin to tell you how happy I am with my new cleaver. I did receive the cleaver in time for the bbq and it stole the attention of all who attended (no small feat considering the 16 hr smoked local grass fed beef briskets and the 12 hr smoked Berkshire pork shoulders)”. -- Head chef, Turks & Caicos

We custom design knives for customers. Working with them to make great knives that are unique, one of a kind… functional working art from material you can’t buy. Hand picked recovered materials. The idea is not to cut corners - in fact, it’s the opposite.

We live simply and work in the bush on the edge of the Chilcotin plateau growing our food, creating art, while leaving a light footprint. Our power for the shop and cabin is from the sun. Up-cycling or recycling, re-purposing or re-using and trying not to exploit others while creating working knives and tools. With a small, efficient system we are powered by the sun’s energy. It takes time acquiring and working with these materials.

Custom Handmade Cleavers

Handmade Meat Cleavers as Working Art

Heavy Duty Saw Tooth Cleavers

Unique Handmade Cleavers,

Image Gallery of some of the Heavy Duty Sawtooth Chef Cleavers we’ve made.

The Heavy Duty Saw Tooth Cleaver