Darkhoeks creative culinarium

This is a blog about some of my hobbies: Collecting Japanese kitchen knives and japanese natural sharpening stones, knife design and knife building, and some creative cooking.

25 Apr 2012

Marko Tsourkan Designs 240 mm Wa Gyuto 52100

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Marko Tsourkan from NY should be no stranger to many of us knife nuts. He is a well renowned and very skillful maker of handles mainly for k...

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24 Apr 2012

Full custom 300 mm damascus san mai suji - "The Black Pearl"

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About a year ago I was thinking seriously about getting a full custom knife. I was not sure where I wanted to go so I searched the Internet,...

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19 Dec 2011

Petty and Victorinox rehandle

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This is what I have been working on lately. My friend Øivind had a couple of knives he wanted me to rehandle and I needed at couple of ...

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14 Nov 2011

Handle and saya on Hiromoto sujihiki

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A great sushi Chef in New York sent me a Hiromoto sujihiki blade with a block of stabilized spalted Hackberry wood that he wanted to have m...

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Darkhoek: Oslo, Norway; My name is Harald. I am a collector of japanese kitchen knives (mainly yanagibas) and japanese natural stones for knife sharpening. I am also previously Norwegian champion for amateur chefs, and love creative cooking. I build, rebuild, refurbish and sharpen knives as a hobby and as a way of Zen excercise. There is nothing more relaxing after a hard days work than to take a dull knife to the stones and transform it into a razor. It gives me the feeling of having full control over at least a small portion of my life. Stay tuned!

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