About Keith Nix Knives
Specialties: Keith Nix Knives is a North Carolina Knife Maker located in Black Mountain. We offer Hand Made Chefs Knives for home cooks or professionals. Custom kitchen knives nearby, and handmade knives for indoor or outdoor use, all made from new, known steel. With the Knife Store, Professional Knife Sharpening Service, and Black Mountain Knifeworks right here in town Keith Nix Knives is only...
Specialties: Keith Nix Knives is a North Carolina Knife Maker located in Black Mountain. We offer Hand Made Chefs Knives for home cooks or professionals. Custom kitchen knives nearby, and handmade knives for indoor or outdoor use, all made from new, known steel. With the Knife Store, Professional Knife Sharpening Service, and Black Mountain Knifeworks right here in town Keith Nix Knives is only a few minutes from Asheville, Marion, Hendersonville, and Weaverville. We make other custom kitchen knives including carving and slicing knives, paring and steak knives, custom cleavers, thin vegetable cleavers, deba knife, nakiri knives, hunting knives, and a growing number of outdoor knives. Offering three high carbon steels, two stainless steels, and three tool steels from which to choose for the home kitchen or professional environment! Your custom knives can be made from AEB-L, CPM MagnaCut, CPM M4, A2, D2, 52100, 80CRV2, and 26C3. Are you having a hard time finding an Asheville Knife Maker? Keith Nix Knives, the Local Knife Maker and Black Mountain Knives are only a few minutes away! Stop by when you're in Black Mountain and visit the knife shop! Let's get your hand made knives North Carolina on the list! Established in 2019. In 2015 or 2016 I acquired a lovely piece of Birdseye Maple and thought it would be fun to make a knife handle from it. I didn't have a suitable knife so I shopped around and found a company that sells drilled, profiled, and hardened blank knives. "Add your handle and sharpen", so to speak. I ordered a blade, and when it arrived I was amazed it passed this company's quality control process. The bevels were grossly off center to the centerline of the spine of the knife, the pin holes varied by over .010, the hardness was in the mid 50s HRc. It might have made a nice toy, but it wasn't a knife I wanted to carry.
And that $20 blade is what compelled me to embark on this. Being a machinist, I knew I could do better, and I set to studying the art and design, heat treating processes, knife steels, and handle materials. Many thousands of dollars in knife making equipment and machines later, and a bunch of badly ground blades, I actually started making and testing my first blades.
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