Lucy's Sabatier
The first in our Signature Collection series based on the C.S. Lewis novels The Chronicles of Narnia:
A handmade culinary Sabatier influenced by Lucy's Dagger, gifted in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
This french-style chef knife is meticulously crafted from a combination of 220 commercial bronze and structural iron forged over a 400 layer high carbon damascus steel core for exceptional beauty and durability. Hollow ground with a second "false edge" up top to emphasize it's mythical dagger influence. The hidden tang is enbedded in a stabilized wildebeast bone handle with unique dark red dye rejection, giving the permanent appearance of being blood-stained as a nod to Aslan's sacrifice, adorned with a hand-filed bronze crown bolster and small, rounded damascus steel guard. Aslan's face, a bronze lion's head, has been set in the very back of the bone.
- 9” Blade, 2” heel, 15.75” overall length
- Hand-forged bronze layered iron over a high carbon damascus steel core
- Hidden tang in stabilized wildebeast bone with damascus guard, bronze crown and lion's head
- 11oz
- Leather slip cover- Black zipper case
This knife is intended as a work of art, but is fully functional for culinary performance if desired.
The Inspiration:
The Chronicles of Narnia are written as beautiful allegory for the Christian Faith of which I grew up within but have long been distant, representing through a mystical world of talking animals the Creation of Life, The Fall of Man and The Sacrifice of Christ. I read them for the first time over 2024 along with my 9 year old son as one of our first shared "big kid" book series together. I am not a religious man, but found the story very moving and the connection with my son over such large themes, presented so poetically, to be an incredibly postive experience.
Over New Years and into Januray 2025 I came down with covid, which quickly became pnuemonia and sepsis with circulatory distress. And, although never said explictily, I believe a credible threat to my life. While laying in bed, the sickist I've ever been, I could hear my children playing and found no option but to pray that I'd be able to play with them again soon. In that surrender I expirenced a clarity I'd never felt and a lust for life that, sadly, may only come in the moments you're truly afraid of losing it. I was off my feet most of Janurary, healing much slower than I'd like, but I'm here today and I cant help but feel immense gratitude for that.
I dont know what this new found faith means to me yet, but I know I want to explore it to whatever end. While still in bed, we watched the Narnia movies as a family and it cemented what I wanted to work on as soon as possible. When I had the strength to be back in the shop I felt compelled to push this craft, my life's work, futher in this meaningful direction and this series is how it's so far coming out. I hope you enjoy seeing this work as much I do making, and being able to make it. More to come as it unfolds. Thank you for your support.
