I wonder why you didn't reprofile the tang to the original add metal to it and same with the butcher's knife or the divot was in I would have just added metal that way you had the exact profile of the original knife? Just curious

Tig weld

You saved these knifes from imposture. Great work.

@@herbtender910 oh no herb I was just saying I had a couple questions why and you know I don't know how much the guy was paying him and you know how much time he wanted to invest in it, it just seems like there could have been a little bit more work done but yeah man no this dude killed it he was awesome.

Amazing work to restore those knives

I would like to add guitars/instruments in general to that list. Too many people do horrendous shit to instruments. You can turn an amazing guitar into a piece of worthless trash in 5 minutes with a screwdriver. I've seen spray paint on guitars, it still makes me physically sick to think about.

When I was a junior mechanic when I was younger, I remember one oft he senior mechanics try to pry out car battery by using crow bar, and using the "wing" of the car as the lever point, obviously the metal bodywork was soft by comparison and the crowbar just went right through it, leaving a deep dent, I laught so hard at him. Glad I decided to go into cheffing instead. I hated people not taking me seriously as a mechnic.

Guitars also. Horrid repairs done on 75+ year old instruments is common.

@@AhsokaTanoTheWhite Uh... Is the battery that heavy? I can lift it out with 2 hands.

@@pomelo9518 the battery was corroded to the metal shelf it was sitting on.

That is hilarious! Thanks for the chuckle this morning! 🤣

100% me until the end where I saw the insane difference Lol

Reminds me of the comments on Baumgartner’s vids lol

No offence but if you were a knife repair guy I’d sure hate to have my knives sent to you. 😂😂😂

@@caelestigladii Kind of an odd comment to make. It's possible that they just don't notice these things because they *aren't* a knife repair person. If that became their interest, then, like most people who enter the field, they'd learn this stuff. As it turns out, people are not born with this knowledge, they have to learn it.

Absolutely - while the wood was fine I would have liked a darker coloured handle

@@baadtaste1337 yeah the previous color looked cool, but it was butchered. Totally agree on darker handle

It's the Wüsthof Gourmet 3 pcs knife set.

Osml swoops on with the deets! Top man.

They should definitely sue if they are able to.

It looks like the "professional" sat on his ass for 364 days and then gave them to his 3 year old toddler to finish off.

@@IanMcc1000 I'd say more like he waited a year to get to them. When the owner called chewed his rear and to get back at pissed off owner he did a crap job out of spite. But you might not be too far off with your 3yr old theory ether!

Back in my day we sharpened the knives by ourselves

@@flyingfrog7847 its likely they sharpened their own knives too, those tips weren't especially sharp / pointy, suggesting years of non-professional, but likely adequate sharpening. I would be very surprised if you could rehandle a knife yourself though, which is what they had done.

Non Dutch speaker here - thank you for adding a pun to this lol

You're not alone!

Godverdomme, jongen xD

What a Messer 🔪 (German)

South African here mess is knife for us

It doesn't matter what you have, just how you use it.

@@fishyfool Make me a cabinet using flint and bone tools then please

I also feel upset about how he was ripped off. There are some people that should do something else if they are not good at their craft. Yet, there are people out there willing to learn or even a skill hand in the craft that don't get the job. It's upsetting, but it's also everywhere.

Hey at least he tried to *solder* them back together

@@XenFPV actually I have been around people who do that don't challenge others without being willing to eat your words, however I do not claim to have suck skill

Kitchen knifes are some of the most personal tools you can find in a home. They are more precious than a power drill. Two good high quality knifes, should last a life time. Remember to give a little extra and buy high quality steel. I have so many kitchen knifes of good quality, but I always tend to use the same two knifes. One is a Danish brand called "Eva trio", that has a thick blade and is a one piece. The handle is all metal. It is hard to sharpen, but once sharp, it cuts through everything. And is is small and can be used for every task. 4.5 inch vanadium steele.

Even more so if you use them professionally if you do food service, a cook using their personal high-end knives vs the ones used by the entire kitchen is night and day

pretty sure the owner of the knives tried to restore them himself and really messed up and is making up stuff to save face

It looks like the “professional” dropped these knives in the garbage disposal. Those handles were rough!

@@JohnDoe-em7of John Doe you genius.

She is very patient. If I gave her something to cook or clean with, I better duck!

I'm just going to say it. Knives make for an interesting gift but if my so were to get them sharpened as an anniversary gift I'd be waiting for him or her to reveal this was some kinda bad gift KZfaq prank.

@@thepinkestpigglet7529 I could be possible his wife is a professional cook like a chef or something and knives are a tool to her trade. I would personally love a custom piece for my line of work as a gift. And to have it restored for me as an anniversary gift would just prove that my partner is thinking about me and what I love to do.

imagine if the wife hates cooking and was delighted to be rid of those knives then the husband sends them here and the horror she is going to have when they come back again... like a cursed doll that you can't get rid of lol

Before feeling bad for the owner ask how much was he willing to pay for this redon and how naive was when he accepted the deal. and keep in mind naive means when you know the truth but want to belive something else. Sure this is great oportunity for this dude to make a good impresion but before crucifying the other one think how much he was paid

Same, soon as I saw the first knife my heart dropped a bit.

I used to cut on the line at a meat packing plant. Seeing the edge on that chef's knife made my wrist ache.

I've been amateur knife maker for about a year now and my best ever handle was cut out of a piece of scrap 2x4

Damn... my initial instinct was right

@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor in my opinion the material doesn’t matter as much as the skill at which you process it, like they proved on myth busters, even a turd can be turned into something good looking if you have enough skill

@@KingLeonidas3202 I'd be highly reluctant to say "I have that much skill" but I get your point.

@@KingLeonidas3202 doesn't count so much when you're talking about the blade material: there's just no saving low carbon steel

Professional just means they get paid for their work. They worked, they get paid. Thats why you have to be careful and look for a portfolio of work. Plus reviews.

Its amazing sometimes dealing with these people, in the steel industry what they are willing to put on a truck to sent to customers, or woodworkers willing to screw up an agreed upon design because they think it "looks better"

Maybe he's Chinese?

@@jacquesmertens3369 Dude.....

You'd be surprised. My brother had a car he was building in for a custom chromatic paint job. Guy was legit, had his previous jobs in various auto mags and online. But for whatever reason he stopped caring. Took 2 years and multiple court threatens to get the guy to even release that car back (claimed he needed more payment for the extended storage, on a job he couldn't get done in the quoted time). Brother finally got it back painted but none of the proper trimming was done so while the outside of the body had the proper look, under the hood and round the mirrors and such looked like a rattle can

Agreed, I always heard never give knives as gifts

ive seen blades instantly break in forged in fire that looked miles better than these lol

The supposedly "restored" knives look like a first attempt by someone who was just starting, a throw away project where quality doesn't matter, only learning to use and apply the tools and techniques. No way this should have been done on a quality knife, let alone charged for.

My most precius kitchen knife, is made from vanadium steele. It is 4,5 inch and a one piece tool. Handle and blade is a one piece in other words. It is hard to sharpen, but once sharp, it goes through everything. It is heavy and so stiff you can not flex the blade with your hands. The brand is a Danish one, called Eva Solo Trio. I bought it in 1999, and have used it since.

Yeah, no kidding. I made my own knife from a piece of sheet metal during woodworks/metalworks in middle school and that monstrosity still looked better than what that crook did to these knives.

HANDLES LOOKED LIKE DOG SHIT

Fr though, that chefs knife handle made me laugh the most. Mf dead ass had a pummel. Like was this “professional” told kitchen knife or medieval dagger? I’m really curious wtf they were thinking with these knife repairs

Throw the knifes away and buy a cheap set from China !!!

German knives are amazing and are designed to last for YEARS. I haven't heard of this brand of German knife set but I have been around different knives through my stepfather who was a homecook and used amazing quality knives. Having been around that and watching Forged In Fire with my great aunt I knew that the "maker" did a poor job to say the least.

@@FreightmareFTW ...

@@FreightmareFTW Ma'am, this is a video about knives

I have no experience in making knives - and I don't think that even I could have made as bad a job of that original "restoration"!

@@stephenwalker6823 i don't know how that maker is still working like that, i'm not an expert but in a year i can make a better job than that, not on a professional level but at least decent lol

i can't tell if its false confidence on my end, but i feel like even i, someone who has never made a knife, could do better just growing up around wood and metal work. It is shocking to see such poor work!

Pride and ownership of one's work is worlds more important than calling yourself "professional".

Another commenter suggested that perhaps the customer was the one who tried to fix it himself and after a year finally admitted he did a bad job and sent them to this guy but said the shoddy work was done by someone else in order to save face. There is no proof either way.. but it sort of looks like it was restored with a combination of not having the right tools and got just enough research off KZfaq knife makers to think they could have done it themselves. We already know the customer watches at least this knife maker. And it would NOT be the first time a husband was stubborn and thought they could do something instead of calling a professional... only to make things worse. Now it could go either way. But I find it hard to believe he found a professional who said they could do this work in less time but lacked both the proper tools and the skill required. If that was the case, this customer must not have even looked for reviews or a portfolio of this professionals work. Because something this bad would be happening every time. I personally feel like the simplest solution is just that the customer (or commissioner of the restoration if you prefer) was the one who attempted a Do It Yourself restoration.

Thank you. I was gonna comment the same thing but found this.

This is why you should ask for a chronological set of references starting from the most recent, back. If its someone thats just starting out then they should give you a deal because their labor isn't backed with experience.

Indeed. People really misuse and misunderstand the word professional. Now, of course, you would HOPE that someone calls themselves a professional because they are so good, they get paid to do it.

true but the more common usage is and this is the copy and paste direct from the dictionary: adj: Worthy of or appropriate to a professional person; competent, skillful, or assured. noun: A person competent or skilled in a particular activity. so it is understandable why people people make that mistake

Seems God disagrees with you, Charles. Proverbs 22:29

My heart just sunk.

It's that little piece of metal at the bottom of the blade that sits in between the handle, then those tacs are put in to hold it all together and sanded down to shape. I only know because forged in fire lol love watching sword making.

@@inquity6 No its what the astronauts drink

The tang is the steel piece of the handle a full tang means the steel runs from spine to heel as a full piece across the width of the handle ... The heel is the back end of the knife, scales are the 2 handle pieces attached to full tang knives using pins, rivets, bolts etc. ... The ricasso (which these knives dont have) is a blank piece of steel just in front of the scales where the handle meets the plunge of the bevels, the bevel is the angled wedge shape of the blade these can be a scandi grind where the entirety of the edge bevel is the only bevel present, a full flat grind like these where the primary bevel goes from spine to edge with a secondary edge bevel, a hollow grind where the bevels are semi circles ground into the blade with a secondary edge bevel or a convex grind which is the reverse of a hollow grind similar to scandi grind ... There ya go basic knife form 101

Disgustang

@@ben68442 hahah

Unfortunately, hacks like that rarely honor refund requests.

Agree! he should have bought a new set for the client. i own the same brand of knifes bought mine for $1500 20 years ago, cant make out these mine are ZWILLING J.A. Henckels TWIN Four Star forged

You’re Japanese, you are used to good knives.

@@aajohnsoutube yes a guy named seraph commenting in english

i almost cried when i saw them. it hurt me internally and they werent even my blades.

Yes, the "finished product" by that hack of a knifemaker who butchered these handles, looked about how id imagine a knife would look, if I let my 7 year old son use it to hammer on rocks and dirt in the garden for a weekend. The tangs were so battered, one was broken right thru.....the wood of the handles looked like, well, literal SHIT lol and the person who sharpened them was CLEARLY still learning how to use a stone...... that chefs knife has the slightest S curve ground into it and I do not understand wtf happened near the ricasso theres a divot how does that HAPPEN, was he using a wheel? lmao

@Jesus has given you all. Repent or die. are you fuckin lost? Lol

If someone pays you for sharpening their knife... you're a professional. :p

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@@JESUSCHRIST-ONLYWAYTOHEAVEN no thanks i'd rather not get molested by a priest

But the restoration was done so well - i'd be happy to receive these back after their initial restoration

Tig weld new tangs .

@@brianhoeckelmann1304 the issue is the weld would be a long one (absolutely not okay for knives) it's better to use a filler if the tang left over is still capable of keeping the blade sturdy.

@@DembaiVT tig doesn't have a large heat band . And you can put a c clamp on the edge and stand it up with the edge under water.

@@brianhoeckelmann1304 I mean it's up to you but I've seen heat warping from a TIG weld before (though I will admit he was less than an expert).

I buy Mercer knives just so i dont have to worry so much if they get ruined somehow. Those Wusthof knives are just so nice and expensive I'd be terrified of sending it to someone to fix.

@@bigchiefsmackaho387 that’s why you learn to work on them yourself

Yes, these are Wüsthof knives, i live right around the corner of where these are made :)

No, they're from the budget "Gourmet" line. You can see it written on the blade, and they're not forged with a bolster like the Amicis. Kinda amazing someone had these worked over twice, I wonder what the condition was when they first sent them out. From a quick search you can get a similar new production set of three for 99€. Well, they're expensive knives now.

@@Anic978 yeah clearly

To me it's obvious the guy tried to DIY this for his wife and is just embarrassed to admit it. It's the thought that counts, up to a point.

@@jynxxnerd That's actually a compelling theory.

I think the guy got over his head and didn’t admit it. Glad they were saved.

i never done any work of that kind and I'm pretty confident I would at least make sure epoxy wouldn't spill.

@@alechanted Forget making sure you don't have an epoxy spill, I'm pretty sure you'd grasp the concept of "and now we're going to use finer and finer grain to make the knife nice and sharp and scratchless on the blade". (you know, the part of the knife that makes the knife CUT)

Yeah. Those knives went from looking like a fifth grader's woodworking project to masterpieces.

Don’t really need to be a chef to know what a new knife looks like 😂 Most peoples knives never stop looking that way!

I never even heard of this brand before

I feel like he needed the full year buying equipment, looking up youtube tutorials and thinking he could do it

You are only saying that because that's more or less what the guy in the video said. If you know nothing about making knives, then you can't say anything about this.

@@looksirdroids9134 lol. The knives look awful even to the completely untrained eye. Even if the interior wasn't sound, you'd think they'd at least make the knives LOOK good, but they didn't.

I don't know either but I've carried enough tactical knives and used enough kitchen knives to know a something's wrong moment here

@@bobbiekincaid1843 i was about to say the same, my kitchen knives even look better. And theyre mass production 😂

Thanks so much!

Same boat

That's being kind, how can the other person think that he could send it back looking like that. Also those brown varnished handles are disgusting.

worse than that, looks like i might have done it

I'm no knife maker or wood worker. I SUCK at this sort of work; I just can't seem to ever get it right. I always flick up, and those knives look exactly like the sort of flick ups I produce whenever I try any sort of hand-crafting. Keeps me humble, which is a good thing. I would NEVER charge someone for that garbage work; I would refund the customer, purchase them a completely new set of knives, and pay the cost to have a competent craftsman do the job correctly; and I'd still feel shitty, because these knives had meaning, and I flicked it all up. Good thing people like Charles exist in this world! He did a beautiful job fixing up those knives IMO. I agree with his thoughts on the maple handles.

@@warpedweirdo i encourage u to say fuck. It’s no biggie

I’ve never made a custom knife and I am confident I could do better.

That's what the courts are for.

You’d really try to sue someone over a few hundred dollars of bad labor? That’d almost certainly be a total waste of time, especially if you’re busy with work and a family.

@@CS-zn6pp that's certainly not for what courts are for my man, too much money for no reward

"Hack job". Sir, you've just punned.

@@legna1932 Courts don’t exist to get a reward, they’re there to hold those untrustworthy (at least in cases like this) accountable. It’s really not a reach to take them to court, as there’s a fair chance you not only get compensated, but they lose the license to sell this kind of work. Knives are regulated like any other product, and when your “company” is destroying personal property and engaging in literal fraud [such as this,] defending this work is not going to be a cakewalk. All in all, involving the court will almost certainly disallow them to continue performing jobs like this. Helping to prevent any future customer from being screwed in this way is reward enough in my eyes.

i would want to put the knives in the jerks back for screwing them up.

@@zebjensen4251 It's kind of the customer's fault. They knew this channel existed (else this video wouldn't), but they thought they would be super smarty pants, and save money by sending their knives to a hack. You can only put so much blame in the "maker". Some of that fault lies on the customer: they knew of a competent maker, but refused to use his services.

@@SergeantExtreme Not even close. One channel is not even close enough to satisfy demand. For all we know he originally contacted Kyle and was told it would be months away. So going to a alternative knife maker would make sense. As the customer said it was a anniversary gift so came with a timeline. Knowing of a competent tradesmen is very different to being able to get them to do a job for you.

@@SergeantExtreme Did you even make it past the minute mark of the video before commenting stuff. Cause around then, the guy mentioned that he was simply too booked out, and the customer decided to seek someone else since this guy wouldn't have been able to finish them by the anniversary.

@@thejadedjester4935 One of the first things I tell my clients is that I’m booked out at least a year so they can make the decision for themselves. If they can’t wait or if they have a short deadline that’s ok, and I’ll recommend a number of other bladesmiths that I know and trust. I don’t do my best work under pressure, and most clients are grateful to be guided in the right direction. EDIT: I just watched the first couple minutes of the vid again and realized it took that hack a whole year to send back to the client. I got nothin. Yikes.

Dude! They are metal knifes 🔪 sharpened and sold! I can get the same from China for a few bucks for a full set!! Re-sharpen as needed, beautiful handles, probably crafted better than slave made rubber stamped wustlof.

@@pandaview2673 Good luck with those made in china bs knives 😅 you get what you pay for kid!

@@pandaview2673 Ok 😐👍

@@pandaview2673 you understand there's more to knives than just "metal", right? Like not all metal is equal. In 20 years, if you get a cheap China knife, you'll grind the whole thing away trying to keep it sharp. You're never gonna find a cheap, quality steel in a knife made in China. The best cheap knife available to my knowledge is the binging with babish knife but even that wonder of a knife isn't that great compared to real high quality kitchen knives. Theres a reason chefs never use China knives

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Thanks Richard! I appreciate your regular watching and support!

@@kyle_noseworthy You totally ruined the post-apocalyptic "Fallout 4" look that the previous artist worked a year to achieve :P

@@TrueFork that was the fallout six look 👀 ahead of its time

Absolutely fantastic work!!!

@@TrueFork the customer requested that the knives be dragged behind a truck down a gravel driveway. Kyle needs more practice with that style, his knives are just too good looking.

"Professional" means you get paid to do it; that's what he gets paid to do. He got paid to do that to those knives. "Craftsman", "Artisan", "Workman", "Artist" are all superior trade names.

I cant help but think with my limited woodwork experience I could do a better job with a couple hand files and sandpaper in a month let alone a year

@@paulmoir4452 I would HOPE someone who considers themselves a professional would be ACTUALLY skilled in what they do. I'm not an expert knife maker but the knives the "Professional" returned to their client was far from skilled.

@@vaporwave2339 I don't think they're is really a connection. Imagine a "professional drug dealer": you don't necessarily presume he's particularly good at it. (I suspect fields like knifemaking where there are amateurs, people who don't mainly get paid for their work, operating at master levels, your susceptible to thinking "professional" = "very good".) Professions with professional bodies that give and revoke the profession title are operating in a different sphere than this "small p" professional definition.

Probably left it a year , rushed it to get paid. Doing a terrible job.

Lol

Agreed

It used to be reputation was everything… but you can’t call something what it is anymore… someone does a crap job and you have to be silent about it.

Great work. I must be so fulfilling to restore things to their former glory. I’m sure these knives are better than new and I hope the clients wife appreciates the gesture; beautiful idea and sentiment by the husband.

I agree, but it needs to be done by the customer. Us guys in the trades really can't do it without look very unprofessional.

professional just means you got paid. it doesnt mean you are any good. youll find the world is comprised mostly of "can nots" so of course the world is designed to protect them.

The guy also had them since his wedding, as a wedding gift.. Disrespectful to return them like that

When i heard him say they were Wüsthof I cringed just a bit. I want to know what "professional" did that work. Holy damn. My heart aches for anyone else unfortunate enough to do "business" with that charlatan.

@@Taolan8472 I looked up what their knives typically look like and oof even their "ugly" handles look leagues better than what the other person did. (by ugly I mean their lines with just a basic plastic looking black handle)

No point in turning way current customers and maybe even future by word of mouth, just cause another did something first.

he's doing it because it's his job dude lmao what the heck was that juicy ass comment

@@TheLifeLaVita that comment is how the world really works, many people will reject someone just because they went to someone "cheaper and faster". This guy doesn't care that they chose someone else and I'm glad he was able to make them brand new and fix the other companies mistakes. I left a shop I was working at because of this issue and its alot more common then you think

@@GINGERale420 could be more common but still he's doing his work. Whether he enjoys it or not it's not other's business, and surely he shouldn't hold a grudge because of the private life of customer that shouldn't in any way touch him. So yea, might be more common where you live or worked, but it's still wrong and totally unprofessional, while a NORMAL worker acts just like it should. If anything it's pretty sad you were in an environment that made you feel the need to point out when someone is acting normally :(

@@GINGERale420 I worked in carpentry making museum frames for expensive paintings and customizing jewelry cabinets for many years. It is common for craftspeople to turn down work that is essentially repair work, due to the incompetence of a prior craftsman. This is because when you are handling someone's property, particularly if it is expensive or irreplaceable, there is a certain amount of liability one takes on. It's usually nothing to do with feeling insulted because the customer went to someone else before you. There are facets to this that you have overlooked. He took the job because he had a reasonable certainty (based on photos he was sent beforehand) that he could work with the damage caused and create a better result. That is magnificent, and commendable. However, think about this: If the "professional" who worked on it before him had been honest about their skill level and turned down the work because they knew they couldn't restore it, then these knives wouldn't have arrived in such a state. People taking work they can't actually do, just for the sake of having the payment or "not turning down future work" causes a lot of issues in fields like these.

Considering they said it took a year to get back, I wouldn't be surprised if the "professional" was a scammer who sent them somewhere super cheap overseas and pocketed the difference...

@@yuzu-tsuyu probably what happened, given the timeframe

I'm a "professional" Escape From Tarkov player but I got like a .2 kdr 😎

Yes, his work speaks for itself! :)

My first selfmade knife looked definitely better than this! Greets from germany

The first thing I noticed was that the coating on the handles was too thick, probably to make up for lack of polishing of the wood, and also coated the tang - unevenly at that. There were jagged lines on the tang from the coating and this was supposed to be for a wedding anniversary, not a fish knife that gets thrown in the tackle box.

The job all around was shit, the wood wasn't smooth, jagged edges, crappy finish on the handles, looked like a terrible sharpen, I could see dull spots even thru the video. Basically the dude who did this should keep practicing on his own stuff before calling himself a knife maker and taking outside jobs on

I don't know I think it's good to talk about that in the comments I don't really like when video makers explain the same things over again that are already explained in so many other videos.

But yeah I saw the same things as Damion Keeling. The terrible finish, looked too thick and also maybe hastily applied and not given enough time to dry between certain layers, and an ugly and maybe even incompatible combination of finishes. And the wood underneath didn't look like it was shaped or sanded or polished well at all. Whoever did that clearly didn't care about doing quality work. Also the pin holes look pretty chewed up, like maybe the drill bits were dull or they got some blowout on the back. The fit of the handle around the tang didn't seem very good either, there were a lot of gaps, and a lot of sloppy finishing work. And while I don't know much about knives, I definitely could tell that something wasn't right about the profiles just because of how bumpy and ugly they looked. I mean basically even to my untrained knife eye (I work with wood, but not knives), the TLDR here is those handles look like s***, lol. For the blades, I saw a lot of dents in the edge and I at least know that that's not right. Also I saw a lot of machine marks along the flats, but maybe it was just the camera making them look more intense than they were.

Thanks, that's some good info!

That's why there is a big difference between blacksmiths and farriers.

@@delveaking1188 you arent wrong ... Specializing in a field makes a difference... Kinda like doctors you have general practitioners (blacksmiths) that can do a little of everything reasonably well then you have surgeons (farriers) who excel at one thing but kinda suck at everything else... Then you have dentists (bladesmiths) sure they have a medical school degree but no one actually likes them their ego's are usually out of control and they usually charge too much for what they do but they are a necessary evil

For a bit of context ive been blacksmithing since i was 9 years old (28 years this year) and ive made thousands of knives...but im no bladesmith lol im better at making hinges 😂😂 i chose not to specialize... And forged in fire is nothing but an embarrassment a glorified my dick is bigger than yours contest