Forging Fine
Kitchen Cutlery
in the Japanese Style
Bazes Blades is a one-man workshop, recently relocated back to the United States after a decade in Japan. Each blade is carefully forged and ground by hand, with the utmost attention paid to both performance and aesthetics. If you are interested in purchasing a kitchen knife, please check out the online shop here to see available pieces. For the latest photographs of my work, please see my Instagram page: bazesblades
About
Alexander Bazes handcrafts blades in his small workshop in upstate NY, after a decade of living and training in Japan. He strives to create unique, high-performance knives that foster unity between the user and the task at hand. Despite knives being humanity's oldest of tools, we still use them daily. Through them, we engage the material world, prepare meals for our loved ones, and come into contact with our ancient ancestors. For a knife maker, there can be no higher aim than to produce a piece that brings about a sense of harmony in the user, drawing his or her mind closer to the tool, to the workpiece being effortlessly cut, and to the people for whom the work is being done.