OK. It will be a while, so be thinking about handle material. Sam has a love affair with Bocote, but I think micarta might be the ticket in the kitchen.

I don't remember the thickness on Sam's knife.
I have one I use in .100" 440C that works fine for me.
A little thicker should not hurt.

I might have a blade in that pattern heat treated in 440C laying around that is yet to be handled. I had started on a kitchen set, but never finished it.
Tim

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