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About Me
Ariel Elias Salaverria Custom Knives   My complete name is Ariel Elias Salaverria, I'm a knifemaker from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I made my first knife when I was 12 years old in 1977 and since then I was hooked on this career.

Later on I worked as a mechanic in diesel locomotives, in electric facilities and artistic bladesmithing shops among other places, but I always made the time to keep making knives.

I also took all oportunities I had to learn new methods and techniques to apply them to my knife making career.

After many years of making knives part time, in 2002 I decided to start working as a full time knifemaker thanks to the continue support I get from my customers. Professional knifemaking takes a lot of work and effort, but it's a very exciting and rewarding job.

In 2004 I started to venture in the online knife community and this many years later, I still can't believe all the praises about my work I've been getting from folks worldwide.

My Knives
All my knives are individually crafted and hand made. Even making similar knives there will be different them due to the very nature of my work. I'm always trying to offer something different and I'm not afraid to test new materials and processes to be able to do it so.
Every customer can say that they have a truly unique piece.

Nowadays I'm making knives exclusively in a variety of damascus steels that I forge myself on my shop. I specially like San Mai damascus as it allows users to have a very usefull hard edge while keeping all the beauty of the different damascus patterns on the sides.

I usually use steels like 52100, 5160, 1010, 1070, 1085 (cable), D2, O1 and N678.

I've developed a personal technique to forge steel cable showing the strands, leaving no hammering marks and I really like the rough patterns I get from cable.

For handle materials I mostly use local woods, sheep horn, deer or antelope stag and micarta that I make in my own shop. For guards, pommels and general decoration, I use my own made mokume, damascus, nickel silver, sterling silver, brass, copper (natural or enameled) and stainless steel.

I also make my own leather sheaths, although I also can make wooden ones. Lined presentation boxes are also available.

Knives Gallery

Please take a look at the Gallery of Knives for pictures and descriptions.
For knives for immediate delivery, please check out the Available Knives section.

Motorcycle Chain San Mai Damascus Fighter   Integral Slim Cable and Stag Criollo / Gaucho Knife   Motorcycle Chain San Mai Damascus Kiridashi   Integral Damascus and Micarta Kitchen / Gaucho Knife
Damascus and Mokume Jewelry Gallery    

Click on the pictures for examples or on the above link to go to the Jewelry Gallery.

Mokume Crucifix   Mokume Jewelry - Bear Claw Pendant / Heart / Cross   Stainless Damascus Angel Pendant   Mokume Jewelry - Hawaiian Hook / Heart
Stainless Damascus and Mokume Rings Gallery   Custom Panerai Buckles and Handmade Straps
Click on the pictures for examples or on the above link to go to the Rings Gallery.   Click on the pictures for examples or on the above link to go to the Damascus and Mokume Panerai Buckles and Straps Gallery.
Stainless and Copper Mokume Ring   Copper and Steel Mokume Wedding Bands   Panerai Mokume Buckle and Lizzard Strap   Stainless Damascus Panerai Style Buckle
Stainless Damascus and Mokume Crosses Gallery   Damascus and Mokume Hearts Gallery
Click on the pictures for examples or on the above link to go to the Crosses Gallery.   Click on the pictures for examples or on the above link to go to the Heart Pendants Gallery.
Stainless Damascus and Mokume Crosses and Crucifixes   Stainless Damascus and Mokume Crosses and Crucifixes   Stainless Damascus and Mokume Heart Pendants   Stainless Damascus and Mokume Heart Pendants
Damascus and Mokume EDC Tools Gallery    

Click on the pictures for examples or on the above link to go to the EDC Tools Gallery.

Stainless Damascus Fork   Cable Damascus Kiridashi   Motorcycle Chain San Mai Damascus Pocket Scalpel   Stainless Damascus Cooking Spoon

Tutorials and Knifemaking
Make sure to visit my Tutorials section for step by step descriptions for some of the techniques I use and my Knifemaking section for a combination of processes I use to make knives.

This will give you an idea of the kind of work involved in knife and sheath making and you'll get to see a lot of shop pictures too.

Contact Me
The best way to reach me is by sending me an email to ariel@aescustomknives.com You can also contact me on the online knife forums.

I'll get back to you as soon as possible. If you don't get a reply in 72 hours, please resend your message to arielsalaverria@gmail.com as probably a SPAM filter caught your original email.

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