MCx Johnsson × Krichbaum

This collaboration came together the best way these things can — organically. The MCx projects had found a real following among the kitchen knife enthusiasts on the forums, and out of that community came a specific request: a piece built around Damasteel's Björkmans Twist, with Jonas Johnsson as a contributor. As the project took shape the lineup shifted, and bringing in Simon Krichbaum felt like the natural move. In the end, a better result couldn't have come from a plan — it was guided into being by the enthusiast community that asked for it.

What made it work is what the two makers already share. A passion for knives that live between two worlds, where traditional methods meet contemporary ones and neither gives way. A love of the same materials and the same restraint — exotic and rare timbers, clean designs with a rustic, organic honesty, and that quiet tension between natural and polished surfaces. And, above all, a fascination with steel: blending and working unique carbon and modern PM stainless into blades carrying patterns you won't find anywhere else.

The first release sets the tone — a Damasteel Björkmans Twist gyuto, its blade alive with a mesmerising twisted pattern, paired with a stacked birchbark and stainless-steel takedown handle in the rokkaku hanmaru shape. Rustic and refined at once, natural texture meeting precision engineering, old craft meeting new metallurgy. Made in limited numbers, like everything we do — join the waitlist to secure a future allocation.