Handcrafted knife with a wagon wheel wood handle resting on its wagon wheel display stand on a rustic wooden surface
Knife with a wagon wheel wood handle and wagon wheel iron clad blade on a victorian wagon wheel with a natural background
Close-up of a knife blade with a marbled wagon wheel wrought iron pattern against a natural background
Knife with a wagon wheel wood handle on a victorian rustic wagon wheel surface
Knife with a wagon wheel wood handle resting against its wagon wheel display stand on a wooden surface
Knife with a wagon wheel wood handle on a wooden surface
Benjamin holding a large victorian wrought iron wagon wheel from the historic Opaki Racecourse.
Historical black and white photo of the Opaki Race Course building with text about the Masterton Opaki Jockey Club and racing history.
Photograph of three ladies at the Masterton Racing Club's meeting at the Opaki Race Course in 1920. A large crowd of race-goers is in the background.

Wagon Wheel Kitchen Chopper

$2,000.00
$2,000.00
The materials for this knife rested against the historic Opaki Racecourse stables for more than a century, untouched as motorised vehicles with wheels of alloy and tyre's of rubber roared past and the seasons flashed by. Then, one fateful day Benjamin came along and everything changed...

He hand-forged an integral blade with 80CrV2 clad in the salvaged wrought iron, nickel accents highlighting century-old grain. The weathered hardwood handle and custom display stand he shaped from the same weathered wagon spoke.

Once part of a wagon that rolled through Wairarapa's pioneering days and Opaki's racecourse era, this wheel's wrought iron and --wooden spoke now form a powerful chopper—raw strength reborn.

Blade length: 180mm 
Overall length: 295mm 
Year: 2025
Artist: Benjamin Madden

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