Wicked combo

This knife I was making for a friend but he really liked the corduroy handle knife, so I gave him that one. I finished this blade up just in time to make a rawhide sheath as practice for the one posted previously. It came out good so I carried it for a while. Then at The Pie Festival this past September I remembered that I had promised my friend Walker a knife a long time ago. so i passed this one on to him, and it now resides in Sweden.

The blade is ground out of an old file, and I clay heat treated it to get the hamon line. Which i might add, came out really nice. The handle is some wood that a friend of mine got at a garage sale from a violin maker, so I am not sure exactly what it is, but it is hard and beautiful.

Completely Hand Made

This knife I am pretty proud of. The only power tool I used on it was a drill to start the holes in the guard, spacers and butt cap. The rest was done completely by hand. I forged the blade to shape from a worn out file. I flattened the sides by draw filing, filing, then sanding. The blade was clay coated and heat treated to give it a hamon. I brought it out by polishing the blade down to a fine grit paper then etching and polishing with paste and repeating the etch and paste polish ~15 times. The handle is elk antler that a friend who owns a local taxidermy shop.
The sheath I built from rawhide in the style of John Cohea. The tassels are moose and elk fir, and the claw is a talon from a red tail hawk.
Unfortunately the photos did not turn out the greatest, but trust me, it is impressive!!

Cody, I hope you enjoy it!!

First Hamon!!

This knife I made to be and every day carry and so I made a pocket sheath with a clip to go along with it. The blade I forged to shape from an old file and then I did a clay heat treat to get the hamon on the blade (the wavy line down the middle of the blade. this was made famous by samurai swords). The handle material I made from an old pair of corduroy pants.
after sharpening it I was able to slice through a single sheet of cigarette rolling paper, so I am pretty sure it is sharp. I am not sure what I am going to do with this one yet, but I do like carrying it!

This is another production knife that I am going to give to my nephew. The blade is O1 and the handle is cobolo with a nickle silver guard.

Tomahawk and an EDC

The tomahawk I forged from an old ballpein hammer head. It was a lot of work but really fun! I made it for splitting kindling and cutting small branches and wanted to leave it looking kindof rough, so i did not sand out all of the hammer marks. The handle is maple, lightly stained. The little knife is what I carry every day now. the blade is O1 and the handle is caribou rib that my parents got for me in Alaska. i already broke the pocket clip on the sheath but it still functions ok for now. I will be fixing it in the semi near future.

This knife was supposed to be a quick production knife. It turned out taking me longer than I was hoping but still came out nice! I sold it to a friend in Houston and did a little customizing for him as well. The NMHU is for New Mexico Highlands University, which is where he went to school.
The blade is O-1 with a convex grind. I am not sure what the handle is, but it is a very hard wood! this was the first sheath that I did leather carving on and it was fun! I will definitely be doing that again!

Mora re-handle

This knife is a Frosts Mora blade that I put a new handle on and made a different kind of sheath for. Really the sheath was the reason I wanted to do this, and I got some practice doing a convex grind on the blade. The handle and sheath are oak, and the handle has a curly maple spacer down the middle. This sheath is meant to be worn around the neck or across one shoulder, but it can be tightened and worn around the waist as well if that is needed. This was a fun project and I have a few more that I will be doing something similar with.
I gave this one to my brother who gave me the moras and he is using it all the time!
Thanks for looking!

First Friction Folding Knife

This knife was my first attempt at a folding knife. I made it as a thank you to my dad for making the playground (first photo) for my daughter.
The blade is made from a worn out blade from his sawmill (bandsaw) which he used to build our cabin. the handle is curly maple scraps from his mandolin making. the pins are nickle silver and the pivot is drill rod. this knife was a lot of fun to make. the hardest part was working out the location of the pivot and stopper pins, so that the blade was in the desired location at open and closed. i also put a couple copper bushings at the pivot for the blade to ride on.
i learned a lot on this knife as usual! and i cant wait to make another folder!

Knife # 8

This was the first knife I made for a customer! He provided the handle material, which is a antelope horn, and chose the blade shape. He had told his son when he got the antelope that he would some day get a knife made out of that horn and give it to him. I decided that, for a sentimental project like this, I would be willing to take it on. The blade is 0.25" thick 440C stainless, heat treated by TKS. The guard and pin are brass. I did arrows as the file work, and made a stamp for the sheath, because he is a bow hunter and I thought that would be fitting on his hunting knife. The fur on the danglers are 2xelk with feathers, and one moose. This was my first attempt at these and I think they came out pretty good. He requested a calf sheath, so I made a short belt to go around the leg, above the calf, which fastens to the sheath with a snap, and included a leather strap to lash the bottom of the sheath down so it doesn't bounce around.
I again learned a ton on this knife! how not to dry leather, continued honing my polishing and sharpening techniques, and especially learned that I am not good at this when I have to hurry to meet a solid delivery date! I tend to screw a lot of stuff up! :) so, no more delivery dates that I cant make:)
Thanks for your business Randy!! enjoy!