I have changed the direction of my knife making since Facebook killed my page, and honestly I got so busy trying to keep up with orders and filling commissions it became a 2nd job, and not a fun hobby. Now I have all the time to play with projects I want to do, so the last few weeks I've been...
I would say a knife's value to you...is what its value is to you. I make several knives a year hobby level, I kind of stick to what he says on his web site. In my opinion I make a good solid knife from good steel. But I don't get in the habit of dressing it with 500.00 or more worth of...
My 1st shop made Cu Mai blade, I won't say there wasn't issues, but I was able to chase those out and still make a good knife, all though somewhat smaller than planned...lol
this one is a laminated Cu Mai blade, outside cladding is mild steel, then copper layers, then a core of 52100 ball...
I have several etching tricks i do, coffee works good to really darken the pattern after etching with a stronger acid, thats better as a 2 stage proccess, the last damascus knife in this post was etched with acid mixture, then over night in extra strong instant coffee. Sanding with high grits...
So I recently finished a project I've been working on for a while when time allows a homemade forge press. I got around to making the 1st set of die for it just some 8" flattening die. Any way I wanted to try making something on it so I made a 15n20 clad 80crv2 San Mai billet. The forge weld...
Made myself one, I was carrying a cheap Chinese knife because every time I make myself a knife someone talks me out of it.. I'm not sure if I'm done with it or not, I may add a lanyard tube, I may do some file work on the inside edges of the liners, have not decided. This is the 1st "old...
Just finished triplets, 3 in D2, copper bolsters, good old ironwood scales, blue g10 liners. Sheaths are 8-90z veggie tanned leather let's say 10 inches total. This is like 3 plus weeks of spare time and partial weekends for me anymore.
Thanks all, I don't get to make as many knives as I use to for several reasons but the main reason is to hang out with wife, kids and grand kids, plus the regular 9-5, plus archery hunting, plus bow fishing, plus regular fishing etc...lol. I moved pretty much all my knife activity to my...
Well I made my 1st straight razor out of ball bearing steel (52100) its a 7/8 straight razor made from .26 inch thick 52100 carbon steel. I got up enough nerve to shave with it, it worked, I do not have anything to compare with so not sure how well it worked. Handle is burlap micarta.
These...