Thread: Show me your knives

Beautiful timber, I like your style!

Just finished this small hunting knife.
1075 carbon steel, handle is made from wife's old fruit bowl (stabilized it), brass pins, black G10 liner and old .223 cartridge used for lanyard hole.

Here’s one from the past - a Gerber ‘Big Hunter’ model from the early 1960s. Carbon steel blade, cast-on aluminium handle, and the whole thing spayed with molten stainless steel.

It wasn’t easy to buy a decent knife in N Z in those days - most shops seemed to offer only Solingen, Green River, and cheap, often anonymous makes. I tried various models and wasn’t too impressed with any of them. If you knew somebody in the meat trade you might, with a lot of difficulty, be able to wrangle Victorinox knives, which were great, but you couldn’t buy them over the counter.

I obtained this Gerber in Australia, and have used it ever since. The handle isn’t as slippery as might be expected, even when wet and bloody, but I used to wrap it with cloth-backed friction tape if I was expecting to encounter sub-zero temperatures, to make sure my skin didn’t stick to it!

Tanto Style knife from a file, really fun to make these things from old stuff lying around the garage ....