Thread: Show me your knives

Originally Posted by Smiddy

Birthday present from me mate Josh






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Ahh, you’re the guy from his videos, I recognise the name, happy birthday !

Originally Posted by Shelley

Ahh, you’re the guy from his videos, I recognise the name, happy birthday !

Lol I havnt been in a video for a long long time but yea cheers


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Made this recently, haven't done anything serious with knives for a couple years. This knife and others are what a friend waggishly terms "The knives formerly known as Zedteq". Will probably post a couple of other images down the track. May as well include a shameless plug for a website I set up a few weeks ago NZ made knives - Hunting and Outdoor knives ][ATTACH]100297[/ATTACH.

Knife above : Made of L6 carbon steel. Blade length 102 mm, overall length 224 mm, thickness at spine 3.9 mm, Rockwell hardness C55. Full untapered tang with Wenge handle scales, shallow hollow grind.

Originally Posted by Wurzelmangler

Made this recently, haven't done anything serious with knives for a couple years. This knife and others are what a friend waggishly terms "The knives formerly known as Zedteq". Will probably post a couple of other images down the track. May as well include a shameless plug for a website I set up a few weeks ago NZ made knives - Hunting and Outdoor knives ]Attachment 100295Attachment 100296[ATTACH]100297[/ATTACH.

Nice to see you back making knives. I sent one of your knives to a friend in Japan and it became a little bit famous processing Sika on youtube. Have you tried any of the CPM steels? Cheers.

Nice! That'll make the next filleting job easy.

Saw that stumpy Skinner on your website..... I had to stop drooling

Originally Posted by 223nut

Saw that stumpy Skinner on your website..... I had to stop drooling

Thanks for your positive comment and for looking at the site. The stumpy skinner on the website is actually different from the one above - the website one has a 4 finger groove handle, full tang construction, thicker brass guard with angled front face. May as well put up an image of that too and then I'll stop posting knife pr0n for a while haha. Cheers, D.

Hi all you knife guys

Im looking for a metal working kiln and just though I would drop this in here as some of you guys might know where one is lurking ??
Not wanted for knife making
Need an internal around 300mm square or larger.

PM me and I will consider anything that is reasonably functional.

After grinding up my first ever knife as a Christmas present for my older brother, he passed comment that he really needed a nice little knife for field dressing rabbits.
I did a search for suitably small blades on the net and discovered that Bark River are releasing one called the Rascal next week. Looks like a sweet little blade shape, but in my opinion, a tad small. So I upscaled it a bit giving an overall length of 160mm, and rounded out a few of the corners.

The end result, 1084 steel heat treated in my LPG bottle forge and precision bench top fan oven, double tempered for two hours to 205 degrees calculus (oven switching in at 190 and out at 205), targeting a 'book value' hardness of 60RC
Flat bevel grind to 120 grit, surface left 'as heat treated' and then pickled in some 'Grunt' cleaning acid to see what happened (no much). Camel bone handle scales with brass pins (camel bone polishes very nicely on the buffer - just saying).
Hand sharpened on water stone to a razor edge. Definitely felt like the blade was around the 60RC on the stone.
All of the above was entirely experimental for shits and giggles.

Came out not too bad. Just need to shoot a rabbit now to test it out.


Scales in the process of being shaped


Finished item ready for sharpening

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

After grinding up my first ever knife as a Christmas present for my older brother, he passed comment that he really needed a nice little knife for field dressing rabbits.
I did a search for suitably small blades on the net and discovered that Bark River are releasing one called the Rascal next week. Looks like a sweet little blade shape, but in my opinion, a tad small. So I upscaled it a bit giving an overall length of 160mm, and rounded out a few of the corners.

The end result, 1084 steel heat treated in my LPG bottle forge and precision bench top fan oven, double tempered for two hours to 205 degrees calculus (oven switching in at 190 and out at 205), targeting a 'book value' hardness of 60RC
Flat bevel grind to 120 grit, surface left 'as heat treated' and then pickled in some 'Grunt' cleaning acid to see what happened (no much). Camel bone handle scales with brass pins (camel bone polishes very nicely on the buffer - just saying).
Hand sharpened on water stone to a razor edge. Definitely felt like the blade was around the 60RC on the stone.
All of the above was entirely experimental for shits and giggles.

Came out not too bad. Just need to shoot a rabbit now to test it out.

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Scales in the process of being shaped

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Finished item ready for sharpening

If you feel like making another, let me know. I like it.

Originally Posted by Beaker

If you feel like making another, let me know. I like it.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. My younger brother is making a sheath for it at the moment so once I get it back I will have to try it out on a rabbit. Turns out the handle material is buffalo horn, not camel bone.

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

Thanks for the vote of confidence. My younger brother is making a sheath for it at the moment so once I get it back I will have to try it out on a rabbit. Turns out the handle material is buffalo horn, not camel bone.

@hotbarrels Yeah I like it as well, living in Rabbit mecca I am more than happy to test it for you. More of a folder man myself but that does look sweet.

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

After grinding up my first ever knife as a Christmas present for my older brother, he passed comment that he really needed a nice little knife for field dressing rabbits.
I did a search for suitably small blades on the net and discovered that Bark River are releasing one called the Rascal next week. Looks like a sweet little blade shape, but in my opinion, a tad small. So I upscaled it a bit giving an overall length of 160mm, and rounded out a few of the corners.

The end result, 1084 steel heat treated in my LPG bottle forge and precision bench top fan oven, double tempered for two hours to 205 degrees calculus (oven switching in at 190 and out at 205), targeting a 'book value' hardness of 60RC
Flat bevel grind to 120 grit, surface left 'as heat treated' and then pickled in some 'Grunt' cleaning acid to see what happened (no much). Camel bone handle scales with brass pins (camel bone polishes very nicely on the buffer - just saying).
Hand sharpened on water stone to a razor edge. Definitely felt like the blade was around the 60RC on the stone.
All of the above was entirely experimental for shits and giggles.

Came out not too bad. Just need to shoot a rabbit now to test it out.

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Scales in the process of being shaped

Attachment 103740
Finished item ready for sharpening

Beaut looking bird and trout man. 1084 makes a surprisingly good knife aye