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new one of the bench forged 1075 integral with a banksia pod and resin handle
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new one of the bench forged 1075 integral with a banksia pod and resin handle
Here's my first crack at making a knife, nowhere near as good as what you fellas are making.
My metal work is rough but I think that suits the "reclaimed" sheep shear aspect and the blade is plenty sharp.
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Does anyone know where I can get a decent Leather sheath made for it?
Try saddlers.
Mate is one and he can make a good one.
Try John Leth.
Makes awesome gear, and very reasonable. He is in Auckland.
johnoleth@gmail.com
Hey mate, the shears had an existing clip(?) or something welded to the handle where I drilled out and put the brass pin in. Then I beat the shit out of the handle with a ball peen to fit the antler and once it looked like a good enough fit I 2 part epoxied under the steel handle across the antler. Seems sturdy as, just a bit concerned the shiny handle may blow my cover bush stalking.
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The Fang seeing some action at last.... @viper this is wicked sharp mate!!!!
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Thanks for the contact @Ross Nolan Johns a good bugger and does awesome work.
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So trying to clear my Christmas orders, 4 to get out.
Here's the first.
Viper model in 1084, stabilized Rimu, Yellow Russian Burlap micarta and Green canvas Micarta.
G10 pins and liners. Attachment 184552
Fish and game ready to go.
Rwl 34 stainless @ 60-61rc. Swamp kauri and g10 handle with micarta liners.
Should make an awesome all purpose feild knife. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c647387c0b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7da45f11e6.jpg
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Beautiful
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Mamba model hunter in 1084.
Stabilized Pohutakawa with G10 liners and pins. Acid etched ricasso.
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Thats a beauty
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Just had my 60th on the weekend & was gifted these custom F1, S1 and A1 Fallknivens by the crew ,back when we were traveling around Oz in our Mitzi 4x4 Canter Camper ,we would drop the camper off in remote mountain spots & go Sambar hunting for a couple of weeks at a time ,we got to know & become good friends with a few of the keen Hound teams as they would hunt during the week & it ended up they would share our camp & leave gear with us rather than carting it back & forth .
One of the blokes was a very talented Knife maker & he custom made these to my specs ,unbeknown to me, mates had been cunningly squizzing me on what l thought was a perfect hunting knife set up around the camp fires while we were away hunting .
I have always liked the larger Fallknivens for field dressing/butchering but have big hands so found the handles on the small side & we do a lot of Jet Boat hunting & a couple of Stewart Island boat, Fiordland expeditions each year,so wanted a Kydex sheath & a large camp/boat knife . He custom made the larger handles & Kydex Sheaths for me & reground them ,they have already done a couple Deer,Pigs & Goats each .
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The big one definitely has some of that crocodile Dundee look :-)
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Not really hunting related, or maybe it is from the food prep hunting side.
Venom K tip kitchen knife. 14c28n, stabilized Pohutakawa, curly maple and purple juma composite handles. This one is for a Kiwi based in Colorado over the ski season. Might be carving Turkeys with this one
Louie, that repurposed sheep shear knife is awesome - I've never seen anything like it. Clever idea. I love this thread for all the professional knives being shown, but also for all those hobbyists "having a go" making their own. I might track down some shears myself...
Cheers mate, I saw some other guys have a crack at it on here and I figured I'd have a go too. I'll use the other blade with the makers stamp to make a nicer one when I've got the right antler.
The old shears tend be decent German steel and anywhere from $15-50 on trade me.
This is my first hunting knife..... it started life as a standard Green River Skinner style that all shepherds used to use.
I replaced the wooden handle with a piece of Antler and used it like that for years before it got deemed not fit for purpose and left in the hunting cupboard for about 30 years.
Then one long wet day, I dug it out and took a sanding block to the Antler which improved it immensely.
But the big swept skinning shaped blade still grated with me, so on another long wet day, I shortened the blade and reshaped it to a clip point....... far more user friendly.
I managed to bludge a bit of leather and made it a new sheath on another slow wet week
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Bottom knife is the original Bark River skinner. Great knife.
Top one is the latest iteration just produced (different handle)
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Boomslang model, pearlescent green resin and maple burl handle scales.
14c28n stainless, full grind with tapered tang.
Blooded
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Your knives are stunning @viper !
+1
The combination of a Wolf River (original version as per @Tahr brown handle photo) and a Fox River make the ideal skinning and boning combination.
Here are my main knives, most have a particular use, Mercator copy, travels in pocket and comes hunting, orange handle broken blade filleting knife is a trout backbone remover, black handle ex pig sticker is my skinning knife, wooden handle carving knife is my meat cutter upper, the skinny wooden handle knife spends most of its time watching the others work.
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the middle one.....you can buy new..green river bushmans friend...or H$F sell a knifecut take off of it as rabbiters knife (cheaper) they have really good blade shape with small piece out of back of blade....that was knife I started out with 40 years ago and recently gone back to.....ideal for most uses for me....
Mi cuchillo de caza es un Ka-Bar 1214. Similar al de la foto-
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a new one from the workbench for the new year
gomai hunter in 17-4ph stainless steel with pure nickle and a 1084 core
spine shot showing the 1084 core steel
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well buggamesideways...its a plysteel knife!!!!!!
and that is a seriously good photographthe ?Damascus??? blade underneath reminds me of hydrographs ..cant for life of me think which movie starts with scene out of focus in tan colour...just like pattern on that blade. trick of light but those two blades almost look to be joined just up from hilt...a thing of beauty.
Kind of fits in.
I made a nice Oak handle for an Axe head I bought off the internet from Bulgaria.
Revolver for scale
I wanted to make something different for the wife and over the Christmas period. Settled on a Japanese style Nakiri kitchen knife. My first crack at working with stainless Damascus also.
Turned out ok, wife loves it.
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Beautiful.
Bark River, Wolf River model. S35VN steel. One of their discontinued classics.
The 2nd deer butchered without touching the blade.
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