2nd one looks usefull.....things of beauty my good man...keep up the great work.
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2nd one looks usefull.....things of beauty my good man...keep up the great work.
Thank you, the second one is a damasteel stainless powered super steel and is a gift for my hunting buddy and bro in law, sent out on Friday, I’ve got 2 hard core hunters and myself testing 3 of my designs and they are all performing beyond my expectations, my chefs knives sell well as there are far more cooks than hunters in NZ lol, my daggers are play things, as it’s a hard one to make. cheers.
With that steel around 450 including sheath cheaper in carbon steel at around 350.
thats a great offer there my good man......to you knife making fellas,back when I was a hairy arsed schoolboy working on dairy farm just out of Hamilton,the farm owner used to get sawdust/shavings for his stables ...really flash type shavings...from the guys that make COFFINS,bet they have some awesome offcuts just going begging........
Here’s one I finished today, I spent bugger all time on finishing it as it’s mine, steel is clay hardened 1095, for a small blade I managed to get a nice Hamon line.
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now that one looks really functional,love the shape of the handle...no chance of slipping onto blade at all.
Mosaic pin looks nice, where did you get that from?
One of Shelly’s knives......well balanced,sharp,shiney,and very practical,.......managed to blood it in November.......does a fine job,very happy with it......
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Helle make great knives, love their Alden and will be buying more from them!
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I was ordering some stuff off Aliexpress and spotted a low cost knife blank https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hand...311.0.0.j7TXhI
Although it says its Damascus, its actually just embossed plain carbon steel, but at NZ$20 they are cheap enough for a play.
Had a scrubby stag head in the shed so lopped one of the tines off that had a diameter that matched the bolster on the knife, drilled a hole up the tine and glued it in place.
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A set of 6 as steak knives might be the go ........
One of my nicest customs - 1070 carbon, stabilised buck-eye burl handle with brass furniture.
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Sure did, it’s been tested a lot this week, it’s good at pretty much everything regarding field dressing so I’ll be making a lot of these now.
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great stuff,seeing it in that setting gives it perspective/scale and it looks even more useful.keep up the great work.