Thread: Show me your knives

Originally Posted by Tahr

Nice. Nothing wrong with 1080 or 1095. Who does your heat treat?

John at Ripi Knives, mentoring me and doing the HT as well .

Originally Posted by viper

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Something a bit different , Copperhead model but in old school cool 1080 high carbon steel. Forced patina and stone washed.
Atomic Red burlap micarta from the states with red and black G10 liners and rocking the carbon pins.
The stone washing was interesting and a first, hand full of quartz gravel, tupperware container and wife's tumble dryer once she was out of the house.
Had I being caught the knife would have probably been used on me.

on a similar not a mate tried to cook a whole salmon by wrapping it in foil and putting it in the dishwasher (no detergent). well lets just say it didnt go to plan and 3kg of salmon can cover every single square inch of a dishwasher.
they are divorced now !

Originally Posted by viper

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Something a bit different , Copperhead model but in old school cool 1080 high carbon steel. Forced patina and stone washed.
Atomic Red burlap micarta from the states with red and black G10 liners and rocking the carbon pins.
The stone washing was interesting and a first, hand full of quartz gravel, tupperware container and wife's tumble dryer once she was out of the house.
Had I being caught the knife would have probably been used on me.

Hi @viper,

That looks interesting, what is the size of blade and handle on that?

-Inder

Originally Posted by viper

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Something a bit different , Copperhead model but in old school cool 1080 high carbon steel. Forced patina and stone washed.
Atomic Red burlap micarta from the states with red and black G10 liners and rocking the carbon pins.
The stone washing was interesting and a first, hand full of quartz gravel, tupperware container and wife's tumble dryer once she was out of the house.
Had I being caught the knife would have probably been used on me.

That's mint man. Love the dark wash with the red burlap. Such a cool texture burlap, Micarta ill have to get some to play with

Labour designed knife

Originally Posted by gonetropo

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Labour designed knife

Blunt force.....?

4.5 inch blade, 5 inch handle

Hunting knife made for my hunting buddy, made from 1070 carbon steel, scales are made from 30 year old stabilized apple wood, brass pins, green G10 liner, lanyard brass made from 223 cartridge

Stumbled on this yesterday. I thought at 18min I'd be skipping through bits of it but it was kind of mesmerizing and before I knew it, I'd watched the whole thing.

https://youtu.be/12PgGoT6JeQ

not sure how that happened

spiderco bombshell, better made than my other spidercp's but Im worried the grip may be to short- time will tell

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 ....