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Second knife I made, age 17, 1980 (made my first one when I was 15, but that one is lost). Made entirely with hand tools.

Scrounged a car leaf spring from the local tip, cut/broke it in half,...

This weekend just past finished off an Elmax blank I made four+ years ago (Uddeholm Elmax: C 1.7%; Si 0.8%; Mn 0.3%; Cr 18%; Mo 1.0%; V 3.0%).
Overall length 243 mm, blade length 120 mm, blade...

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...

A couple more knives made recently, a half tang stumpy skinner and full tang drop point.

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Did the N695 maybe 15 years ago, only one of them, a small drop point. Came out OK but I mainly use it as a kitchen knife now. It would be nice to do more work with these steels but <<Time and Cost>>...

Thanks again for sending that one over, from that vid I had a guy from the USA want one but wasn't doing much with them at the time. Haven't tried the CPM steels. Have used D2, Bohler N695 (440C...

That one would be $250, including sheath, delivered. Cheers, D.

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.

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...

Hi,

these knives can be custom hardened if required. A comment concerning hardness, I have read that even files (which have to be hard-as) are stress relief tempered at 175C.

I have been...