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I just completed this one. Bocote handle, O1 blade. Four more in progress with Amboyna burl, Cocobolo, Wenge, and Myrtle wood handles. Lee

Thank you for your comments. Chill8433 see below. Lee

I recently completed this set of knives for a customer. The handles are spalted Tamarind with thin G10 liners. Blade steel is O1. Thanks for looking. Lee

I'm using 1/8" flat bar stock purchased at a local hardware store for about $1.49/ft. I clamp the pattern to my blade stock, scribe the lines, and also drill the pin and thong holes using the pattern as a guide. If memory serves me correctly, Loveless and Merritt were doing the same thing in...

If anyone has a copy of Johnny Stout's The Fine Art of Hollow Grinding they no longer need and would like to sell it, please send me a PM. I am also looking for a copy of Steve Johnson's Making a Sub Hilt Fighter DVD. Thanks in advance, Lee

Thanks for the comments. Here is another one, this time with Lacewood. Lee

Below are a few of my latest knives. Blades are O1 steel. Blade lengths are approx. 2.75" and OAL's are approx. 6.75", Handle material from top to bottom is Wenge, Zebra wood, and Myrtle wood. I had some problems with the pin fit for the Myrtle wood and considered tossing it, but it has so...

Below is my latest knife. O1 steel, Wenge handle finished with CA glue. The photo of the successful hunter and beautiful eastern Washington mule deer was sent by a customer. Enjoy! Lee

Thanks for all the advice. Obviously when I ground the blade, I ground it incorrectly. I was watching the edge which still had some thickness and trying to get the up-swept semi-skinner tip tapered (which doesn't seem to be easy to do) while I was unknowingly hogging out the middle out of...

After. I got carried away hollow grinding this blade and was getting discoloration because I had ground the middle portion way too thin. Maybe I was a little slow today because I didn't figure out what was going on until I looked at a cross section. Lee

I think I have answered my own question after putting the blade in a vise and breaking it. In cross section, the blade was swamped. The spine was still thick, the middle portion was way too thin, and the edge was slightly thicker than the middle. :( Lee

I was hollow grinding the companion knife, a semi skinner, to the Loveless style drop point hunter I posted on the forum a couple of days ago and started to get "hot spots" on the blade. In the end I scraped it. Because I usually spend too much time honing a blade to sharpen it, the...

Thanks for the comments. I am working on a semi skinner in the same style and will post photos when it is completed. Lee

Here is my first attempt at a Loveless style drop point hunter. Shaping the guard, pinning it, and soldering it were new experiences for me. I put quite a bit of time in to this knife, but enjoyed the experience and working in a different style. Lee

This is my latest, knife number ten. O1 steel, Bocote handle. I haven't been particularly satisfied with my sheaths, so I went back to the Loveless/Barney book, How to Make Knives and actually followed Loveless' directions. I know very unmanly of me! Anyway, I think the sheath came out well...

Thanks for the comments. It has been delivered to the customer and he was very happy with it. I have another one in progress with Thuya burl as the handle material and a satin finished blade that I'll post when completed. It should have been done a couple of days ago but our heat wave in the...

Keith, Thank you for your comments. The handle started out as a 1"x 1 1/2"x 5" block. I prefer to work with 3/8" scales, but you're right, I should have thinned it down a little more. Part of the reason I went a little thicker was because I was worried I would lose even more of the wood's...

This is my seventh knife. It is a Caping or Bird and Trout knife. Blade length is 3 1/2" and overall length is 7 1/8". Steel is O1. The handle, as requested by the customer, is stabilized spalted Tamarind. Lee

I recently completed the knife pictured below. The blade is O1 steel, 1/8" thick and 3" long. The blade finish is satin. The handle is Zebra wood and the overall length of the knife is 6 7/8". Included is a hand stitched 8/9 oz. leather sheath. Price $99.00 + $5.00 shipping. Thanks for...

I just completed the knives pictured below. Both knives have 3" long O1 steel blades. Overall length is 6 7/8". The top knife, which seems to be difficult to photograph, has a curly Maple handle. The bottom knife is handled with Zebra wood. Prior to starting on this batch of knives (I have...