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While searching for mokume billets of 3/16" or more I came across a website called www.metalpenblank.com that offers mokume gane made by the M3(Macro-Molecular) process and that is quite reasonable in price, plus offers a variety of sizes. Of never heard of the company or that sort of mokume...

Went back to basics on this one, except for the steel which is 3/32" CPM154CM. I've a fondness for the old Trade Knife designs. Wood is some 25 year old Staghorn Sumac, from a tree that had died, and I cut it into slabs; and stuck in a dark corner until now. Small copper loveless bolts and...

The first time I saw this design, it was a picture of a flint knapped knife that was dated 160,000 years ago, and had the exact same profile as this one. It's hung around, I've seen the same, or similar knives in pics/paintings that date over the centuries. This modern version I call the Scotia...

Ran across these interesting scales over at Pat Ankrom's and thought I'd give them a try...Seed pods from a sweet gum tree in white aluminite resin. Interesting pattern to them. The bolsters are 3 metal mokume and I gave the copper a patina to bring out the pattern. Steel is flat ground 3/32"...

Been making this design for a long time. Seems most of them seem end up in the kitchen; which means they're pretty handy knives. The Nessmuk never struck me as being particularly handy in the general utility sense; actually it struck Sears pretty much the same. By dropping the point to the...

Pat Ankrom was kind enough to make me up a set of his pine cone scales in pink resin for a knife for a customer's daughter. The knife is my Model #1 in 3/32 inch CPM154CM. Blade is 3 3/4 inches, and trim is copper and NS. The little drops you see on the knife are courtesy of Hurricane Sandy:)

Originally designed this as an "off trail" knife. The 20 lpi "file" and the flat at the back were designed to work with magnesium blocks or swedish fire steels...and they do that well. The file does a good job in notching bows or snare triggers etc. This one is slightly modified based on some...

Pat Ankrom's STIX scales(dyed twigs cast in resin) on my Model #1 in 3/32" CPM154CM. NS/copper trim. Still needs a sheath.

This is a sort of hybrid Sgian Dubh blade/dagger handle design that I have found to make a nice utility/hunting knife. The 4 inch blade is CPM154CM in 3/32 inch diameter with distal taper. Handle is the last set of pine cone scales I had laying around. The 3 metal mokume guard had originally...

Second in a series of three I'm building using this style of scales. This is my #1 in 3/32" D-2. Used a blue liner with this. The last one will have the silver colored resin.

I was getting ready to build a knife for a customer that uses Penn State colors on the handle...blue/white. I was going to use my usual Ivory Micarta when a friend showed me a pic of his Colt with Holly grips. Nice looking, but does anyone have any idea how fast it oxidizes? The micarta knife...

After seeing Cote's beautiful filet knife with the Norwegian spruce cone cast into Armilite, I had to give that material a try. Ordered 3 sets of scales with different colored resins; this is the first of the series. Blade is my usual 3/32 inch CPM154CM and is 5 inches long. The trim is...

Always like Wharncliffe's; the first knife I made was that shape. This one is on the larger size. The skinner is my standard Copperhead. Both have 5 inch blades. The Wharnie is out of 1/8 inch S-30V and the skinner is out of 3/32 inch CPM154CM. Wood is quarter sawn white oak out of my...

A Canadian friend asked me to modify one of my basic designs, which I did. Liked it much better than my original, so I put his name to it. Blade is flat ground CPM154CM in 3/32" diameter and it's 4.5" from tip to plunge. It's 9" OAL and 5 oz. Wood is Stabilized Koa and the the trim is copper.

I really hate calling this a Nessmuk, because it's not; it just sorta looks like one at first glance. I'd ordered a full tang Nessmuk from Bob Engnath years ago and found that while I liked the looks it was a bit clumsy to use when not skinning/slicing etc. So I lengthened the handle and...

A friend of mine is celebrating 18 years sober tomorrow and his girlfriend had asked me to build her a knife as a gift; seeing as he's never owned a custom knife. He likes fairly big knives, being one of those farmers and woodsmen who like one that'll do anything from a "steer to a deer". This...

Slim skinning blade out of 3/32 inch CPM154CM/copper/stabilized California buckeye/nickel silver. Blade is 4.5 inches tip to plunge. It's been sharpened since the pics were taken, but no sheath yet.

This is my coffin handled hunter. The blade is 4 inches of flatground, distal tapered 3/32 inch S-30V. This particular piece of she-oak has a lot more contrast than what I usually see. Copper bolsters with NS pins and copper/NS trim. HT by Bos and still needs a sheath/sharpened.

My attempt to build a Grohmann without building a Grohmannunsure. Flatground 4.5 inch ATS-34 blade in 3/32 inch diameter. OAL is 9 1/4 inches and it weighs 5.4 oz. Handle is "heat stabilized" maple from a lady up in Canada. Still needs a sheath.

First is a good ol boy in D-2/copper/stabilized walnut Second is my #1 in 154CM/Velvet Tamarind. Third is my snake skinner in 154CM and polymer clay. Fourth is my Baby American Bowie in 154CM/NS and ivory micarta ....and so on.