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Over time I have supported a number of things here on Knifedogs. Take a read, and consider offering your help. Over the last year and a half, I've had the chance to learn how to eat right, exercise and make some other big changes to life. The result is that I've lost nearly 80 pounds and...

I will be at the Blade Show with a good portion of the stag I have left. There will be big scales, big tapers and a few rolls and art knife stag. In addition, I will have several containers of material available for wholesale purchase. Most of what will be available for wholesale will be nice...

New group of carving knives. Just put these together for me to use. A couple of them are Chip-Carving knives and look a little odd to most people. But they are shaped that way for a reason. Sambar Stag handles The blades are O1 and made by a friend of mine here in Ohio. Red spacer is...

A few people asked, so........... Here is one of my desk knives, or carving knives. The blade is O1 and was made for me by a carving knife maker here in Ohio It is a clean, V-wedge blade with no secondary bevel. It is extremely sharp. The edge needs to be maintained on a leather strop. The...

Master Rich Chen Jian Folded tamahagane steel Perfect condition, terrific polish All the filigree work on the handle and wood is done by hand. Dark walnut wood. The sword is signed and the proper paperwork from Master Chen is with the Jian The sword is currently listed for sale here...

Here are three carving knives I made. 1095 steel blades, about 2-1/2" in length India Sambar Stag handles with ancient mammoth ivory bark butt caps. I'm a woodcarver and try to make some of my own tools. These turned out ok so I thought I'd show them. A friend of mine made the blades, then I...

Go here for stag, mammoth ivory, bone and other ivory. http://stores.ebay.com/Rootes-Group-...p2047675.l2563

Here is one of the more unique and dangerous ways to cut a mammoth tusk section. I took the original tusk section and cut it into three pieces each over 5" long. This first piece was split in two. Then it was stood on the band saw on its end, and the bark was sawn off the core. Then a...

Well, here goes. I took some pics today while cutting ivory. Just the camera in my iPhone, so nothing fancy. This is the sequence for cutting one piece of bark that weighed about 2 pounds. As you can see from the pic, it has already been surfaced to expose the color, then sanded and given a...

For those of you who have never seen this done before. Just interesting. This Roll yielded a pair of scales and a spare. The pair was a good enough match to keep together. I'll have to cut another roll to find a match for the spare...

There are a couple of shows on Discovery Channel, I think, that highlight gold mining in Alaska. One of the shows deals with dredge mining in the Bering Sea. Well, here is a different kind of Bering Sea Gold. This fossil walrus ivory was washed up on shore in a storm...

Always looking for good tusks. Thanks, Tim

My name is Tim Balda. Some of you know me and some don't. After taking 2-3 years to finalize the closing of my business, I'm beginning again and starting over from scratch. I'll be doing business in many different niche markets, some of which will be knife related. I hope to bring some...