Recent content by Bowland

Be thankful and protect it with everything you have.

A few points on this from a British knife maker. Knives are the weapon of choice for street dealers. Territory wars are the one single item that has upped knife crime dramatically in the UK. However this is because the cops are basically ignoring it because our prisons are all full and police...

As long as you test. Record and repeate everything else matters far less. Some would have us believe we need to drop a five figure sum to make great knives. Funny but some really fantastic blades where made before we even had electric available The guy that taught me in his final years was...

They look like previously disguised file tooth marks. Cracks nearly alway run from the edges and rarely cross at 90 degrees to each other but straight and draw filing gouges will

I always think long and hard about shape, never really aesthetics or fashions just intended use. On the drawing board to card then to mild steel template profiles. The longer one is most unusual for myself because I don't like recurve design much but it's got just a midges of recurve just for...

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Pair of very nearly finished knives from farriers rasps. Sika stag handles, buffalo horn caps and spacer with brass bolser and transition

Yeah be a shame to use now, part of history

Walnut is great and usually very stable. Do a few guns myself so always have a few bits. Very nice grain for a knife

Cool. However how long have you had that box of shells hanging around?,

That's why they sit in a box. Fine China makers etc they all sell usable seconds though.

I think we all have a few we didn't like enough to offer for sale. Thought many times about a seconds quality sale. They ain't no use to me all said n done

Thank you, just off the mobile phone nothing fancy

Slight recurve to help chopping and slicing. Walnut Gunstock scales with brass liners and bolster