Recent content by DustyMagnets

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Hi Rob, sorry I might not have been clear but I have been buying the blades so far just to see if it was something I could do, I have two more blades to handle and sheath and then I'll be making a forge and making some blades which is why I have joined KD

Thanks John. I see these first few as nice gifts for friends and family, and also experiments in what I can and can't get away with in terms of the materials I use and the limitations of my tool kit! The next step is to build a forge and make the blades. Can't wait!

And my latest one which is a Polish made blade and the same kind of set up as above just with some kind of resin based ivory substitute that I can't remember the name of and a nice looking slice of rosewood. Really got my head around how I'd like the sheaths to be now and the handle shape feels...

So here's number three.... it's a Helle blade with quarter sawn spalted Beech with Ebony and white and black horn on the back end and I made the sheath from 3.5mm tooling leather...

My wife keeps horses and so I found another excuse to dissappear into my shed to practice, and this was the outcome. Small Scandi style knife with large brass finger gaurd, handle made from the bottom of a hardwood door so probably mahogany. Hand made and stamped sheath and a torch on the side...

Awesome work Shaun. Your knives look superb.

Thanks Sean, much appreciated.

Hello to everyone. My name is Ben and I live in a lovely corner of Cornwall, England. I am a welder fabricator by trade, trained in the Dockyard in Devonport. I decided one day to go tour in a rock band, so I left my job there... one job led to another and hey presto I am now (rather shamefully)...