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Thank you ! I try.

I heat color using a gas torch. Once at the desired color it's dunked in water.

The coloring is just from heat.

Well here's the finished knife. Despite not being Damascus, I think it still turned out decent.

Ill get a paint pen just for that. I use a marker but doesn't always work. Obvious :-)

Yes I'm using the new grinder now, and I do love it. I'm still using the Grizzly for the profiling and such. Kind of nice having two grinders. The first knife made with the new grinder was one I sent to Alaska.

Birdseye maple

I just finished this today. It doesn't have a home so ill keep it as a show knife for now. This is a full size Gentleman's Hunter that I forged from 5160. 5 1/4" spear point blade, 10 1/2" O.A.L. Heat colored stainless guard and buttplate with brass spacers. Stabilized spalted Koa handle. I...

So this morning I drew out a concept for a gentleman's hunter that I want to make for a knife show in Kelso WA this October. So thinking of what to use I saw I had several bars of Damascus that I already had made and thought that would look great. I pick a bar, a d begin to forge it out into the...

I use my buffer with a clean wheel, no compound.

Awesome knife design ! Now make another one with some good steel.

There's a new grinder in town, and its name is C.R.G. I just have to give my review of a new upcoming grinder quaintly named "The C.R.G." C.R.G. stands for Columbia River Grinder. This is a attachable platform with optional endless accessories. It just never ends ! I have used several...

4" hand forged 5160 hunter for a client in Hermiston Oregon. 304 polishes stainless guard and collar, cocobolo handle.

This knife is for a repeat client in Homer Alaska. 4 1/2" 5160 blade, heat colored 304 stainless guard, stabilized Poplar wood handle.

This is a Utility Hunter for a client in Toronto Canada

Thank you ! Yes it is a night and day difference now.

I've been making knives since 1996. Over the years I've been using mostly a Grizzly. It's on, and off... I've worked around burning handle material, overheating metal I'm holding onto, wrecked knives all because I had no control of the speed. Recently I got a new grinder by CRG (Columbia...

This is a Utility Hunter for a new client in Toronto Canada. The blade is forged 52100 carbon steel, 4 3/8". Heat colored 304 stainless guard, stabilized Birdseye Maple handle.

Here's the wife's knife

Here's a second one going to the same client. This one is for his wife.