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Figure I’ll share how I do some of my handles, after the thread about wa handles. I did not come up with this idea, this came from an ancient Finnish knife I had. They would burn the tang into a piece of wood, then carve designs into the wood handle, wrap the handle in damp leather, and pour it...

The K980 looks pretty close to 80CRV2. I think you could expect similar results with similar HT. Bohler says on their website to use an austenizing temp of 800c/1472f and oil quench. That all checks out. The S200, they have that info on their site as well, and the recommend about 2250f and...

I’ll post it up tomorrow morning. I’ll have to make a couple drawings in the morning, I don’t have pictures, but it’s really quick and easy.

Yeah that’s a wa handle thing. Might want to go a little bigger than .25. That’s a pretty small tang, I believe most people are doing 3/8”. It is a pretty neat construction process. I have a different method for chefs knives I really like. It’s very similar but involves resin casting instead of...

I didnt think of that but yeah ironwood smells pretty “farty”. Bocote kinda reminds me of cinnamon.

Do you know it’s origin?

Kind of reminds me of Bocote.

Maybe two at the most but I usually do one at a time.

I don’t think it would take a whole lot to be better than what I make lol

I know it is done frequently but are those knives looked at as “less desirable” because of it?

I really really do not like making sheaths. I find leatherwork boring and tedious, and I’m not “great” at it by any means. I was wondering what people think of knives where the knife is sole authorship, but the sheath was made by someone else? Is that ok, or do the sheaths “have to” be made by...

I was thinking the same thing, thin Micarta.

Man that’s a bummer. Broke ribs suck! Broke two of mine a few years ago, I know how ya feel. Take it easy, and I pray you won’t have to cough for a month!

Lol, yeah! My foot safety is….questionable. I do hate getting metal shavings through the holes in the top though.

Been monkeying around with this Bowie for about the last three weeks. Got the guard shaped and textured (silicon bronze) and a handle fit and rough shaped from a 45 year old piece of Heath burl. Gonna try to make the pommel and takedown nut tomorrow, then it’s just finishing. I finished the...

When I had chickens the hawks and owls would take a few every year. Once they get wise to them, they did a pretty good job of hiding when one would fly over. It was funny to watch because they would often see one before I did. When the chickens would randomly scatter and hide, you always knew a...

Is that G-Carta? Nice work!

Hi there, and no that’s not too young!

I dunno, I just make scribe lines down the edge to mark center and then just grind to them.

I used to have one of Rudy’s knives. Used it one day, sheathed it, laid it on the hood of my car while I threw all my stuff in the trunk, and drove off. Remembered the knife after a few miles…..I looked for it for days and never found it again. He made some nice knives. One of them is laying in...