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Next the curve back needs attending to and again hot fingers require a number of dips in the water bucket. Finish shaping is done on the 2 inch mandrel I had made so it was time to replace the 80 grit paper I have this block clamped to the drill press table as it allows for 2 inches of wind up...

From the bandsaw It goes to the grinder to tidy up the majority of the curves With this one close to shape it is used to repeat the process for the other side of the pair and when the second one is cut out they are held together with the tempory pins for the clean up. Be advised that you...

Made some progress on this one today with the blade ground and handsanded but will not etch it till next session. First stage is to clamp the blade to the stainless bar and with the drill, mark the first pin hole. The blade is removed and the hole drilled in the bar and the blade returned with...

As the pic appared the handle showed first and I was very much taken with it. dont get tamarind here but that is a beautiful piece.

Todays heat treat and grinding session gives me a few to handsand and start the bolster and handle process.

A couple of new designs today. I killed one of my sheep for the freezer and two of the knives I use were in need of an update. Without going into the mechanics of sheep killing I needed a slightlu more directable handle and the knife I had been using for dicing the meat after it was boned out...

First stage completed sucessfully with only a short crack at the end that will not effect the length needed for a knife handle. There was some springback from the 9mm thick they were clamped (down from about 16mm) to but as this is old and very dry horn I am going to boil it next in black dyed...

No Heikki, that is not from the one bone. I cut three today and at 4 rounds per bone with 3 scales per round that is 12 scales or 6 knives per eg bone for the arger bones and 8 scales or 4 knives from the smaller bones.

I started on a very secial knife today for Henry, a repeat customer. Fireball damascus for the Old Western with very rare fancy Swamp Kauri scales (will use carbon fiber pins) and stainless curve backed bolster with the 3 pin mark in brass for a subtle contrast. With the bar being hardened to...

Having done that and having three of the Light hunters to do with the Impala horn handles I had a serious look at and some research on the usual handles done with this material and many are in fact bone jiged to resemble the horn so I found where the old time horners(those who work with the...

I decided to cut the giraffe bone (or most of it) today to get enough for the knives that are ordered. All of the bones had one end cut off (to facillitate the process for export) so I marked the bone off in 5 inch lengths and cut them with the metal cutting bandsaw. The knob end still had...

Thank you. I will be be delivering them to the gunshop next week. A 560mile/10-11 hr trip but it will be combined with the delivery of another 1/2 doz knives for him so well worth the drive.

Love watching machinery come together like that.

Over the next few days (weeks)?? I will get something on my website with them being as part of my standard offerings abeit with the options listed.

Everything finished now so was through to see friends this morning and fitted the grip sets to get some picsl The story and data card to go with the boxes

There is one hollow horn but I haven't had anything to do with these before so will have to wait till I cut it to see what I need to do from there

No. I will run it through the vacuum tank but no dye. I much prefer the natural bone so will turn down any orders for coloured handle.

The bandsaw but will do a short video at the time.

After a great deal of time and expense the box finally arrived from South Africa with the giraffe bone and impala horn. Much of this is preordered for 7 giraffe bone and three impala horn handled knives but expect to have sufficient left for other orders in the near future.