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From what I have researched they used Japanese Walnut, Japanese Beech or Katsura depending on manufacturer and/or year. I have a fondness for bayonets and daggers and looked at my notes on the Arisaka 30 bayonets and can't remember where I got that information. Pictures of various type 30's seem...

Very nice. The faux ivory really sets off the ironwood burl and ties the etching to to it.

Thanks for the tip.

I hear you about wasting material. I looked in my antler stash and found an elk spike 16 1/2" with another 2" that was below the skin line/crown where it attached to the skull. A fairly long thin one. 1" approx. just outsde the crown and about 7/8" midway tapering to the point. Haven't ever...

Welcome. A lot of knowledge on these forums. Central Alberta (Brrrrr-LOL). I spent time in southern Alberta when I was younger and loved it there. I took my wife to visit old friends/family in August a few years ago and she said "How come you didn't stay in this beautiful place" after she saw a...

Well I knew when I got my first two I would want another. Picked this one up at auction as well. Warthog tusk scales, N690 stainless, tapered full tang and beautiful fit and finish like my previous two. I believe it's older than the others and is developing a nice warm patina on the scales that...

I really like your unusual approach (At least to me) with the deer antler using differing orientations like that. I never saw the need to stabilize antler but I do now. I may try getting some elk antler I have stabilized to see how it turns out. Thanks for the post and the creative ideas it's...

Yep.

Well............Myself.........All I have to do to understand life is to spend the day on the hillside where my home sits and let the birds,bugs and other wildlife show me that I'm just one of them. Not special or above them somehow. I like to sleep, eat, etc. and I don't live in fear either...

Nice use of color, texture and grain orientation. I've said so before and it bears repeating......................Nice work again......

You can learn alot from the bladesmiths on this site. I have. I don't forge myself, I restore and repair vintage knives & cutlery and use others' blade blanks to get what I want for myself and friends/family. There's a good bunch of folks here with a ton of knowledge to share...

Thanks for the info.. I may have to try the hot/cold method myself on an axis deer round that's sanded down to white. Antler is bone but denser I believe. Maybe a winter project...............

Those look really good. I like how they aren't bright blue or ?. The color is believable and looks alot to me like aged bone. I have a lot of old cutlery/knives with bone scales/handles and the color of these looks alot like some of the ones I own that are 100+ years old. Good...

Nice. Those wenge scales should be up to the task on a chopper. I've worked with it and I'd say it's comparable to hickory as far as being a tough wood. Splintery to work with and the dust is toxic. Worth it though as one can see in your photos. Very nice..............

I've never used it for knife scales but I have a mallet made of lignum vitae and several vintage small round rope guides (the kind used in sailing) and have semi-abused them and the rope guides don't even show appreciable wear after years of use outdoors left exposed in all kinds of weather. It...

Very pretty. Spalted Tamarind. Nice.

I don't think it's an auto. Rather a folding with blade exposed partially when folded and then extended when open. Hubertus did make these sort of knives as well as Anton Wingen Jr., Edgebrand and others. Seems to be a particular sort of german design. They do sell for between 2-3+ hundred...

Nice. Your mexican blanket design combined with brown on the handle. Very cool design. Tribal, primal and earthy comes to mind. I really like your overall design on this knife. Nice take on a drop point, smooth transition from handle to blade.

I don't know if this will help or not. It looks like a folding bowie made by several German firms in the past except in dagger form. Alot of them had english language written/engraved on them, probably for export or visiting Americans or English. Maybe some firm here in America decided to use...

Hey Doug I find that using a file card sometimes dulls my files prematurely. I have a hardwood board (I don't know what kind of wood but it's hard) and file on the edge of it to clean out debris. I just run the file at the angle(s) that works for that particular file. Especially on cheaper...