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After all those excellent bowies, how about a dagger :)

Here's the best one I did this year that fits this category.

These are my last two Christmas orders, and therefore my two favorite knives of the year. I made nicer ones, and ones I liked better, but these are the LAST ones :) These are slipjoints #19 and #20. I build them all as one-off's, but I made an effort to get the dimensions, etc, on these the...

Yes, I find stainless harder to hide pins than in brass. As far as Tracy's advice regarding grinding them off and starting over if you've got a pin showing, I have had some luck rescuing these with less drastic measures. Use the ball side of your hammer, and a small hammer at that, and deliver...

If anybody needs the application, it's available in two places. One, it is hosted as one of the files in the TKG Facebook group. Two, send me an email, frycustomknives at gmail dot com and I will email it to you.

I just put together a little WIP on this knife down in the WIP forum. The knife is W2 with a bit of a hamon, flat ground with swedges. The fittings are mild steel, fluted and plum browned, with a couple stainless spacers. Handle is oosik. OAL is a bit over 10 inches. This was a re-make on...

Here are the mostly final pictures. I still lack a bit of superglue in a tiny gap, and sharpening. I also have to figure out some sort of sheath for this one. With the oval guard, heavy handle and short-ish blade, it's going to be a tough one to hold in a sheath. So there you go...

I did a two stage glue-up, because I didn't want the tiny finial holding all the pressure. I glued up the guard, spacers, and oosik to the blade in one step, then did the butt cap, spacer, and finial in a second step. I didn't take many pictures, because seriously, watching glue dry... If you...

When they first are treated, they're ugly. Wash off the oxides with water, no soap. It takes 4 to 6 applications to get the color even. Here's a shot of the browned fitting stack. Here's a shot of the final guard fit. "If it does not fit, you must acquit!" Here's a shot of the blade...

Here we are at the end of the first night. Notice, I added a stainless spacer in there, in between the mild fittings that'll be browned later. I didn't shoot any more pics of this stack prior to browning. Fitting the butt cap is basically the same. I used two guide pins and a stainless...

Next came a few hours worth of fluting and polishing fittings. Back when I was a decent knifemaker, trying to make the turn toward "good", John Horrigan told me that the blades get easier and the handles get harder. It took me a few years to figure out that he's right. Here's a shot of my...

There's a few things to notice in this next picture. If you're going to build a knife with a bunch of handle parts, particularly if the parts have to be blued, browned, or etched, you've pretty well got to use hidden pins. Here's a shot of the spacer stack showing the guard, two spacers, and...

I haven't done a WIP in a while, figured I was due for one. I built an oosic hunter last year, and took an order for another. I shot a series of phone pictures for the customer as I built, and thought I'd put them up here as a WIP. The main things you might pick up are a few tricks on...

I need a few small feather billets. 4-5 inches long minumum, 1 inch wide, 1/8 or 3/32 thick. All I've found for sale are pieces that are 1.5 or so wide. I don't want to use the wide ones, as I'll have alot of scrap along the edges, too small to use for much, but too big to throw away. I'm...

It rained plenty, and we had several folks who had to get pulled out of the mud before we could get started, but overall it was a great time.

We had a great time in the rain and mud at the hammer in Saturday, October 24. Chad Cunningham hosted the event at his shop. I didn't get an exact count, but it we had around 50 by the time everybody came and went. As far as demonstrations, Chad set the initial weld and drew out a damascus...

I bought a pack of the 15 minute from James at the Texas event today. Was glad to see you guys work together to make it available.

And Parks isn't ridiculous to get... Maxim Oil out of Fort Worth sells it. I'm with Darrin... Use the right quench for 1095, or find a steel that works better with the oil you have.

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I'm honestly content with a tie. We're so different from each other, and yet the same. How do you compare a pearl frame handle with an ivory fluted handle, even if the blades started out identical? I won an award with mine, but his never went to a show. We sold on the same day to the same...