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I like it ,wait till you start to test one,I know when I made my Bush sword I had more fun than you can shake a stick at outside swinging it around and chopping stuff up.

Thanks opaul,it really comes down to taking your time and not rushing any of the steps.

Thanks Dennis, from what I can ascertain a California knife or Bowie wouldn't be any paticular style except from what I have read the 1800s California makers used lots of walrus ivory ,abalone and other local materials such as gold to add there own fb Blair and bling factor.Two of the...

Thanks John,I was going for a simple yet elegant look for a old school vest pocket gamblers knife.

Well this one is ready to assemble for good,all the parts are fit up perfectly and ready to go.Blade is hand forged from 52100 ,press fit guard and spacer are nickel silver, frame is O1,liners are G10,scales are S grade ivory replacement and the pins are stainless. I will post some good pics...

That's a sweetheart !

I do something similar to both Kevin and Ed,I use coupling nutst as well but also have found that if it's not a inline pull as in the but of the knife is not vertical in relation to the guard /spacer it wants to open a gap somewhere rather at the front or at the butt cap,the remedy I came...

Lol loved Paul Harvey and when I say or read and now you know the rest of the story I hear him say it in my head.

Nice job ! Did you get the hidden nut figured out ? I ment to respond and give you info on how I do it and forgot sorry buddy.

Bruce a frame handle is a very old technique were you basically turn a hidden tang knife into what at first glance appears to be a full tang knife with scales rather than a full block of material. If you look at some of the old historic knives and see what looks like a full tang knife but...

Outstanding Mr Doyle !

Nice little frame handle Bowie coming together, this one has all nickle silver furniture and will have s grade ivory replacement scales that will have a clam shell motif carved in the end,this paticular one is highly influenced by the 1830s knives by Alfred Hunter.

Lol no I dont Mark,it's a nickname from my army days,I was the survival instructor in my unit and we had a magazine reporter embedded with us once,he wrote a article about the unit and called me SSG Wildman Baker in his article. He was from New York city and had never been exposed to...

Well hows everyone holding up with this crazy stuff going on,I came home about a week ago from doing 4 weeks in Prudhoe and will have 4 weeks off then back for 4 weeks then hopefully back to my 2 week rotation.I have about 6 different knives in different stages of completion .I'm working...

Awesome !!!!

That will do it for sure, the one I have is usable from side to side and front and rear so you can also fuller with it.I also use it for other blacksmith work besides blades and its definitely a handy tool.

Finish ground this blade and forged out a nice big drop point chopper.

Nice I had one i made for years and was always repairing it,a couple of months ago a bought a commercially made one and love it,i also would recomend a brass hammer,i got a 2 pounder from HF for around 15 dollars.

Congratulations Mr Doyle.