Search results

Hello, everyone! As a bladesmith, I'm always curious as to what designs people like the most, and why, especially if they could only have one fixed-blade knife for everyday carry. Of course, I am well aware that no singular knife design is perfect for all situations and tasks, and I'm not...

Since kiridashi are generally marking knives for joinery, you want the bevel to be on the outside of whichever hand is going to be used, that way the flat is on the inside. This makes it so you can get a perfect cut along a straight edge without the bevel trying to push the cut away from the...

Finished up this little EDC, today. It is hand-forged from a racecar coil spring, with an integral tail finger ring and a ~2in drop point blade. This is almost entirely as-forged, with as little grinding/filing as possible to preserve the forge finish texture. It's light and fast, and fun to...

A customer asked for a railroad spike knife, and gave me creative license to design it, so I stuck with a classic drop point blade shape, but a skeletonized integral handle, which is something I haven't seen on a spike knife, before. I left as much of it as-forged as possible, leaning into the...

Thank you! The finish is an extreme forge finish, which is honestly pretty easy to do. While forging these pieces, I don't remove scale, at all, ever. I never use a wire brush, butcher block brush, or water on the anvil. I want the scale to be hammered into the steel. I also forge the blade...

This was an interesting project, because this entire knife was designed by vote. I used social media to ask people to vote on various aspects of the blade I would be making, and the end result is a 16in clip point blade, forged from a Texas Edition Chevy Silverado leaf spring, with a full tang...

I forged this 8.5in butcher knife from a piece of Texas Edition Chevy Silverado leaf spring, left some of the forge finish and acid etched it, then attached some leopardwood scales my wife picked out. This was my first time using leopardwood, and the open grain structure was a bit annoying to...

This 12in OAL, 7in blade "Foxy Folly" khukuri was hand-forged in Nepal and sold by Himalayan Imports in 2015, with a dark wood handle and brass fittings. It has been in storage since then, and has some surface rust, but is otherwise unused. This includes the scabbard and accessory knives that...

This rustic/neo-tribal bird-and-trout knife was hand-forged in Illinois, USA, from a racecar coil spring, and mounted in a leg bone from a locally-harvested whitetail deer, with leather and copper spacers. The slightly drop-pointed blade is 3.75" long, with a squared spine for use with a...

This acid-washed semi-tactical vest bowie was hand-forged in Illinois, USA, from a spring steel railroad track clip, with black burlap micarta handle scales, black vulcanized liners, steel pins, and a steel lanyard tube. Asking $150.

Hello, everyone! I actually joined this forum way back in 2009, but I never really posted much of my work, besides leatherwork, and somewhere along the way I fell out of the habit of logging in, and life carried on. A couple years ago, I moved back to Illinois after living in Phoenix, AZ, for...

It's been a while since I did an integral socket handle, which is something I picked up from Tai Goo and James Helm, and my wife wanted a gift for a friend of hers, so I used a railroad track clip/anchor to forge out this left-handed clip point, wrapped the socket handle in jute that I burned...

This drop point was hand-forged from a locally-sourced MC railroad spike. There is no high carbon bit forge welded in, so it is meant to be a novelty item or letter opener, rather than a fully-functional knife. SOLD!

I was glad to see you win, Tobin. Congratulations!

If it feels like a leather couch it's probably chrome tanned.

Thanks, everybody!

Hello everyone, I've been busy with both leatherwork and life in general lately, so there are been a distinct lack of apocalyptic postings! Here is an EDC sheath I finished and shipped last week that holds a JK Handmade Knives "Mentor EDC" and a BIC pen (or ceramic rod/firesteel of the same...

Are you cutting a stitching groove first?

Thanks guys!

This is a sheath I just made for a JK Knatchet. I just need the stupid buckle and clips I ordered to make the shoulder strap for it and it's done. This is an open-spine design with an integral belt loop/retention strap/baldric anchor setup, and there is a leather wedge reinforced by...