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This is my next new knife on the way from Milan Mozolic. I am really excited about this one. I asked Milan if he could takes some photos while it was being built.

Unfortunately this is not a knife I get to keep for myself. A friend wanted a custom knife for her husband's birthday present. I was asked to be the middleman to get a knife made for him. I had been admiring Milan's ultra clean work and asked him if he could make a fighter using the last piece...

We are putting in a big vegetable garden at my house this year so I needed a new chef knife for all the veggies. Butch Harner made this knife for me. It just arrived today. Not sure of the steel type so maybe Butch will chime in. For the profile I told Butch I wanted a fine tip and for it to be...

Back in the old days I used to ask the knife makers for photos of the knives they made using Burl Source woods. It used to be almost daily that I would get emails with really cool knife photos. Over time I got busier and forgot to keep in touch. What a dummy. Those photos were probably the most...

The other day I was watching one of Nick Wheeler's videos. It was about sculpting a fighter handle but he made a comment about guards that got me thinking. I see a lot of fighters with a thick guard that has not been shaped beyond the 2 dimensional shape. Even from some of the old timers. To me...

I just went to the post office and this was waiting for me. A beautiful Gyuto by Delbert Ealy. Don't be fooled by the bad photo. This knife is beautiful.

The following is based on my experience working with wood stabilized by K&G. It is based on my hands on experience and my opinions. This is not the only right way, but a fairly easy method that will consistently give good results when working with stabilized woods. You might have your own method...

I am on the west coast and have good sources for the woods out here. But not much with the woods from back east. What I am looking for are good sources of Black Ash, Box Elder and Hickory Burls. Stuff that I can cut up for handle material and get stabilized. If you know of any good sources...

This just showed up in the mail today. Joe Allen made it for me. I knew he does really clean work but this knife exceeded my expectations. Thank You Joe! I love it. The steel is CPM-154, the scales are Rosewood Burl. Sorry about the poor photos.

Over the past few years I have watched Greg Shahan's work and always liked how clean his knives were. Just after Blade this year, Murray White posted a photo of a fighter that he purchased from Greg at the show. This is the knife that Mr. White purchased from Greg. I really liked the knife...

This is my very first knife made by an ABS Master Smith. The knife was made for me by Aaron Wilburn who became a Master Smith this year. Here are some quick photos. The knife looks way better in person. Tonight I will be cutting everything I can get my hands on with this. The...

First of all, I am not a fan of man made handle materials. This piece of ??? came from the estate of Knife Maker Tedd Dowell. I don't know if this is something worth cutting up or if it is junk. I am leaning toward #2. But I figured I had better check before I toss it. It is hard and...

Eventually some of you will come across a burl and want to try your hand at turning it into handle material. This is a quick and easy way that I cut up a spalted Maple burl. The same process can work with most types of burl. The burl cap shown in the 1st photo was cut from an old dead log...

When it comes to dyed wood, my favorite color is blue. These two knives came from Claudio Sobral in Argentina. I got the small hunter a couple years ago, and the big fighter last month.

A knife maker and friend ( Ryan Weeks) was traveling through Oregon a few weeks back and he stopped by my work. He had made a neck knife for me a while back and he asked me how I was liking it. I told him that use it all the time and like it a lot. Next we talked about if he was to do...

Since quite a few of the forum members here get wood from Burl Source for handle material, I thought there should be an ongoing contest. The contest is pretty simple. If you have made a knife using wood from Burl Source, you post a photo in the contest thread. That enters you into the contest...

A guy who I get Hawaiian woods from sometimes sent me an unusual piece of wood today. It was a chunk that had been split off of a log with the cut parts showing burn marks from the blade. The piece was no bigger than 7" x 4" x 5" and felt like I was holding a rock. The split surfaces were...

I recently had to do away with Free Shipping Worldwide. It used to be fairly inexpensive to ship an international flat rate priority mail envelope. Now the rates have gone up to $23.95 for a flat rate envelope.

This is a new Gyuto that just arrived in the mail today. The knife maker is Mario Ingoglia from Gurnee, IL. The blade steel is CPM154 and the handle stabilized Amboyna Burl and Bog Oak. I will be trying it out over the weekend. On Monday it goes in the mail to my son inlaw as a late...

This thread was prompted by one from several months ago. A knife maker was complaining and blaming the stabilizer for how a piece of wood turned out that he had sent in to be dyed and stabilized. He never posted any photos so we will never know for sure if anything even went wrong. He said it...