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Here is a big camp knife I recently finished and had on the table at Blade.The re-curved blade is 9" of forged 1095 with forge texture and an antique finish,The Handle is a nice piece of elk stag that has a free form copper nugget and a forged curl finial with a deerskin dangler and antler...

Here is a small clip point hunter I had Scott shoot for me.Forged 1095 blade and mammoth rib bone,4" blade and 8 1/2"OAL.The heavily decorated sheath also features a foldformed copper concho, Speaking of foldforming,here are two of my fordformed copper cuff bracelets that I had him shoot...

A couple of years ago I discovered a metalworking technique called foldforming and have been captivated by it ever since.For the longest I have wanted to make a knife handled in foldformed copper sheet and here is my first attempt at that,The copper scales are made using a technique called...

Haven't posted here in a while so I thought I would share this one just in from Chuck Ward.Ladder pattern damascus and crackle mammoth ivory,7"OAL including blacksmith's curl.Other features are mammoth ivory dangler bead, patterned copper band and mild steel handle frame with filework.Sheath is...

This is an idea I have had for the longest,and Larry at Blade Art in Miami encouraged me to follow through,and here are the results.Head is 3" long and was forged from 5/8" round bar 5160,haft is 6" of curly maple with a walrus ivory mouth piece and a mammoth ivory clean out plug.The sheath is...

Recently completed this one for a fellow artist in Montana.The blade is 11 1/2 inches of random damascus with heavy forge texture,OALof 17 1/2",scales are mammoth ivory,and the shell guard and fileworked handle frame are heat colored wrought iron form an old train car.The sheath has something...

Hello All! This time of year has finally arrived, and we believe it is worth the wait! I now present to you the 6th and final March of Dimes Benefit Collaboration: The Mastersmiths Project. For those who have followed us since 2007, this will be the last of these projects...

Usually when I post it is as a maker.This time however,I am proud and excited to be posting as a collector:D! To mark my turning 50 this past June,I decided my gift to myself would be a knife I had long lusted after,one of Dave's feather damascus bowies with amber stag,penny guard,and of course...

Been a while since I made one,so I decided to put this one together. Okay,now that we've seen my crappy shot,we'll let Chuck Ward put it in perspective for us. That's right, it's a mini! The head is 4 inches long and forged from 1/2" 5160 round bar.The haft is curly maple,and is 8"...

A good many of us knifemakers,myself included,make other things besides knives,just for the fun of it and to mix things up a bit. ABS JS Mike Draper and his wife ABS MS Audra Draper are known for their damascus jewelry as well as their knives. Here is a small 3 oz.damacus ball peen hammer with...

Here is a set I made a while back for the CKCA Mini Show the night before Blade this year.The knife has a blade of deep copper etched random damascus that is a little over 6" long,the handle is fossil walrus with scrim by Linda Karst Stone, a meteorite butt cap with wrought iron nail head...

This is one a recently completed,and it was a custom commission.The client said he wanted a bowie,but since he felt stag was overdone,he wanted something different.Well, I like to think I do different pretty well,so I told him of this idea I had.Here is the results. 10 inch blade of random...

After the Little Rock show I sent Chuck home with a little homework.Here's what I just got back from him today. The first one is handled in some unusual looking blue mammoth ivory,blade steel is Chad Nichols damascus,reforged by me.Blade is 4 1/2",OAL is 9",frame is fileworked mild steel with a...

I made these two pieces for my table last weekend in Little Rock,and boy did I have to do some talking about them,thet really drew a lot of interest from the crowd!Now for some details.Both are hafted in curly maple with a Tru Oil finish,and both have damascus blades.Both blades are around 6...

I made these two pieces for my table last weekend in Little Rock,and boy did I have to do some talking about them,thet really drew a lot of interest from the crowd!Now for some details.Both are hafted in curly maple with a Tru Oil finish,and both have damascus blades.Both blades are around 6...

Here's another one from Chuck Ward's lense taken in Little Rock this past weekend.This one has walrus ivory scales,copper liners,heat colored and fileworked wrought iron frame,copper pins,copper and rawhide bolster wraps,forged textured random damascus blade that is 4",8"OAL.Scrim is by my...

First bowie of the year.Mountain man bowie with sambar stag crown handle.The blade is 11 1/2" of forged leaf spring steel with heavy random rasp forge texture,laminated copper highlights,and antique finish.The guard is structral wrought iron from a grain mill built in 1872.The sheath is a very...

You may remember the big bear jaw friction folder I made last year,well here is the latest version. Scales are lower bear jaw with elk antler bolsters, and a textured copper band with rawhide wraps(which is difficult to do on a folder!)pivot washers are wrought iron nail heads.The blade is...

Finished this one a couple of months ago but just got around to getting it photographed properly.Here's what I just got from Chuck.The random damascus is forged by Chad Nichols and forged to shape by me.9 1/4" long with deep etch and random rasp forge texture.Handle is sambar stag that has been...

After the Blade Show in June, my family and I took a vaction my next time home, so that left little shop time, but I was able to get a few things made this last time off.All photos are by Scott Roush, whose style of photography fits my work very well.First up is two neck knives, one in a spike...