TimGinMN
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
I'm pretty new here and can't compare my work to the veteran knifemakers in this group, but I'm having fun. I'm not a metal worker or into forging, mostly a woodworker. Thought I'd share a few items with you. A couple of recycle projects and a kit or two I finished or am working on. I like to scour the local thrift stores, yard sales and goodwill clearance center for usable blades and handle materials. Much cheaper to screw up on that stuff while I figure out what I'm doing... maybe I'll graduate to buying better blades someday.
This is an old Rapala filet knife blade that needed a new handle. Paid $1 for a deer antler candle holder at a thrift store and the corian spacer is a counter sample piece from Home Depot. Wood is walnut.
![69327 69327](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50211-67b2df7afd76603b6e8f7d59474338ae.jpg)
This is a Sarge letter opener "kit" from Rockler I made for my wife for mothers day. Scales are Bocote.
Been finding a few Chicago Cutlery knives at yard sales lately for about a dollar apiece. Put a new Purpleheart handle on this one.
![69330 69330](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50214-69ce74f86d8a184e9b6c564125ce2531.jpg)
![69329 69329](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50213-57e190a5b8730fd0cd31b52df10915e7.jpg)
Found a little Maple(?) burl birdhouse at the Goodwill store for $2 and thought I might get some nice handle scales out of it.
It's part of my current WIP... ![69333 69333](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50217-f133ce6fe4aa3489a178c0e4cc587d68.jpg)
Here's just some other kit knives I've done since starting this hobby last Fall in an effort to give some unique Xmas gifts to family members...
![69338 69338](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50222-f6bb48a4b639070c21fbbcf231aad4a2.jpg)
![69337 69337](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50221-df917c74bc26df6a50caa3cff740fecc.jpg)
Thanks for viewing! (working on my photography techniques too!)
I'm pretty new here and can't compare my work to the veteran knifemakers in this group, but I'm having fun. I'm not a metal worker or into forging, mostly a woodworker. Thought I'd share a few items with you. A couple of recycle projects and a kit or two I finished or am working on. I like to scour the local thrift stores, yard sales and goodwill clearance center for usable blades and handle materials. Much cheaper to screw up on that stuff while I figure out what I'm doing... maybe I'll graduate to buying better blades someday.
This is an old Rapala filet knife blade that needed a new handle. Paid $1 for a deer antler candle holder at a thrift store and the corian spacer is a counter sample piece from Home Depot. Wood is walnut.
![69327 69327](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50211-67b2df7afd76603b6e8f7d59474338ae.jpg)
This is a Sarge letter opener "kit" from Rockler I made for my wife for mothers day. Scales are Bocote.
![69328 69328](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50212-a989f6b23730434a5d9f5101e4ec936a.jpg)
Been finding a few Chicago Cutlery knives at yard sales lately for about a dollar apiece. Put a new Purpleheart handle on this one.
![69330 69330](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50214-69ce74f86d8a184e9b6c564125ce2531.jpg)
![69329 69329](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50213-57e190a5b8730fd0cd31b52df10915e7.jpg)
Found a little Maple(?) burl birdhouse at the Goodwill store for $2 and thought I might get some nice handle scales out of it.
![69332 69332](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50216-85e740df731832f17b207c5dba6b6ce0.jpg)
![69333 69333](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50217-f133ce6fe4aa3489a178c0e4cc587d68.jpg)
Here's just some other kit knives I've done since starting this hobby last Fall in an effort to give some unique Xmas gifts to family members...
![69334 69334](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50218-627f5c87ed9db49e61fdd55531c740cc.jpg)
![69336 69336](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50220-52cb025cdd85f67e2a4093c845f4f947.jpg)
![69338 69338](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50222-f6bb48a4b639070c21fbbcf231aad4a2.jpg)
![69337 69337](https://knifedogs.com/data/attachments/50/50221-df917c74bc26df6a50caa3cff740fecc.jpg)
Thanks for viewing! (working on my photography techniques too!)