KDs Best of 2020....

[BobbyD]

Wow some awesome knives. I am a newbee (under 30 knives) but I think these are my favorite.​

A small chef I made my daughter. Used ferric chloride and nail Polish to get San Mi look​

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Hunter​

I want to thank everyone for there help.. a special thanks to Gene for helping me with heat treating..​

 

[Randy Lucius]

Wow some awesome knives. I am a newbee (under 30 knives) but I think these are my favorite.​

View attachment 76787A small chef I made my daughter. Used ferric chloride and nail Polish to get San Mi look​

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I want to thank everyone for there help.. a special thanks to Gene for helping me with heat treating..​

That's a neat trick on the chef knife. Turned out nice!

 

[John Wilson]

I kind of went on an Elk Antler spree this year. Not the best pics, but here are a couple that were a break from my norm. I make a lot of the same knives over and over again because they’re my sellers. I think I’m going to seriously throttle back on orders this year and focus on pushing myself in new directions making the knives I want to make.

 

[Bruce McLeish]

That is a good thing, John.

 

[Johan Nel]

I kind of went on an Elk Antler spree this year. Not the best pics, but here are a couple that were a break from my norm. I make a lot of the same knives over and over again because they’re my sellers. I think I’m going to seriously throttle back on orders this year and focus on pushing myself in new directions making the knives I want to make.

Seeing what you build, makes me cringe ever so slightly John. I'm just not on your standard yet, and I am endeavouring to build you a knife...

 

[Greg Rice]

Not in the same league as you guys but here are a few from 2020.

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#3 #3 #3 #3 #3 - Chris - I love that #3 - whatever the proper name for it is - should be Friggin Awesome

 

[John Wilson]

I'm just not on your standard yet, and I am endeavouring to build you a knife...

nonsense! I couldn’t be more excited!

 

[chrisstaniar]

#3 #3 #3 #3 #3 - Chris - I love that #3 - whatever the proper name for it is - should be Friggin Awesome

Thank you!!

As for the name/style, that's a good question. I believe that style comes close to a "Trailing Point" (but not really). Kind of a Trailing Point Bullnose sorta Nessmuk Skinner. It was initially a design from a client and then this knife got further mods from another client who wanted more of a belly on the knife for skinning.

The handle is cocobolo, the accents are brass/black liners and mokume gane. The mokume is actually $4 in quarters stacked, forge welded, and squished a bit.

 

[Greg Rice]

@chrisstaniar - I have no idea what a mokome gane is - but how you made it sounds cool - gonna go look that up?

 

[chrisstaniar]

Basically it's Japanese forging technique with several types of non-ferrous metals that gives a wood grain type of look. Now I don't think stacking and squishing $4 in quarters quite matches up with the old japanese masters but it looks pretty cool!

 

[scherf68]

Wow some awesome knives. I am a newbee (under 30 knives) but I think these are my favorite.​

View attachment 76787A small chef I made my daughter. Used ferric chloride and nail Polish to get San Mi look​

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View attachment 76789Hunter​

I want to thank everyone for there help.. a special thanks to Gene for helping me with heat treating..​

Those are beautiful, we have about same amount of knives made and I need to step up my game.