Three Carving Knives (or Desk Knives)

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rootes_of_ohio

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Here are three carving knives I made.
1095 steel blades, about 2-1/2" in length
India Sambar Stag handles with ancient mammoth ivory bark butt caps.

I'm a woodcarver and try to make some of my own tools.
These turned out ok so I thought I'd show them.
A friend of mine made the blades, then I took them down to razor sharp.
They have a single bevel, not the usual secondary bevel that most knives have.
They require stropping to maintain the edge.
The tools would be ruined if they had a secondary bevel.


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I know the one with the smaller handle looks a little odd, but put it in the hand and it just feels great. I'll have some simple leather folded sheaths made soon. The last pic is the tools before I put the ivory on them. That pic shows off the color and texture of the stag nicely.

I like these very natural looking and feeling kind of tools.
Let Mother Nature do all the work to make them look good.
Hope you like them.

Be good to yourselves.

t


 
These look to be great in the hand carvers. Probably might work very well out in the field dressing a smaller animal as well . I say good for you !!! Frank
 
They work surprisingly well in the field.
This type of knife can make quick work of dressing a deer.
The difficulty can be if someone is not used to maintaining a blade with a strop.
That in itself can be a challenge.
But I've been a carver for a long, long time.
Second nature for me.

As someone who loves tool steel, stag and ivory...............these are like magic tools.

t
 
Thanks for the nice comments.

Pic of some of my ornamental carvings. Just a small sampling.
I do all kinds of woodcarving. Big stuff, little stuff, architectural, relief, etc. too
The right tools make all the difference.
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Thanks again.
Be good.

t
 
Another from a crooked piece of stag

I found a nicely figured stag taper in one of my bins.
Great color and texture.
But...................it was more than a little twisted and had an "S" curve thing going on.

I was going to take it home and give it to the dog for a chew toy.
Holding it in my hand changed my plan.

Here is the desk/carving knife made from that piece of stag.
The blade is O1 tool steel made by a friend here in Ohio.
The handle is sambar stag and the butt cap is ancient woolly mammoth ivory blue bark.

Time to have some sheaths made for these I think.

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Be good to yourselves.

t
 
Nice work , I really like them . Have you ever carved any netsuke ? looking for a few of them....... James
 
My grandfather did something similar with his pocketknives. He would lay the knife down flat on the stone and completely remove the secondary bevel. This would ruin the shiny finish on the blade, but it would give the knife an inclusive bevel of around 5-15 degrees I guess. Wicked sharp, if you even looked at it funny it would cut you, and he would touch up the edge just by stropping it across his pants leg.

I think he would approve...:)
 
any netsuke carving , those the little pieces of Ivory carved in a variety of peopl e, animals, and whatever . Please let me know . james
 
Getting some other carving knives ready to put together.
I'm trying to clean up the shop and do something with all the "stuff" that's been accumulating.
These are some blades that my carving knife maker friend gave me a while back.
Putting them all in stag and will use bone, musk ox boss or ivory caps.
Then two will go in my carving bag and I don't know what with the other three.


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Thank you for the many nice comments and emails.

Be good to yourselves.

t
 
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