The beginnings of a new batch.

Here are three new patterns for my next batch of knives. I love coming up with new stuff. This should be fun!

Christmas knives finished

Last night I finished up the Christmas knives for my Mother and my Mother in Law. I also finished up a couple that had been floating around in the shop for a while.
They are pairing knives made of 1095 high carbon steel with stabilized pink spalted maple handles set up for neck sheaths.

I am regretting that I only made two. I am thinking that one with blue G10 and another in black linen Micarta would be pretty nice.


This is a close up of the one that I am giving t0 my mother. She gets this one because there is a dog in the spalting of this handle and she has a dog (Lily).

Christmas knife teaser

Here are the last pictures that I plan on posting of the knives that I am making for my mother and for my mother in law before Christmas. Otherwise they would know exactly what to expect. In these pictures I have the handles profiled and thinned but not yet shaped. I am going to have to make myself a couple of these as I am really liking them. However, they will not be pink. I am thinking a bright blue G-10 and perhaps black linen micarta.

Heat treating finished, finally.

Next step: grind off the scale from heat treating the blades then finish grinding the blades. After that it will be handle time.

Christmas present W.I.P.

Here is where I am at on my christmas presents for my Mother and my Mother-in-Law. These are the same ones thata I was working on here and here. I still need to do the heat on these two. I keep saying today is the day and then Mace needs some holding and this gets delayed. However, one way or the other these will get done.

W.I.P. part 2 (a.k.a. What I did while Keisha was at Bible study.)

I figured I would take a picture of one of my last drawings of the knife before I started making them.

Here are the knives so far and the steel I cut them from sitting on my bandsaw.
The knives are so small that I can actually get two of them side by side out of the width of my bar.
The next step will be getting both of these to look like the pattern I made (profiling).

W.I.P. (Work In Progress)

Well here is one of the knives I am working on at the moment. Pam gave me a pink stabilized spalted maple block after the A.G. Russell Knife Event and told me to make her and my Mom (Surprise! I don't think she knew) a couple of pink handled knives. So this is what I did today during Violet's nap.

I would prefer to make it out of some thinner steel, but this is what I have. Anyway, I made a smaller knife so that i could use the wood on both knives. This first one will actually end up being a pattern so that I can make more although I could finish it out if I wanted, as it is made out of the same steel.