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Thank you, the ulu shape is my signature shape. I created it several years ago and it has been copied from time to time. It's very popular with my customers. In my avatar with the bear I was 30 years old shortly after I became a brown bear guide. I began making knives seriously in or about the...

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

I think the OP is talking about when the smiths take the blade out of the oil prematurely and it makes a fire ball. It's a natural thing for the oil to ignite when you quench a blade in the normal fashion, no additive required. There is no reason to remove the blade from the quench while the...

Actually, I think it's from ignorance or just trying to look cool.

It takes a really big musk ox to get any amount of material out of for knife handles. For three hundred bucks it would have been worth the risk. Not every bull musk ox yields enough good material for knife handles.

No they do not, they certainly didn't ask us to do it in my episode. They didn't ask us to do anything for that matter. Everything you see the bladesmiths do, they do on their own. And yes, you are right, the fire balls serve no purpose but the camera guys like it and so do the producers. It...

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My makers Mark is engraved.

I have two to show you, one is obviously a professional shot by Jim Cooper at Sharp By Coop. The other is obviously not a professional shot. This is a drop point hunter with mammoth ivory and musk ox horn. The engraving and the sheath are also by me. Overall length about 9 1/2 inches. Next...

1/2 horse is on the week side. 3/4 hrs. would be a minimum. 1/4 inch wide blades are very hard to control for cutting blade blanks unless you have a very good saw. A 1/2 inch bi-metal blade with a 14/18 pitch would be your best bet for blade blanks. That saw would not be a good one for handle...

I sell 1/4 X14/18 bi-metal band saw blades as do many suppliers closer to you, but I'm afraid you need a better saw my friend. Any saw that can't do what you are asking it to do is going to be just a continuous source of frustration for you. I own and operate a band blade weld shop and saw...

Thanks everybody. This is what they look like when people find them. Sometimes in much worse condition than this one but those are usually cut up for other things, not used for restoration. This is the next tusk I'm restoring.

Tracy, if you ever get to Alaska please come by my shop. You can breath more mammoth dust than you can handle. I'd love to show you around. Oh wait, you said "in your life" not in your nose. My mistake.

I cut all the pieces from the same spot on the shell and nest them. No need to be flat.

Thanks Ted

Mammoth tusks do carry their weight throughout the whole tusk. They are also much longer than elephant tusks for the size as the animal and the diameter of the tusk. No, I did not find this one. I never get to find them. It's much easier, cheaper to just buy them from native people and miners...

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People were asking for this. https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/kind-of-a-persian-fighter-build-final-pictures-for-now.1251478/

A medium sized cow mammoth tusk I just finished.

Ah, Mike Johnson. Good dude. Long time trapper, halibut guide and nice guy.