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Finally got moved into my new house and the full time job has slowed down just enough for me to spend a little time at the bench Finished this one tonight for a SWAT friend. The bone is antler from the first buck he ever killed. Blade is triple quenched 52100 and black micarta handles with tan...

I have been trying to figure out a way to really make the temper lines or hamon show up on some 52100 blades while still having a mirror finish. My current method has been to achieve a mirror finish ending with a loose flap wheel and green chrome polish. After this is have etched the...

Beautiful knife !!!!!

Awesome knives !!! those are some great pieces I love integrals, wish i could make them myself but not just yet, until then i can still admire them !! steve

Beautiful !! Awesome looking for sure, and yes that thing loves the camera !! the handle comes through awesome in the pics !!

"the buffer throwing the bolster" awesome, i thought i was the only one with dents in my drywall from brass bolsters at 3000rpm lol Super Glue has become one of my best friends, I glue on all my handle materials before drilling, it works great for me since i drill all my pin or screw holes...

Very nice, beautiful

Thank ya sir !! Merry Christmas to you and yours !

Finally got these finished up today, these are my last 3 orders for Christmas. The first one is a 52100 blade, differentially heat treated and cryo treated. Brass bolsters rubbed to a 600 grit finish, stainless spacers, dyed maple burl accent piece and elk antler handles with mosaic pins...

Here is the very nice sheath made by Larry Parsons of Parson Saddle Shop

I finished this one up today for a customer. I will try to get a pic of it up with the sheath tomorrow, i left it at my day job. This is 52100 single quenched and cryo treated in house. The handles are sheep horn bolsters, mammoth ivory spacers, maple burl accent piece and chechen wood (black...

As someone who asked this same basic question not too long ago I look forward to any positive answers I can read. So far as best i can reason from everything I have read the best solution for me is to hopefully someday try both options and see which works best for me and see if I can test and...

Thank you guys for your info. i am still experimenting with the blades to see what is going to work best for me Ed my buddy Brent Peck who visited you at your shop finally made it out to me with the stuff he got from you, Thank You very much!!! He told me all the info you shared with him...

Thanks guys Eric the shine is from oil i spray on the G10 handles to clean them up, they dont stay that shiny. thanks steve

Being in the gun industry i have been too busy to do much knife making but i managed to get these three done today for a customer all 440C, heat treated and cyro'd by me handles are all G10 two tone laminates thanks steve

Okay, thanks Ya when i am doing multiple blades i start the first blade from a relatively cool kiln and let it come to temp. my Evenheat is a digital so i program the temp and the soak time and let it run. i feel confident that the first blade, which starts from a relatively cool kiln, gets a...

I guess what i am confused by is the soak times your talking about. in your first response you said that you really dont have to hold the steel at temp any longer than it takes to heat it throughout, but then your saying that im barely allowing the carbon to go into solution with my short soak...

I just don't get why this recipe worked so well for the last few knives and didn't work so well on these. I may not be doing the rod flex test correctly, I have only read about it never seen it.

I soaked the blades at 1490deg for 4 min each time. I am using a even heat kiln. My only guess was that I ground the edges down to fine before the heat treat and burned out the carbon in the cutting edge.

Hi guys I made up 3 little EDC skinner knives for me and two buddies of mine for a recent hunting trip. The knives worked well on the one buck we killed but after we have been back i just dont feel like these 3 knives hold a edge as long as they should. HT info is as follows...