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:biggrin: after following all the build a long's i gotta say i'm a little jealous but these entrants will be getting some fine custom cutlery. these are the names as they were drawn messerit Church & son jonathan creason franklin patrick GHEzell Kevin the prof. josh dabney Wade...

I've kinda been on a forging frenzy lately, but i haven't been finishing a whole lot of them. Well that stopped this week finally got a few done. this is my belduque inspired pointy knife. Often time i'll put a good bit of belly on my knives this is truly the first penetrating knife i've...

a bit of a departure for me. OAL 14" Blade 7 1/2" 5160 full tang with cotton cord wrapped handle sealed with black dyed shellac. Turks head bolster is paracord.

the good thing Kevin is that i really dont grind:1:, but i have caught my beard on fire once when i was checking the blade for straightness, smelled horrible.:lol: Craig: The forge started out as an old freon canister i picked up at one of the local salvage yards. I cut holes in the top and...

I was able to pick these up from stormcrow.

lets make a little knife. Tool and forge ready. start with a piece of 1075/80 I like to start with a preform tip for convenience. into the forge. Forging out the tang. decided to make a scale tang. onto the bevels. a little...

i can post the pics we took between the vids if you want.

here's why.

Well it's kinda small for me. I was at stormcrows shop today trying to bogart a bit of steel, he catches me and and chucks me a 1"X1"X1/4" chunk of 5160. Well i was up for the challenge. and a couple more i was working on for a group shot.

the great thing is that its an evenly distributed 1lb 9oz. i like my knives to be fast in the hand:biggrin:

Actually i had never seen a smatchet before. I can see some similarities though. I hope the pic can give a sense of scale.

I call it the navi pocket knife stormcrow calls it the skillet. It has a 10" blade 3" wide. The handle is a re-purposed hickory handle. The tang is is 5" long and burned into the handle. A cotton cord with rawhide overlay wrap round out this blade.

so does that imply that a simple knife can't be a well made knife.:les: for me it was about making a knife with as little as possible. Out of that grew a desire to not make knives like everybody else. for me i always equate knife making with making music. in music you may start by imitating...

there probably 1095 or the European equivalent EN9. but i could be wrong

i shant resell this, unless someone wants to pay $10000000000 for it :biggrin: the spine is a touch over 1/8", and while the edge doesn't fall into nessmuk thinness, it did do all the slicing chores i put it through this weekend.

made a sheath for it today.

the blades a little over 8" and its 2 1/4" wide.

been HT for the past couple of days, this one is almost done.

There both made out of 1084.

this is my interpretation of a dagger/fighting knife. I love it cause it looks like a giant tooth. handle is a couple of layers of jute with a bowers wrap. sealed in with some shellac and superglue. and this is a fighting skinner.