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Added some more pictures in the first post, of the sheath and matching firesteel handle I made.

Thanks! It's 3/16" O1 steel 9" OAL, 4" blade 28 degree inclusive Scandi grind I've named these knives "BushPicks" and they are my take on a knife intended for bushcraft, camping, general outdoor use. I designed them so the profile will fit within a 1" wide piece of steel stock so they are...

Tigerstripe G10, and electro-black finish + sheath and firesteel I used my etching machine to darken the steel on this knife before the final edge grinding, and again after finishing the handle to darken the exposed tang. Thanks for looking!

Tom, the material is O1 steel. You can use a typical knife etching machine set to A/C current, and instead of using a stencil to etch a logo, you just wipe the etching pad over the surface of the blade to darken it. Make sure the surface is clean and sanded or blasted tot he grit you prefer...

I got to messing around with my etcher, and made a nice electrically induced patina on a blade. Turns it a nice black color. I wish I had though to mask an area so I could put my mark on there! :D Hopefully I'll get some time to put some handles on it this week. I'm planning to use...

Thanks guys! Yes, I stitched the sheath by hand. I actually have a step-by step assembly pictorial I could post here for making the sheath. I might do that if I get some time later on. The firsteel is one that I just carry in my pocket all the time. I have plans to eventually make a 3 piece...

Thanks for the suggestions! I wound up ordering one of the step drill bits to use and it seems to have worked out ok. I do want to try the gorilla glue sometime soon. I ordered a blast cabinet to try for gluing surface prep so that should help a bit. I need to make some guides and jigs for...

This one is patterned after the classic woodlore. It's my first time using Loveless bolts and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Specs are: 9" Overall length 4 - 1/4" Blade 5/32" thick O1 steel Brass/Stainless Loveless bolts Brass lanyard tube Red liners Desert Ironwood...

Well I read the "glue wars" thread and it seems the gorilla glue was the best performer for wood to metal bonds, the only pitfall being the stuff the expands out from the glue joints getting in places you can't easily clean up like the ricasso. So my plan is to leave a bit of a gap at the front...

I've been doing a bit of reading today and while I didn't read all 19 pages of the glue wars thread on that other knife forum, I did read some of the conclusions. It has me wanting to work out a way to keep the bolsters clean and use gorilla glue for the scales, anyway. But on to my...

Hmm... I have a friend on another forum who offered to have one of my blades tested by a friend of his, so I'm going to send him one that I tempered at 425. I'll have to grind/sand off any scale and decarb layer to make sure he gets an accurate reading. And of course I understand that a reading...

Thanks for the replies. I tempered a blade at 425 degrees, then cleaned it up and re-tempered at a higher temp, 450 degrees. When it came out of the oven it was blue all over. I was concerned that the blue color meant it had gone too soft.

Thanks Doug. I ordered a hardness testing file that has a nominal hardness of RC60 but can vary from 60 to 62. My plan is to harden some test pieces of steel, then temper at 325 degrees and test with the file. Then I can just keep tempering hotter in 25 degree increments until the file starts...

I have a couple of O1 stock removal blades that I have hardened and tempered, but I feel like I tempered them too hot and want to heat treat them again and shoot for a lower tempering temperature. What time and temperature should I program my kiln to for re-treating these blades? Can I...

Thanks! I see you're in Tylertown. I actually did some oil and gas title work in Walthall county for a couple of months there a few years ago. I remember eating at May's restaurant. Pretty good lunch buffet!

I made this knife for a friend who was visiting for a few days. In the process, I had him do a lot of the grunt work and I touched it up and smoothed out the finer details. I'm still learning, but I was able to use this build to do a little teaching as well. I used 3/16" O1...

Pedro, it looks fantastic! For your etcher, all you need is an A/C transformer. If you have a little electronics knowledge you can probably convert an old cell phone charger into an etcher by removing the rectifier out of it.

Thanks guys! This was still not quite "perfect" but I have two more blanks that finished tempering yesterday so sometime in the next few days I will get them handled and finished.

Thanks for all the replies! I use a grinding jig I built from 2" aluminum angle. I'm out in Carbon County. I know there's another maker in Moab, Walter Davis. I have one of his knives. And I saw a guy who makes pattern welded knives from Castle Dale at a gem and mineral show recently. Lots of...

The specs for this knife are: 5/32" O1 5" Blade 10" overall length Brass hardware Yellow G10 liners Bolivian rosewood scales It has a 5 degree primary flat grind, and a 16 degree edge bevel. Thanks for looking!