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Oops, forgot to post a couple again!

4" Magnacut drop point with orange AmeraGrip handle scales with thick, vintage natural micarta liners. Customer has big hands, so I made the handle a bit chonkier for his hands!
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I did a different method for the jimping on this one. I used a side cutting bit in the Dremel to cut them so the bottoms would be rounded. I marked out the spine before cutting into it, but next time, I will use the Cricut and the stencil I used for the electro etching to make it easier to keep the gaps even.

It's just over 3/8" scales and the liners were .070 IIRC? This is before the oil was put on the handle and the orange stays nice and bright!
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I've been wanting to do a handrub flat/high polish satin blade bevel for a while, but I struggled getting my grinds dead even to have a flat below the spine to do this with. They usually ended up full flat grinds, so this is my first high flat! Finally got one I was happy with! This is a 3/32" thick magnacut blade, cutting portion of the edge is just over 3", 3.5" tip to handle.

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Handle material and guard is a G10 (black, brown, black and tan IIRC)/Copper Laminate from Current Composite. They usually do these laminates where it has a maze pattern on the outer facing side of the block, but this time, they flipped it so the maze patterning is on the side/ends of the scales. One side is awesome, but the other side was more regular just with how the material was folded and pressed.

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It is a bit heavier than G10 weight wise, but the copper didn't give any issues heating up or anything, but I worked it slow. It had a black g10 frame.

I grabbed this pic from Currents FB page. You can see a larger chunk of this material at the bottom of the pic and see the folded/ripple pattern on the side of the piece. The blueish piece and red/white/blue pieces standing up is how they normally do it and I really want to get more! They also do it with aluminum as well.
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A quick video of it:

I buffed the handle as well and it still has nice grip to it, but youtube downgrades the video quality a bit.

I started this 1/4" thick 80CRV2 blade a while back, so I decided to finish it off! Around 6.75" cutting edge, vintage natural canvas micarta handle, hollow stainless pins and stainless lanyard tube. I did a flat grind and then convexed it, but kept some of the flat below the spine. The convex softened the bevel line, which I was OK with. Still need to sharpen and decide if I am going to straighten the clip out a bit or not and do a sheath for it.

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Not from the shop today, but I came across this knife today and thought I would share it. This is the earliest knife I have that I made. It got lost and rusty, but still kinda looks like a knife. It’s forged out of an old file, and the handle is ebony, with brass pins. My “forge” at the time was a hole dug in the ground with a hose from a shop vac buried in it to provide air to the bbq charcoal briquettes I used for fuel, and my anvil was a 1/2” plate of steel laying on the ground. I made this one I believe in 1991. I would have been 11 at the time. Kind of neat seeing it 30 some years later.

Edit: the weird choil thing is there because when I hardened it, it cracked, and I ground it out.
 
Edwardshandmadeknives said:
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Not from the shop today, but I came across this knife today and thought I would share it. This is the earliest knife I have that I made. It got lost and rusty, but still kinda looks like a knife. It’s forged out of an old file, and the handle is ebony, with brass pins. My “forge” at the time was a hole dug in the ground with a hose from a shop vac buried in it to provide air to the bbq charcoal briquettes I used for fuel, and my anvil was a 1/2” plate of steel laying on the ground. I made this one I believe in 1991. I would have been 11 at the time. Kind of neat seeing it 30 some years later.

Edit: the weird choil thing is there because when I hardened it, it cracked, and I ground it out.
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That's crazy, 11? Looks good! Your recent work is great too.
 
I was early at around 17/18 years old when I started in 1998! I think I have that first one at my parents house somewhere. I did a few kits before that, but a machinist friend gave me a piece of O-1, 1/4" thick and around 2" wide. I used a Drill press, hacksaw and files to profile it, and files to file in the bevels. We heat treated it with an oxy acetlyene torch and from what I remember, I put a black linen micarta handle on it. I picked up a Dremel to work on the handles after that and I was hooked! Been doing it off and on since 1998!
 
Taz575 said:
I was early at around 17/18 years old when I started in 1998! I think I have that first one at my parents house somewhere. I did a few kits before that, but a machinist friend gave me a piece of O-1, 1/4" thick and around 2" wide. I used a Drill press, hacksaw and files to profile it, and files to file in the bevels. We heat treated it with an oxy acetlyene torch and from what I remember, I put a black linen micarta handle on it. I picked up a Dremel to work on the handles after that and I was hooked! Been doing it off and on since 1998!
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More addictive than crack, it is. Probably more expensive too, lol
 
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