A new knife or two

[Birddog6]

I decided I needed a new knife so I made this for me last week. It has a false tang & secured with Devcon 2000 and a brass retaining pin. The guard is made of 1/8" brass bar, cut & filed to shape & the end cap from 1/8" brass plate. The blade is 6 1/4" long by 1 1/4 x 1/4". The 4 1/4" handle is a piece of elk antler. On the larger heavier bladed knives such as this & larger I like to use rivets rather than stitch the sheath, as with a heavy bladed knife it is real easy for someone to cut a stitch putting it back in the sheath. Note the strap has the snap on the back side away from the brush when walking forward, as not to hang up on vines & etc & get unsnapped. Also, tho I am right handed, I carry it on my left side as not to bump or scrape the butt of my rifle on the handle.

The knife below is knife is one I made for my cousin a couple of weeks ago. It has a full tang & the Elk slab handle is secured with 3 brass pins. The blade on this one is 8 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 1/4". The plate on the end is secured with a 8x32 brass screw drilled & tapped into the end of the rull tang, plus Devcon2000 epoxy, then the screw head filed down til the slot is gone. This made a nice neat substantial end for the handle & also covered the porus end of the Elk antler slabs. The sheath is made like the sheath on the shorter knife at top.

This knife is larger than I like for personal use as I don't like that belt weight & I find the long blade harder more cumbersome than useful. But he is more of a collector than a skinner so it should be OK. :hmm: (i hope)

 

[laffingman67]

WOW, knife **** this early in the morning! :applause: Great knives Birddog! :bow:

 

[RickD]

Very nice knives..Do you forge your own damascus

 

[Birddog6]

Very nice knives..Do you forge your own damascus

No, definately not. I tried that one time & turned into a frenchfry in about 10 minutes. I am fair skinned & redheaded (well, before I turned gray) and I will fry in 10 min in the heat from a forge. I know a guy with a big hammermill & he makes it for me.

I like working with Damascus, as it is always different & I really come out with some neat looking patterns. They are harder to sell cause it cost allot more to make a knife with it, thus the price is higher. But I don't worry about selling them, I make them cause I just like to make them. And when I am tired of looking at them, I sell them or give them to a friend that I think will like them. :thumbsup: That way allot of people get to enjoy them rather than just me.

Here is something neat I made for X-mas gifts last year. I made 12 of these letter openers & gave them away & the people just loved them. It hit me one day that not everyone needed a skinning knife, so this way others could still enjoy the Damascus & some pretty wood. Of course each one was different, using Birdseye Maple, Koa, Kauri, Walnut Burl, Thuya Burl, Box Elder Burl, Redwood Burl, Claro Walnut Burl, Rosewood, etc. They all came out pretty neat and all had coffin handles with G.Silver guard & SS pins in them. The sheathes are hand stitched & made from 8 oz cowhide.

 

[davy]

Man .. nice work brother! :thumbsup:

Davy

 

[rabjr]

Wow nice knives Birddog. :bow:

 

[Nifeman]

Nice knives and letter openers...Bud

 

[wildeagle]

Birddog are you married ? :blah: do want to get married :blah: , if you're not can you adopt me???? :blah: Man you hit below the belt with all that pattern forged steel that you use, it makes me weak in the knees. All kidding aside thats some really impressive work you're cranking out :bow: :bow: keep it up and show some more pics, please , pretty please :wink:

 

[tom hargrove]

i think you are after birddog`s super-hawk although i admit the knives are fantastic too. :bow: :bow:

 

[PitchyPine]

Sharp. :thumbsup:

 

[jeepwj992002]

:shocked2: :shocked2: :shocked2: :shocked2: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: Simply amazing!!

 

[Kentuckywindage]

Oh man i love those knives. The top is my favorite due to the thicker handle. But man, i wouldnt turn any of those down! Beautiful!

 

[windwalker_au]

wow i love the smaller knife looks like it would fit the hand real nice you do good work mate,
bernie :bow:

 

[Titus]

cool blades. :grin:

 

[Birddog6]

I will post these & then quit.

Here is one of my favorites, a small Damascus patch knife but I really like this one. I made this for a friend up in WI as he has a rifle made of Rosewood & wanted me to make a patchknife out of some of the wood. This is what I came up with & he was real pleased with it. This has a full tang flat bevel ground Damascus blade & has G.Silver pins & G.Silver wire inlay into the purple Rosewood handle.

And this is another favorite knife that turned out with absolutely facinating color from the heat treatment. I have tried to replicate this many times & have yet to accomplish one as pretty. I get some nice ones, but this one had really brilliant colors. This is full tang ATS-34 steel blade with figured desert Ironwood & SS pins, & a lined hold for a leather thong if desired. This is a flat bevel grind on the blade & the colors were a reaction to the heating of the metal & how it reacted with a light coat of oil on it & the metal tapering off thinner.

 

[laffingman67]

QUIT IT BD! too much knife ****! :surrender:

Those are AWESOME! :bow:

That patch knife is beautiful. I love the wire work. :hatsoff:

 

[Dave K]

Don't you love that Damascus? But, that color case hardening has it's own beauty as well. They are very nice knives and are better in the hands then in the pictures. :wink: