Sawmill blade steel. Home cast bolsters from bullet shells. Stained oak. Beryllium copper pins on the oak, with a single brass pin through the bolster.
My latest WIP knife, a fighting type bowie. The choils lock your fingers in very nicely. Photinia wood, blue and brass liners with beryllium copper pins will be used.
The second image shows my LATEST COMPETED knife, bradford pear handled, blue linered, 5mm copper beryllium pin with a 1/4"...
I used an online design tool to modify these bad boys from a template. The site also has a waterjet cutting service.
The EDC and the thrower are 3.2mm. The tanto is 5mm width. All are 80CRV2.
The shop I use is over at my father in law's place just down the road. Needless to say between work and everything else being bonkers I have not done much in the way of making man glitter recently. Just started again in the last couple weekends, but I am also trying to finish my novel(s)...
I purchased a new knife and thought it needed a little bling so I took it apart and used the existing scales and spacer as templates and now it's a one of a kind Benchmade knife!. Oh and FYI over time it turned very dark and lost it's bling factor.
Been working on some turkey calls this week, getting orders in like crazy, so I took a break, this is a knife with sheath and three strikers I made for a friend, who sent me a dozen saw blades in a swap. He wasn't expecting the knife & sheath, but it is a surprise as it is the first out of his...
These are my latest creation. A customer sent me his knife and wanted some new grips made. He left the choice up to me, and so I chose the DIW. I have one coat of truoil on em, and as it was drying, I rubbed into the grain voids, then left it to dry for a day. Then I buffed em out with white...
so I did a trade with an instagram follower where I sent him some Desert Ironwood thins for a heat treaded blade I could put some DIW scales on.
Here is the project after a coat of shellac. Brass pins. I figure I'll just put a few coats of wax and be done. I hate poly.
Thing is, the blade...