This knife is slightly larger than the previous two, blade measuring at 12 cm. The guard is made of bronze, to which I applied regular cold blue. The bronze turns to dark brown, then almost blue, then bluish grey. So far the guard has withstood the handling, however the decorative Read more…
I have actually finished the handle on this blade couple of weeks ago. I proudly showed it to a friend, who promptly said “well there is a crack in the handle here, look”. Oh well, it was just a stabilized block of elm, no big deal, 30 Euro or something. Read more…
This is my first knife from Elmax – a powder metallurgy miracle steel. Look at its properties and the datasheet here: https://www.uddeholm.com/en/products/uddeholm-elmax-super-clean/. I find the steel to be nice to work with, no noticable difference in grinding in annealed state (although the sheet that I got did have some hard Read more…
Today I finished a small batch of carbide-faced file guides and I thought it would be funny to look at my past attempts to make a file guide. In case you are not aware of this useful tool, you can check out this video: https://youtu.be/gh_Y74uQSwI?t=316 The first one I made Read more…
Some time ago I scored a nice big piece of bronze for a decent price. I love how it looks like fresh off the machine and I can’t wait for the patina to show up. I will use this stuff a lot I think. Edit: it’s brass! goddammit I misread Read more…
A friend of mine “complimented” my last knife by saying “you know, I liked the simpler knives that you made”. I do not know how much simpler my knives can get, but I guess this could be it. A very simple fulltang construction, full flat grind (albeit with a swedge), Read more…
For a while I wanted to make myself a nice machinist hammer. I did not exactly follow any blueprints, I only made a rough sketch and then kind of winged it. It turned out ok, although making it out of stainless steel might have been better. Or polishing it for Read more…
This blade is from N690, handle is stabilized birch burl, brass spacer and a cold blued steel guard. The cold bluing is already rubbing off on the edges, creating sort of worn look, so durability of the finish is not great. But it looks nice (for now).
This is a variation on Aaron Gough’s sanding block (at least that is where I saw this first). The idea behind it is that you have a block with three flat sides that you can use as backing for your sandpaper, and the fourth side of the block serves to Read more…
This one is from a remainder of D2 / Bohler K110 that I left to marinate in the shop for a couple of years before finally using it. Handle is micarta with brass liners, blade is polished to P1200 – a little higher than my usual P600 or 800. Sheath Read more…
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