Knifemaking

This one is from N690 (as requested by the guy who “ordered” this), about 10 cm blade (4 mm thick) with 11.5 cm handle. G10 as scales. Experimental sheath with a belt loop and retention strap.

This is a gift to my father for his birthday. Elmax 3.6 mm thick, approx 95 mm long blade. Faux ivory on the handle, with bronze and walnut burl. New maker’s mark! Yay.

I’m still processing the same batch of similar blades I sent for HT some time ago. So this knife is again 3.6 mm thick Elmax, approx 110 mm long blade and 235 mm overall. Guard is stainless steel.

This one is from a new batch of Elmax blades, it has rounded spine and some jimping added to it. It turned out great and I think I will keep adding it to more blades going forward. Handle is indian blackwood, bolster is stainless steel. Blade length about 90 mm, Read more

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

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