This knife won the Best Amateur Knife category at the ‘06 Southern California Blade Expo show. I was a happy camper! But it wasn’t about the award so much as it was about the direction I’m heading as an apprentice bladesmith. An award is just a mark in the road, it tells me I’m on the right path. There’s so much to learn and perfect to make a “better” knife, and thats exciting!

A 52100 blade with a false edge on the clip. The stainless oval guard marks the beginning of a Sambar stag handle sandwiched between two chunks of eucalyptus burl wood seperated by nickel silver and red fiber spacers.

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I was reading thru the pictorial of Bill Moran “Master of The Forge” one evening and guess I was influenced a little when I went to the forge the following day. Not the handle obviously, but I loved the contours of his many different “ST” styles with that long clip flowing back to the ricasso. The blade is 5160 forged and differentially heat treated and hand rubbed to a 600 grit fine satin finish. The oval guard is nickel silver as¬¨‚Ćare the spacers in between the afzelia burl wood and water buffalo horn handle. The rope is 1′ hemp and yes the knife sailed through it in one swipe in good ol’ ABS fashion!

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I love stag-handled knives! This one has a buttcap of water buffalo horn and stainless steel. The blade is made of 52100 steel and sits in front of a stainless guard. It fits nice and snug in the tooled pouch sheath I made for it.

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I really like how this knife turned out. It actually came together better than I had pictured in my mind when I drew it out on paper. Again, I used 1084 steel for the blade and it’s hand rubbed to 800 grit with a nice false edge. The guard is stainless steel. The handle is amboyna burl with a black fiber spacer between it and the guard. I should have put a picture of the sheath I made in as well. I made it in a bootknife fashion. It has 3 rare earth magnets sandwiched in the layers of leather with a nice tight fit as the retaining system, and works really well! The sheath has a stainless belt clip riveted and stitched in place and¬¨‚Ćhas an inlay of¬¨‚Ćdark brown stingray hide on the front. All in all it’s a gorgeous but very functional package.

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This is another skinner I made with the integral finger choil,as some would call it. It’s made from 1084 carbon steel and¬¨‚Ćdifferentially hardened. It’s been tempered to 58-59 Rockwell C. It has Sambar stag handles with red fiber spacers and a vine pattern fileworked spine along the blade

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