http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com Custom Handmade Knives Fri, 12 May 2006 23:01:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/stag-fight-2006-04-24.html 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 ... http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/long-tall-sally-2006-04-14.html 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. http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/29-2006-04-14.html 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 ... http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/city-sticker-2006-04-14.html                      This is another skinner I made with the integral finger choil,as some would call it. It's made from 1084 carbon steel and differentially 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 http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/stag-skinner-2006-04-13.html I made this for my dad for his birthday. Its 9" overall with a 4 5/8" flatground blade forged from 1084 steel and differentially heat treated. The handle is Sambar stag and afzelia burl wood with nickel guard and buttplate. The knife came with a nice handtooled leather sheath. I hope ... http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/hershberger-handmade-knife-photo-4-2005-10-30.html This knife is forged from 1084 steel and a little of the rough forging left in for a pretty but rustic affect. The blade is 3 5/8" with an OAL of 8" and differentially heat treated. The intregal fingerguard forged in I learned from Joe Keeslar, ABS Chairman and one ... http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/hershberger-handmade-knife-photo-3-2005-10-30.html Forged from 1084 steel and flat gound, this design makes a nice camp or field utility knife. The blade is 6" with an OAL of 10 1/2" and differentially heat treated. The fitting, or non-guard as I would call it, is nickel silver. The handle is sheeoak and has a ... http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/hershberger-handmade-knife-photo-2-2005-10-30.html LOOTWUK stands for Little Out Of The Way Utility Knife. This small utility I really like because it's very compact and carries nicely.....but always there when you need it. Forged from 1084 steel, it is 6 1/2" overall with a 2 7/8" flatground blade. This handle is made from Australian ... http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/hershberger-handmade-knife-photo-2005-10-30.html My new site, cool huh....still under construction. Well, here's my knife story about how I got started making knives.... the readers digest version. Having been interested in and used and collected knives for many years I went to a custom knife show with a thousand bucks in my pocket intent ... http://www.hershbergerhandmade.com/hello-world-2005-10-22.html