My knife builds

[rifletuner]

Nice work!

Thanks mate

 

[rifletuner]

This is one I finished up a month or so back for a customer that needed to replace a knife that went AWOL. The knife was made to order and they chose the pattern out of some options I showed them, and also chose the handle colours. It was a very straight forward build as the brief gave me a fair bit of latitude.

The blade profile is a Nessmuk style skinner with a thumb ramp. The steel is 3mm Nitro V with a full flat grind. The edge is right on 0.2mm and cuts very well. The handle is a tapered tang with orange G10 material, black G10 liners. brass Loveless bolts & brass lanyard tube. Leather work is by a friend.

 

[rifletuner]

This is a knife I just finished for a customer that bought one of my knives at the Sydney knife show last year. He had the knife in his car and it was stolen in a brake-in. He wanted me to remake the knife like the original, but we changed a few things to suit him since it was being specifically made for him this time round. The original knife was one of my bushcrafter profiles, but he used it mainly for game processing and camp chores, so I modified it a little to suit that role a bit better.

The steel is 3mm Nitro V with cryo treatment. The bevel is a high saber grind, and the edge is ground to 0.2mm to make it quite slicey. I would normally grind the profile to more of a spear point, but this has a bit more drop at point to help with game processing. The handle is a tapered tang with Micarta handles, black G10 liners, brass Loveless bolts and brass lanyard tubes. The liners are difficult to see in the pictures, but that was what the customer requested.