Thread: Show me your knives

Originally Posted by diana2

Hunting/boning knife, scales made from black walnut thanks to @gonetropo
red micarta, brass pins,
blade henckel zwilling carbon steel.
Just waiting for some cow hide (for the sheath) to arrive which might take a while coming from europe..

Where do you buy your leather from?

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Lapco lapco.co.nz problem is they sell it in large pieces, so if you only want a small amount it’s not worth it, if you can find a friendly saddler you might be able to buy some, whatever you do only get veg tanned stuff as chrome tanned will fall apart.

Thanks, great advise!

Originally Posted by diana2

Hunting/boning knife, scales made from black walnut thanks to @gonetropo
red micarta, brass pins,
blade henckel zwilling carbon steel.
Just waiting for some cow hide (for the sheath) to arrive which might take a while coming from europe..

Where do you buy your leather from?

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WOW!!!
so glad you did that

nz leather supplies are the best

Another custom build , a few hours left but nearly finished. Aqua blue Jute micarta, g10 spacers and liners with dyed and stabilized wood.
More photo's to come of finished knife over the next few days.
Be safe out there.

The finished knife, 14c28n , false hamon, etched ricasso on a Mamba model.
Lots of experimentation and some I would use again and some maybe not.

my latest purchase ,$50 and seems pretty good so far,solid lockup ,keeps an edge ,small and light,almost too light need to check twice it’s in my pocket sometimes..

@viper, I like the knife photos, but your herb garden (used as the regular backdrop) is almost as impressive!

Originally Posted by Tahr

4" Cross knives Kephart. CPMD2

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Liking the Kephart theme here. Another 4" Cross Kephart in D2 courtesy of @Tahr

Originally Posted by Puffin

@viper, I like the knife photos, but your herb garden (used as the regular backdrop) is almost as impressive!

@Puffin , HaHa , my wife will be stoked to hear you say that, she's a nurse on the front line with this virus so that will make her day and will tell her once she gets back from her shift tonight.
It's also a good reminder for me to mix my back drops up more.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Liking the Kephart theme here. Another 4" Cross Kephart in D2 courtesy of @Tahr
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I think that might be A2 steel. Less chippy than D2.

SOG Terminus XR in S35VN. Was sharp out of the box then wicked sharp after using the ultra fine stones added to my sharpmaker. The XR is a much less slick axiom lock found on Benchmade folders.

*Axis lock.

Has anyone used chestnut shells for dying leather and if so how is it done?
Tried to find anything on google but no success.
Cheers

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