Thread: Show me your knives

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Yes. I'm liking mine. Maybe buy a few more and they can be spares or gifts.
Old guy EDC

Haha spot the anti-inflammatory meds.

Second knife I made, age 17, 1980 (made my first one when I was 15, but that one is lost). Made entirely with hand tools.

Scrounged a car leaf spring from the local tip, cut/broke it in half, heated one half of the spring red hot in the kitchen fire, and hammered it flat on the concrete back porch with dad's Estwing. Cut / shaped the annealed steel with files and hacksaw. Blade bevels were draw filed flat, then sanded. Heat treated at the local foundry for $5.

Hidden tang, epoxied in place, brass guard, handle is apricot from up the Waitotara valley. Overall length 249 mm, blade length 126 mm, blade thickness at spine 5.4 mm. HRC 48.

Got all rusty and pitted because my brother used it as a saltwater fishing knife - if he hadn't stashed it in his fishing box it most likely would have been thrown out while I was at uni. I reclaimed it from him in 1986.

Got this fella away over the weekend. Full tang drop point. Rwl 34, with tassie blackwood and g10 bolsters.

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Originally Posted by Nick-D

Got this fella away over the weekend. Full tang drop point. Rwl 34, with tassie blackwood and g10 bolsters.

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Mint mate,saves me having to post pictures when she turns up!thanks again much appreciated.

Originally Posted by The bomb

Mint mate,saves me having to post pictures when she turns up!thanks again much appreciated.

Post some pics when you get it dirty man.

Something out of the scraps and stuff ups pile. Smashed this together Inbetween orders. Original Knife was a nitro v lightweight edc tester I wasn't 100% happy with and the scales had a massive inclusion making to short for a normal knife handle.

Bit of a regrind and viola a new little b&t/small game hunter for myself.

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Sitting at home with Covid, day 5... she's a bit boring.
Lost count of the amount of hunting videos I have watched on YouTube.
Out of boredom here's a knife I made a couple of weeks back for a local Central Otago hunter.
Mamba model in 1084.
New Juma blue swirl handle material combined with Navy and white acrylic handle material.

Those mambas are a good shape!

It is “Voilà “,
viola means “he rapped” in French.

Originally Posted by Friwi

It is “Voilà “,
viola means “he rapped” in French.

A Viola is also an instrument lower in tone than a violin and sits between a violin and a cello.

Originally Posted by Joe_90

Those mambas are a good shape!

Thanks @Joe_90 , you have done a fair share of animals with one , cheers for the feedback.

A stainless Damascus Nakiri made for my wife's birthday, needless to say my brownie points are on max .

Hi all,
I recently found this kukri when going through my grandfather's stuff. I don't know anything about it; looks a bit "touristy" but it must be quite old (as he died before I was born).

No stamps or marks, but it's decently made and has a good edge. Seems forged and good steel.

Anyone seen or know anything about this sort of knife?

Any marking on the other side?

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Originally Posted by MCCPRO

Any marking on the other side?

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Nope, no markings anywhere. From some research it seems it is an old Indian Kukri, rather than a Nepalese one. The small versions are to be used as a pen knife ‘sort of’ (the sharp one) and the blunt one was for church. A warrior couldn’t be without his kukri but no weapons allowed in church, hence he would leave the two sharp ones outside and just cart the blunt one in. Honour satisfied… I think it's quite old.