Thread: Show me your knives

A free tux knife beat that!!

Originally Posted by BRADS

A free tux knife beat that!!
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It was free for a reason mate

Originally Posted by kiwijames

It was free for a reason mate

Don't hate on the free knife bro it cuts ballage wrap just fine

Mate of mine started making knives about a year ago, I've got some of his early ones and he has recently started listing them on Trademe: Trade Me - Listings from hennyjvv

This is my favorite, its even been to Africa once:

Last night
Bark River, Mini Rouge

Originally Posted by BRADS

A free tux knife beat that!!
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It has to be good for bailing twine cutting at least

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

Gerber

Rate them as well. Presume yours is the 154CM blade? but it is not produced in the fixed knife. Pity because the folder gets wickedly sharp on our sharpener.

I always wanted some Damascus blades there pretty cool quite well made iv only used 1 to butcher a sheep so haven't really given them a decent test yet.
Handles are made of camel bone , rose wood ,bufflow horn , antler and something else...

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

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I always wanted some Damascus blades they are pretty cool quite well made iv only used 1 to butcher a sheep so haven't really given them a decent test yet.
Handles are made of camel bone , rose wood ,bufflow horn , antler and something else...

I used to import a lot of knives from India and 99% of the them are average at best, they may look nice but trying to get them to hold or take an edge is fruitless.looks to me like a few of them are exactly that, if you want a good Damascus blade you need to spend a few hundred min and often over a grand, it's a pointless steel nowadays, Damascus steel was in the old days the best steel for cutting flesh because of the microscopic bubbles in the steel that acted as a natural micro serration, this created unsurpassed flesh cutting in those days, today there are steels that are far better and cheaper, it's "pattern welded" steel and for my money it's just nice to look at, as a tool for hard work, not really.
the true Damascus art form is lost, they used to make the ingots in the ground and used plant matter of some sort which is believed to have helped the micro bubbles ( so to speak ) you can find true Damascus steel in different places like huge pillars in India that were made from it...... But impossible to Aquire and pretty soft as well, there is a shit load of info on This steel if you look for it, and as a person who used to forge it was an obsession for a while
Nice collection Thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Last night
Bark River, Mini Rouge

whats the handle bruce?

Its stained Maple Burl

nice knife looks like a mini Natchez bowie

Here is my new beast, think i got a problem (But not as bad as Tahr)

Ripi John Worthington. Skinner is N690 SS with steel is 5160 carbo steel, Ebony Handle. Managed to find a dude to make a decent leather sheath

Hamish

At least I get blood on mine

Thats a good-un, and N690 is nice. I've got an ENZO in 690 and given it a good work out and it has performed very well.

By the way, shit sheath

Here's hoping this weekend I can get some blood on it;-)