Thread: Show me your knives

Originally Posted by 223nut

Saw that stumpy Skinner on your website..... I had to stop drooling

Thanks for your positive comment and for looking at the site. The stumpy skinner on the website is actually different from the one above - the website one has a 4 finger groove handle, full tang construction, thicker brass guard with angled front face. May as well put up an image of that too and then I'll stop posting knife pr0n for a while haha. Cheers, D.

Hi all you knife guys

Im looking for a metal working kiln and just though I would drop this in here as some of you guys might know where one is lurking ??
Not wanted for knife making
Need an internal around 300mm square or larger.

PM me and I will consider anything that is reasonably functional.

After grinding up my first ever knife as a Christmas present for my older brother, he passed comment that he really needed a nice little knife for field dressing rabbits.
I did a search for suitably small blades on the net and discovered that Bark River are releasing one called the Rascal next week. Looks like a sweet little blade shape, but in my opinion, a tad small. So I upscaled it a bit giving an overall length of 160mm, and rounded out a few of the corners.

The end result, 1084 steel heat treated in my LPG bottle forge and precision bench top fan oven, double tempered for two hours to 205 degrees calculus (oven switching in at 190 and out at 205), targeting a 'book value' hardness of 60RC
Flat bevel grind to 120 grit, surface left 'as heat treated' and then pickled in some 'Grunt' cleaning acid to see what happened (no much). Camel bone handle scales with brass pins (camel bone polishes very nicely on the buffer - just saying).
Hand sharpened on water stone to a razor edge. Definitely felt like the blade was around the 60RC on the stone.
All of the above was entirely experimental for shits and giggles.

Came out not too bad. Just need to shoot a rabbit now to test it out.


Scales in the process of being shaped


Finished item ready for sharpening

Here is my Buck master 184, this is THE knife for skinning small animals. Weight a ton, about 600g and the navy seals used them occasionally for anchors... anyway, I feel invincible when it's in my hand, watch out baddies cause Rambo is on the loose!

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

After grinding up my first ever knife as a Christmas present for my older brother, he passed comment that he really needed a nice little knife for field dressing rabbits.
I did a search for suitably small blades on the net and discovered that Bark River are releasing one called the Rascal next week. Looks like a sweet little blade shape, but in my opinion, a tad small. So I upscaled it a bit giving an overall length of 160mm, and rounded out a few of the corners.

The end result, 1084 steel heat treated in my LPG bottle forge and precision bench top fan oven, double tempered for two hours to 205 degrees calculus (oven switching in at 190 and out at 205), targeting a 'book value' hardness of 60RC
Flat bevel grind to 120 grit, surface left 'as heat treated' and then pickled in some 'Grunt' cleaning acid to see what happened (no much). Camel bone handle scales with brass pins (camel bone polishes very nicely on the buffer - just saying).
Hand sharpened on water stone to a razor edge. Definitely felt like the blade was around the 60RC on the stone.
All of the above was entirely experimental for shits and giggles.

Came out not too bad. Just need to shoot a rabbit now to test it out.

Attachment 103739
Scales in the process of being shaped

Attachment 103740
Finished item ready for sharpening

If you feel like making another, let me know. I like it.

Originally Posted by 40mm

Here is my Buck master 184, this is THE knife for skinning small animals. Weight a ton, about 600g and the navy seals used them occasionally for anchors... anyway, I feel invincible when it's in my hand, watch out baddies cause Rambo is on the loose!Attachment 103746

You can tell just by looking at it that that knife should be black.

Originally Posted by Rushy

You can tell just by looking at it that that knife should be black.

Im trying to mount it as a bayonet on my sharps for next time I have to dispatch a pack of giant wolves.

@rushy the e cat version

Originally Posted by 40mm

Attachment 103757@rushy the e cat version

What are the backwards facing spikey bits for?

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

After grinding up my first ever knife as a Christmas present for my older brother, he passed comment that he really needed a nice little knife for field dressing rabbits.
I did a search for suitably small blades on the net and discovered that Bark River are releasing one called the Rascal next week. Looks like a sweet little blade shape, but in my opinion, a tad small. So I upscaled it a bit giving an overall length of 160mm, and rounded out a few of the corners.

The end result, 1084 steel heat treated in my LPG bottle forge and precision bench top fan oven, double tempered for two hours to 205 degrees calculus (oven switching in at 190 and out at 205), targeting a 'book value' hardness of 60RC
Flat bevel grind to 120 grit, surface left 'as heat treated' and then pickled in some 'Grunt' cleaning acid to see what happened (no much). Camel bone handle scales with brass pins (camel bone polishes very nicely on the buffer - just saying).
Hand sharpened on water stone to a razor edge. Definitely felt like the blade was around the 60RC on the stone.
All of the above was entirely experimental for shits and giggles.

Came out not too bad. Just need to shoot a rabbit now to test it out.

Attachment 103739
Scales in the process of being shaped

Attachment 103740
Finished item ready for sharpening

Beaut looking bird and trout man. 1084 makes a surprisingly good knife aye

Originally Posted by Nick-D

What are the backwards facing spikey bits for?

to hold your Corn cobs

So I found this bloke selling his knives at a night market here in Punta Del Este (Uruguay)
You can check out his website by searching Willy Knives Uruguay.
This is a "Trapper B" made with N560 steel polished finish and the handle is Madera Itín which is a south american hardwood. Absolutely beautiful knives
The makers mark ( Willy R.O.U ) stands for Republica Oriental de Uruguay, which is the full and proper name for the country. He has a few others hes selling at the moment and I would buy them all if I didnt need a mortgage to fund it!

This is another of his. The model is "Practicó " also in N560 with Chital/Axis Deer antler for the scales. He also has one of these with a hardwood scales which is also very nice.





USD$300 if anyone is feeling spendy and wants something unique

Originally Posted by Beaker

If you feel like making another, let me know. I like it.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. My younger brother is making a sheath for it at the moment so once I get it back I will have to try it out on a rabbit. Turns out the handle material is buffalo horn, not camel bone.