I need to make a few of them, eight more knives to go or twelve? crap have to go back and count again Really getting behind on the leatherwork, only saving grace the fillet knife is getting a Kydex sleeve
Hey John. One of the things I like about your work so much is that you don't seem (seem, maybe you actually do) to have a preference for the style of blade. Each one seems very unique. I know that all blades are but many times you get a feeling that the maker has a preferred style sometimes. You have a bunch of knives in that pic and each one has it's own look. If I stacked up mine (first, i wouldn't get to 7 or 8-yet but..) you'd definitely see a theme in the blades, a definite preference would show. I don't see that with yours. Very cool.
Closest I have come to a style is OOOH lets try something different Partly because I want to develop lots of different skills and partly because every time someone asks me to make a knife it is different than anything I have done so far. Like the latest one a Buck knife style with name carved in the handle, hopefully they get back to me with more info. Mind you I have been considering a template and one or two styles for Fillet knives so I can process a dozen during heat treating and handle making. Once I try out a new grind and get feed back from a couple testers I may have a style nailed down there but that will be the only ones
You got some leather work there . I hate leather work for me it's kydex all the way. Nice bunch of knives you have there.
I would love to get really good at making leather sheaths. A really top end leather sheath to me is almost as beautiful as the knife is. For now, I will focus on just making the knives. I go kydex for the expediency of it. Although I've seen some crazy complicated kydex sheaths too.
Leather is beautiful and I do agree some cases are nicer that the knife. I try to keep my price down and sale a good knife . If I had to get top end leather and make a fancy case my price would just have to go up to match it. Around here I sell to hard core hunters that like the kydex better .There ruff on there gear and there not into fancy leather thank god for that. I'm happy .
I wish the people I make for wanted Kydex, bought a bunch because I was asked about it and I wanted it for fillet knives. Every person I give a choice to looks at tooled leather and says no too Kydex, even considered trying to heat up a stamp and using it on the Kydex. Have a couple duplicates so nothing lost.
A couple done latest in black Based off a knife I carried in the military with a high and low position. And the first hidden tang knife, second from left in case it got lost during the server repair
very nice. I like that hi/low sheath a lot. The knives are also pretty great. I'm going to have to try a hidden tang knife at some point. I need buy a small set of files i guess. (sorry honey, the guys told me i "had" to"... : )
Also a saw blade used to cut wood or drywall from a sawsall can be used for cleaning out the tang hole
