This is knife one. It has a full flat grind on it. Its style is a drop point skinner.
That�s what I call it. It is cut from a piece of 18 inch stock. I cut it to 8 � inches
overall length. Its 3/16 inch thick. Made from A2 tool steel. I�ve enjoyed using this
steel. Its worked out good so far under the conditions I use and the type of blades I
have made. I�ve been able to get two knives out of an 18 inch bar. These are knives one
and two that I�ve made. I�m making knives for each of my children. This is knives one
and two with number one on top. I�ve drilled some holes in the handles to lighten and balance.
Here�s knife number one. It�s ready for heat treat. It�s been sanded and all the
major scratches taken out. Here it is after heat treatment. It�s kinda got a scale on
it after it�s heated. Here it is resanded and it in the Lansky sharpening system. I�m
putting a cutting edge on it prior to putting a handle on it. I like the Lansky it�s done
well. I�ve sharpened about 50 knives so far. Once I got it I sharpened everything
in the house. Here is the handle going on to the knife. It�s a black linen micarta
with an Osage Orange wood scales that I cut from a piece of firewood at my farm. It�s
kinda got a rustic look on it. I went with mosaic pins. Just kinda interesting. This
is for my oldest child. I�ve used some .060 inch thick Kydex to make a sheath. It�s
pretty inexpensive. There�s a quick release belt clip that I have attached to the sheath.
Profiled the sheath then just trimmed around it with a band saw and touched it up with
a little sander. Here they are completed. Knife and the sheath. Came out pretty good.
The sheath holds it in really tight. I really like the Kydex. It wears pretty well on the
belt. It�s a little high for what I would use. So there is a lesson learned there as
far as how it carries on the belt. But not bad for the first knife I ever made. Knife
number two is going to have a gut hook on it. Will be the same type of style. Here�s
knife blade number two on the bevel filing jig. I went ahead and selected the smallest
of the gut hook designs and transferred it onto the blade. Here�s the gut hook finished.
Took about 30 minutes to do. Did it with a drill, and a cutoff wheel, and a 7/32 inch
chainsaw chain round file. Came out pretty nice I think. Here�s knife number two ready
for heat treatment. It�s looking pretty good. I went ahead and started knife number
three. Which is going to be a tanto fighter. It�s 14 inches longe by 5/32 inch thick
and 1 � inch wide. I got way too many scratches on it so that took a lot of effort to get
those out. I learned to pay better attention. This is knife two and three after heat treatment.
And here we got the three amigos. Knives one, two, and three together for the first time.
Knife three is getting ready to put a handle on it. I was going to do wooden scales but
then thought about a para cord wrap so I did a quick wrap with it to see how it would look.
Just really loosely wrapped it around to see if it would even be interesting. I really
liked the way it looked. So I went ahead and did a fancier wrap on it with some designs
in it. On the handle I did some grooves to hold the para cord in place so it won�t
slip around. You can see some of the grooves where the para cord is nested in there tight
to keep it from slipping. Got a little jimping on the top there. Just a tiny bit. I like
choils. I put a choil on very knife I have made so far. I�ve made 5 of them. This isn�t
a real heavy knife. It�s solid. It�s pretty quick in your hands. All I can say about this
is ouch. That�s a nasty point. Here we got knife number four. Another drop point skinner
with a gut hook. I�m not a fan of the gut hook myself. I
ferric chloride acid etched a deer head onto the blade. Here�s knife
number 5. I used the piece that I cut off from the tanto knife and just made a little
three fingered skinner. I really like this knife. It�s been my favorite on
so far. Beautiful little thing. There it is in its sheath.