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Incredible work. The sheathe is excellent!

Thats great! and it costed almost next to nothing for materials.

nice shape on the blade. It looks good.

no problem, it was fun to make.

beautiful work!

the knife was completed a couple of weeks ago. it was a blade i wanted to wear for myself. i thought of different designs for a sheathe, and came up with this one. the body is made of elk horn sandwiched in between are leather and brazilian cherry. leather straps hold the sheathe in place with the belt loop as one piece. turquoise inlay and a turned brass stud also were attached to the body.

unfortunately we dont have any stores like that here. i usually get a lot of my information online or through magazines.

excellent. it looks mean.

I know i havent been doing this a long time. however, I think if you landed your hammer blows flatter on the steel rather than on the edge of the hammer, it would have a cleaner finish. Use a 4" angle grinder with a 36 grit flapper disc to rough out the shape then finish with an 80 grit flapper disc instead of the bench grinder. I hope this helps you.

I dont know if this goes here, but here it is. Its a birthday present for my wife. A letter opener forged from a stainless steel bolt. A magnet was somewhat attracted to the bolt. i wasnt too worried about HT the blade tip, since it was just for openening letters. white tail deer tipped on the end. and my first attempt at leather working.

I'm going to start collecting some nice high carbon steel. With this, lll begin on smithing some nice blades. I really enjoy smithing I like creating something beautiful from a raw piece of steel. I would love to attend meetings and travel and meet other smiths. At the moment I have a full time job plus side jobs to pay for a mortgage, insurance and other bill. I do a lot of my projects after work or before. Hopefully in three years when my home is paid for, I'll be able to do more. I would love to make more pieces to sell in the future.

Santa fe would be great. Its only an 1.5 hour drive. let me know when there's another meeting.

nice, did you make the sheathe too?

Thank you, i want to do some more practicing before i screw up some good steel. LOL Im located in northern nm. (Taos). i would love to attend the meets, it would be a long drive though.

Railroad spike with leather. Experimenting with etching too.

I thought about that one a bit. However, the piece im making out of it is a small letter opener. Plus the cutting edge is only about an inch long.

Nice! great design.

looks good. im currently making a small one too. its made from a stainless 1/2" bolt.

theyre all great. i think i like the deer antler knife best.

Jeez! thats incredible.

excellent job on the finish! nice save too.

wow! thats great work!

it looks great. nice start!

I finally finished it. I learned a lot about what i did wrong on the hamon. like...using too thin of a clay mixture, and not letting the clay dry completely. however, i think it still came out nice. i used elk horn for the handle. Thanks for looking :D .

incredible work! the sheathe looks great.