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yeah it looks really nice to me!! ;)

wow:o!! That turned out fantastic! congrats! :)

great size and beautiful stag grips! :D

Very nice bowie! is that maple for the handle? I have maple that came from a school gym floor that I use as handles with good results. Nice job!

very nicely done! love the overall design and shape.

very nice! i love the handle design

very nice job on both of them! :)

very nice! it looks like the workmanship you would have seen 100 years ago when you had real craftsman when things were still made right, very nice.

very nice work.

very nice! love the blade design

Hello everyone, this is a leather sheath I just made for a leather handled bowie I made this past winter. The leather is tooling leather, roughly 1/8" thick. The arkansas sharpening stone is 4" long x 1-1/8" wide x 3/8" thick. I have to get leg ties for it yet.

Very nice! The design reminds me of my woodsmanspal knives.

very nice.

Ken, u could be right, didn't think of that

Fe-Wood, lol I carry mine in my fishing bag ;)

hello everyone,
I bought this knife about 3 years ago at a flea market. For a few years, i collected bayonets so this one caught my eye since it resembles one, it also resembles a hitler youth knife almost exactly except the handle material is different and the blade has a fuller on either side. It has no markings whatsoever, the handle material seems to be fabric in nature but hardened, you can see grains running thru it. The tang is only a narrow strip just wide enough to put the handle pins thru. The guard and tang that the handle is attached to are one piece with a bottom tang piece which appears to be wood, it almost looks like a repair but it looks like it was made that way, very odd. the oal is 10-3/4" and the blade is 6" long x 3/16" thick. Any questions, thoughts or answers are greatly welcome! I just want to know what it is! :)

Mike, here's my german k55 cat knife, (sorry for the lowlight pics)

Keykeeper, thanks for the kind words I love working with leather!

Very nice! I like the design of the blade and handle, a short bladed knife like that has alot of uses out in the field.

Mike, those are really nice! I like how all the parts are made of metal and how simple they are, kindof reminds me of the german K55 cat knife with its metal handle.

thanks for the kind words Chad, ur right about the sharpening stone, always better than nothing.

hello everyone
This is a knife I made 6 years ago for my friends dad who was a U.D.T. veteran also known as a "frogman" during vietnam. He had the shorter knife made while he was stationed for a few weeks in the philippines by a native. He used his knife througout the war and after the war whenever he went camping, so he wanted me to make one similar to it because he loved the design, but with a longer blade and a sharpening stone added to the sheath. I forged the knife from a leaf spring. The blade length is 10", overall length is 15-1/2" long. I made the sheath from tooling leather with an arkansas sharpening stone that is 4"Lx1-1/2"Wx3/8"T, I never liked the smaller sharpening stones especially with a knife with a long blade.

Looks very nice! :D

Very nice! :)

chadj, I can't wait to see that! thats a great idea