This was recently finished by a friend of mine. He has a fantastic eye for knives and never ceases to amaze me. I sent him a blade I forged and this is what he came up with.

He has taken an average looking blade and turned it into a simply stunning knife.

1055 forged, triple normalised, clay coated and quenched in cold water. Tempered twice at 185C







Those are his hands, not mine :D

Very interesting. Is there a background and history to this style of knife that you would like to share.

that is just too cool! whats the wood?

Amazing knife, very interesting looking, cool tattoo as well

Mic (the maker) is a regular poster on british blades forum. He has a knack of just knowing what handle a blade needs. He is making 'rustic' knives at the moment, using very natural materials, (bamboo, jute etc)

His 'scandi' knives (which he is best known for) are works of art (highly finished). Very talented maker!

Mic (the maker) is a regular poster on british blades forum. He has a knack of just knowing what handle a blade needs. He is making 'rustic' knives at the moment, using very natural materials, (bamboo, jute etc)

His 'scandi' knives (which he is best known for) are works of art (highly finished). Very talented maker!

He's a genius. It is always wonderful to see one of my blades given the Pennillion treatment.

Mik often has blades from me aswell. He does very tribal work with a rustic blade (I mostly do forged to finished blades), something that I couldn't bring myself to do * but he makes them work I don't think I've seen any of his knives that i don't like.

He also pimps old folding knives now. So a boring little penknife will end up with some filework and mammoth ivory scales for example

I like selling blades to others to handle. It's always interesteing and fun to see what turns out at the end!



* by this I mean that I avoid making my knives look 'tribal', 'neo-tribal' or anything else that is stylistcally of another part of the world (a lot of peope recreate native american stuff for example), or psuedo-old-worldy. I make my knives as I see them and if I recreate something from the past then it is normally set in European Archaeology.

Edited October 9, 200916 yr by Dave Budd

Sweet!!!! Very Nice

Very nice. Gives me some new ideas for handle material.

Could ya talk him into giving us a little discourse on how to keep the bark from slipping when making a knife handle from it? I actually like the look of that handle, and I'm not normally into the tribal style that much.

Could ya talk him into giving us a little discourse on how to keep the bark from slipping when making a knife handle from it? I actually like the look of that handle, and I'm not normally into the tribal style that much.

Cut limb from the tree in the winter time when the sap is out.

That's it? All there is to it? Great!