This was a commission for a husband-and-wife pair of sharp-and-pointies.  5160 steel, triple normalized, triple hardened, triple tempered.  Canvas Micarta handles with flared stainless steel tubing rivets. 

 

 

And Kydex sheaths with TekLoks.

 

 

They shave on the tops and bottoms, which impressed the customer.  He said he hadn't gotten a knife with a sharpened top edge that was that sharp before.  :D  They ain't his first custom knives, either.

Really nice looking set! Is it possible to get a close up shot of them? I couldn't get a good look by just blowing up the pic.
Thanks!
Jake

People really like this design of yours hey.

I really need to be able to make them similar like you are.

Lucky me just sold my first knife though :D  

But yours look good and look like they are very similar, takes a bit of practice to do that.

very nice, i gotta learn how to do those tubular rivets

Thank y'all!

 

Jakesshop - Sorry, they've already been mailed to the customer.  These are the best shots.

 

Aden - I start with the same size piece of steel, forge them out as close as I can, then trace around a pattern and trim to shape.  I've only recently started doing standard patterns.

 

bikecopXXX - Use an actual tubing cutter to cut to length (by far the easiest and neatest way to do it), chamfer the inside a bit with a countersink, epoxy the slabs, and flare using dies in an arbor press.  That's the basics of it.  I got my dies from USA Knifemaker.

Stormcrow,

 

Could you please provide us with dimensions of  these pieces?

Approximate dimensions, yes.  :)  The blades are about 6 1/2" and the spine starts at 1/4" and tapers distally.  Not sure about the OAL.

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I have always been a big fan of your work, keep it up! :)

I got these pictures today in my e-mail from the customer who had gotten a matched pair of Benghazi Warfighters for himself and his wife.  This is the 578th feral hog that the wife has killed since the spread of the porcine plague reached their ranch in early 2008.  It's around 220 pounds.

 

If you haven't seen the damage a herd of hogs can do in a single night, it is amazing and devastating.  They have reached my family's farm in the last couple of years and when they hit it looks like someone got drunk and went plowing, tearing up acres of ground as they search for grubs and other edibles.  They are a terrible infestation here in Texas, and I rejoice at every one killed.

 

Since these are killed for population control (and due to their huge numbers), the wife typically cuts out the backstrap and disposes of the rest of the carcass.  She commented on how the blade cut effortlessly through the tough hide "like butter" and how the handle fit her comfortably.  Both are things I like to hear from a customer.  :)

 

 

 

 

 

That's a mighty fine knife.  Awful clean cuts she made with it.  I'm glad to see that even though they're doing population control they still have the decency to at least grab that canadian bacon.  I probably would have flipped him over and gone for the slab bacon too.  It is sad, but I can imagine that there are probably more than a few people that would just let the entire animal rot for spite, especially if they got into a field that was just starting to look good.