Heres the first real knife I've made.

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The blade/hilt guard are made of horseshoes, and the handle is maple with brass pins. Comments/tips appreciated, thanks!

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Hello,
Looks good! Can you give us a side view of it? Keep up the good work!

Yeah, heres another picture from side. Shows off the bad welding lol.

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Just a word about safety. I noticed the end of the knife looks like you may have used a grinder with a hard stone, if you did this is a very unsafe practice. The wood will clog a gringing stone up causing it to overheat in a very short time, this in turn causes the stone to expand and come apart (blowup). I know this beacuse a good friend of mine lost his thumb and index finger when grinding a spikemaul handle flush with the maul head before putting the wedge, in needless to say he never got to use a maul again at least not with his right hand. He was useing an angle grinder with a thick cup stone when this happened. I have stopped other guys that I have been working around that were about to do this and told them the same story, I think it paints a real good picture of how dangerous power tools can be.

Wow, thanks for the advice, ill be much more careful. Since i made that knife, i've gotten a new grinder, and i havent used it much, so ill take precautions

i make a lot of stone masons hammers, and after fitting the shafts and wedging up,all the shaft ends are finished on a belt sander, never the grindstone
my father worked at knife fettling ,and they had heavy leather sheaths that they slipped the blade into whilst they finished the handles, and later he if he was making a turnip knife for the farmers he would wrap strip leather tight around the blade,to work on the handle he never held a blade without, he told me he had seen too many knife and razor grinders in the Sheffield trade with fingers of

here's my first knife.. it's out of a long screwdriver! this took a couple minutes.. it's meant to be an orcish steak knife..

Here you go sqeezplay could nott see the image so I posted it for you.
By the way thats a wicked looking hook

Pj

Julian thats on fine knife you built. Be sure to keep that one its something to be proud of.

Pj 8)

Hey thanks for all the nice comments guys. I posted another new knife too, if you havent seen it already.

thanks PJ..