John P.
AH enthusiast
In the 1980's I was on a knife making kick and produced about 50, most were for gifts. I kept a few and have some blanks left plus about 500 pounds of band mill blades. Band mills are huge band saw type sawmills for milling big logs. The steel is called L 6 saw steel and makes a very nice tough knife blade that is easy to sharpen.
So the photos: The knife at 3:00 position is hand forged from some wear bar steel I obtained from a paper mill.
The four blanks in the upper left are patterns.
Handles are brown micarta with 316 Stainless steel knife screws that I made.
This blade style is very easy to use when skinning: I have used the knives on Roosevelt Elk and Mule Deer here in the Pacific NW of the U.S.
I have a lot of the knife steel that I cannot live long enough to use up: Von Gruff if we can figure out a way to ship it to Australia cheap I will send some to you. Lots of Micarta also.
So the photos: The knife at 3:00 position is hand forged from some wear bar steel I obtained from a paper mill.
The four blanks in the upper left are patterns.
Handles are brown micarta with 316 Stainless steel knife screws that I made.
This blade style is very easy to use when skinning: I have used the knives on Roosevelt Elk and Mule Deer here in the Pacific NW of the U.S.
I have a lot of the knife steel that I cannot live long enough to use up: Von Gruff if we can figure out a way to ship it to Australia cheap I will send some to you. Lots of Micarta also.