A few recent knives

[Josh Rider]

Hi guys!
I don’t post on here as often as I’d like, most of my stuff is posted on Instagram, but I’m going to try to start doing it more.

The first are a couple kwaikens I enjoyed making very much,inspired by Matthew Gregory’s work. He helped me through them and photographed the top one. His mentoring has really been invaluable to me.

1075 and ironwood


A2 and marbled carbon fiber


Here’s an edc/back-up knife for a SWAT team medic I work with.

A2 and black micarta


Elmax and textured micarta


AEB-L and carbon fiber


Cpm 3v and some of John Doyle’s gorgeous tiger maple




A2 and OD/black g10


A2 and micarta


Thanks for looking!
Any comments/criticism welcome.

 

[seanj]

Very nice! I especially like that little dagger

 

[Richard338]

Several interesting pieces, very nice.
What is the wheel size on the hollow ground dagger?

 

[Lorien]

I like that lil dagger too

 

[john april]

all looking good !

 

[Dawkind]

Great job my friend....still trying to wear out my Rider Gyuto.

Yeah, I’m right in line on that dagger...

 

[Carl Colson]

great job Josh!

 

[Matthew Gregory]

The dagger is so over the top that it’s mindboggling. Seriously, that’s awesome. The rest of your knives here show your capabilities, but that little dagger is just electric sex, man. SWEET!

 

[ArchVV]

Nice work! I'm still lovin' the kwaiken I got from ya.

 

[Josh Rider]

Thanks guys! I really appreciate the kind words. That’s why I love posting stuff on here, it’s funny I really didn’t give the dagger a whole lot of thought, but after it was done I really liked it as well.

 

[Josh Rider]

Richard, the wheel was a 2” rubber coated idler wheel. I got the idea from, believe it or not, M. Gregory, who had a badass DEEP hollow on one of his knives. When I inquired about it he challenged me to try it some time with a small wheel. It wasn’t easy to freehand, but I’m going to do some more for sure.

Several interesting pieces, very nice.
What is the wheel size on the hollow ground dagger?

 

[Josh Rider]

Nice work! I'm still lovin' the kwaiken I got from ya.

Great to hear! I had fun making it.

 

[Richard338]

Richard, the wheel was a 2” rubber coated idler wheel. I got the idea from, believe it or not, M. Gregory, who had a badass DEEP hollow on one of his knives. When I inquired about it he challenged me to try it some time with a small wheel. It wasn’t easy to freehand, but I’m going to do some more for sure.

Wow, so a 1" radius. I'm setting up to try one in a 2" radius, so I paid attention when I saw your work.
To my eye, then you "walked it up" a little also?

 

[Josh Rider]

Wow, so a 1" radius. I'm setting up to try one in a 2" radius, so I paid attention when I saw your work.
To my eye, then you "walked it up" a little also?

I’m sure I did a little bit. The tough part is trying to keep everything symmetrical because every time you get one bevel refined the other 3 are effected. It took a bunch of fine-tuning to get it where I was happy. If you plan on doing a dagger, you’ll see what I mean.

 

[Dusty One]

Very nice looking work !

 

[jdm61]

Yeah, that little dagger is pretty cool.