Any Pics Of Ya Early Stuff Mark ?

[pitdog]

Title says it all really, any chance of seeing pics of your early work so we can see how your knives have changed over the years ?

 

[mtnfolk mike]

i have had the pleasure of owning a few of Mark's earlier knives over the years... i'll try and dig up some pics...

 

[m. wohlwend]

This is some old stuff !!!

The computer I used for all my old stuff crashed. Before it did we put all the pics on disk. That disk is in storage in MO, however I found a few on an old web page. Give me some time and I will get these transfered over....

From left to right... !.
1. How I got started when I was a kid... knife made from handsaw blade material
2. next stock removal from large saw blade
3. first "forged blade", the black had a crack in it so I beat it out on a railroad iron laying on my shop floor...
4. little better forged blade.. I built ALOT of these "three finger" knives for ebay
5. After reading Wayne Goddards Fifty Dollar Knife Shop, I built this large skinner

hunter...

 

[m. wohlwend]

i have had the pleasure of owning a few of Mark's earlier knives over the years... i'll try and dig up some pics...

Thanks Mike! :thumbup:

 

[raylaconico]

Hey Mark, those actually look pretty cool!

 

[m. wohlwend]

Here are more....these were cut out of a huge sawmill blade....

 

[m. wohlwend]

Here is a picture of the first full time maker that I ever became aquainted with, Robert Edge. He isn't on the net, so you will have to drive down main street in Galenna, KS to locate his store. I took my first lessons from him.

Close up of the knife I was holding...

 

[pitdog]

This is some old stuff !!!

The computer I used for all my old stuff crashed. Before it did we put all the pics on disk. That disk is in storage in MO, however I found a few on an old web page. Give me some time and I will get these transfered over....

From left to right... !.
1. How I got started when I was a kid... knife made from handsaw blade material
2. next stock removal from large saw blade
3. first "forged blade", the black had a crack in it so I beat it out on a railroad iron laying on my shop floor...
4. little better forged blade.. I built ALOT of these "three finger" knives for ebay
5. After reading Wayne Goddards Fifty Dollar Knife Shop, I built this large skinner

hunter...

They all looked great even back then !!!

I like the handle on the first forged blade, if the blade was a drop point it would look great !

The large skinner is sweet, reminds me of a Roach Belly !!!

 

[m. wohlwend]

I worked alot with elk horn in the past......

 

[j williams]

An earlier Bushcrafter model from Mark....

Kephart and a Skinner