custom/handmade Japanese inspired tanto pics

Stuart - understood - I'll look forward to the big reveal whenever the time is right for you and your customer.

Roger
 
Daniel Fairly Knives said:
Here's a recent one of mine in .315" D2 steel.

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I am REALLY loving this one.
 
broe said:
Second one down is for my Leather working friend who makes holsters and gives me free all his left over stingray skins. I have done quite well with the free skins and have not bought any in 4 years. The name of it is 'Ohn" which means ''favor or obligation'', which is very fitting since it is free to him (he is making the sheath himself). I used left over high carbon and alloy armor plate mystery metal to make this hissatsu (yeah I know...I really don't know what it was except for the carbon (.95%) and the alloy mix. I got it for making CQB combat hawks). The rest is just red stingray and epoxied cord wrap. I lived in Japan 3 years and studied martial arts there as well as blades and kendo.

The bottom was from 0.341" piece of beta titanium and is 24"long by 1.5" high from widest point. The edge is titanium carbide and is about R60 and the back is about R50. It was bead blasted and it has an interference fit titanium guard that is rainbow heat colorized, light gray stingray and gray cord. It has Japanese engraving on it with a chisel that calls it "Ghost". It went to a dear friend who then sold it due to money problems. I have hidden away material for 2 more buried as I don't want the material stolen from the shop. I had a total of 40 pounds of the 5/16" beta ti I got for almost nothing 4 years ago and I am not doing anything with it. Needless to say....it weighs about one pound....and really can cut....when I presented it to my friend he was crying and I got a man hug in front of his wife.

I love seeing these all in here and I find all of them inspiring in some way...tactical...traditional...Americanized...they all appeal to me as I like simplicity and the lines.
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could i email you with some questions? because im interested in the Ti and in something like what you call the Ohn
 
That was a project that Jason Knight and I did awhile back

It was a limited run but you might be able to find one around or get Jason to make you something similar
 
Some where hollow ground some flat ground


The bulk came with horizontal scout style sheaths

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I have always liked much of Phil Hartsfield's work and I met him at a show in Oregon some years back. We chatted for hours.
 
Matt,
I really like these two. They are clean and awesome… I generally can't picture myself EDCing a fixed-blade, but I'd carry one of those in a heartbeat.

And I agree with you... Stuart is a stud.

Erin

Matthew Gregory said:
A few of the others I've done relatively recently:

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Not really a tanto, but here's some japanese stuff I've been working on lately.

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Erin Burke said:
Matt,
I really like these two. They are clean and awesome… I generally can't picture myself EDCing a fixed-blade, but I'd carry one of those in a heartbeat.

And I agree with you... Stuart is a stud.

Erin
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Thanks, Erin!
 
Some truly beautiful and inspirational work in this thread.

My own recent work in this genre, as recently posted elsewhere:

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5160 and paracord with a Kydex sheath.
 
Matthew Gregory said:
What are you soaking your handles in, Josh?
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Hey Matthew, Using West System epoxy. Comes in two parts, a 105 resin and 207 hardener. I got mine at alpha knife supply. i think a couple of other supply places are carrying it now too.

It soaks in deep, and leaves your handles as dry looking as when you first wrapped them. The stuff is rock solid, and wears very well against repeated kydex sheath ins and outs. (for lack of a better term...lol)

I mix mine two parts epoxy and one part hardener in a little bathroom cup. I mix it with those cheap little kiddie paint brushes you can find in the craft section at walmart. I use those to paint it on, being careful to not get any on stingray. if it's a cord or hemp underwrap, I'll just paint it inside the diamonds too. I let it do its thing overnight, and it results in a rock solid handle.

Your knives are beautiful btw.
 
Nice work Josh. I like the weave with the hemp and your wraps are super clean.

I use the 105/207 as well. I think the mix with the pumps is actually 3:1. I would check, not for performance purposes but for the fact that you'll run out of hardener before epoxy as they are sold in volumes corresponding to their mix ratio.

West System is great for the reasons Josh says. I actually warm mine a little so it thins out and really soaks in deep.
 
I'm sorry I meant 3 to 1. I was thinking of something else when I wrote that....lol
 
Thanks for bumping this one Chad... I had forgotten about it.
Here's one that I just shot photos of this weekend. I guess it could be called an American Tanto... or maybe some sort of kwaiken. {shrug}

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Erin
 
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