Hera, Artemis and Styx

Alain M-D

Alain M-D

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I am happy to show you my last creations! It is my first batch
of knives intended to be sold and my first batch of stainless knives.
(approximately my eighth, ninth and tenth knife, and my second,
third and fourth sheath)

Lets me know what you think of them !

Hera.jpg

Héra
Length: Blade: 3,25" Overall 8", Hollow grind,
Steel: ATS-34, 59-60 Rc + Cryo
Bloodwood handle with home made mosaic pins (brass)
Vegetal tanned leather and Cod leather inlay


Artemis.jpg

Artémis
Length: Blade: 3,25" Overall 8,25", Hollow grind,
Steel: ATS-34, 59-60 Rc + Cryo
Bocotte handle with brass bolster (dovetail)
Home made mosaic pins (brass and copper)
Vegetal tanned leather and Salmon leather inlay


Styx.jpg

Styx
Length: Blade: 4" Overall 8,5", Hollow grind,
Steel: 440c, 58-59 Rc + Cryo
Linnen Micarta handle
Home made mosaic pins (brass and copper)
Vegetal tanned leather and Salmon leather inlay



More pictures and technical info available on my web site (on the botom
of my web page, click on the tumbnail.) Sorry, my site are only in french for
now, but I work on a english version for soon)

Thanks to all for your help with these forums !
(and thank you to endure my bad English)

Alain Miville-Deschênes
http://www.amd.miville-deschenes.com
 
Hi Alain,

From your other post in Shop Talk:

"As I say it in bottom of my post in the Galery forum I work on a english version...
And I would like to put informations, help and tutorial for beginner (like me there are one year ago)..."


That is going to be really fantastic when you put up an english version with tutorials and such, I'm really looking forward to seeing it. When you do, if you need any help with someone proofreading and making suggestions for proper grammar and such, please don't hesitate to contact me, I'd be more than happy to help! Well, actually, I'm really sort of volunteering my wife, she's a history Ph.D. and is very good at editing written english...she grades many many papers from students on a regular basis! :) So anyway, if you need any help in that department, please ask, I'm more than happy to help!

BTW, I'll say it again, that website is really fantastic, and so are your knives!!!

:)

-Darren
 
Alain, Very nice work, very nice. and I really like those fish skin sheaths. Is the fish skin very durable? I didn't even know that you could tan fish skin. any way your work is very professional.

Jerry
 
That is going to be really fantastic when you put up an english version with
tutorials and such, I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

I will post my web site address when the english was done !

When you do, if you need any help with someone proofreading and making
suggestions for proper grammar and such, please don't hesitate to contact me...

Cool ! It is a really nice offer ! I found somebody to help me to translate it, but
english is not its first language, therefore I think that proofreading will be a
good idea !

BTW, I'll say it again, that website is really fantastic, and so are your knives!!!

Thanks again !!!

Is the fish skin very durable? I didn't even know that you could tan fish skin.
any way your work is very professional.

Fish skin are very durable and resisting but the leather are pretty thin.
Fish skin is tanned for a long time but is not much known (eel and ray are
more known and used). Salmon an cod leather resemble to snake but
contrary to the snake, the scales are removed...

For my sheath, I use the fish leather, but I glue and sew it on cowhide
(vegetal tanned) because the fish leather is too thin and is not vegetal
tanned (I think)...

Alain M-D
http://www.amd.miville-deschenes.com
 
Wow, very nice. I particularly like Hera, and the sheaths are really cool looking too.
 
No fair! You seem to have skipped several years of the learning curve in this knife making bracket, as those are all to well executed for a newer guy! All look first class, and the sheaths are spectacular as well. I never would have expected it from a guy who hales from Quebec. :D Just joshing. Superb workmanship, Alain.

Clint
 
Excellent specimens of well designed blades. Can't detect any flaws.
 
Thanks everybody !
All these good comments are are good reasons to continue
to make knives !

Clint, sorry if that does not seem too fair, but I work on
these three knives since more than six months ! That appeared
several years for me! :D

Alain M-D
http://www.amd.miville-deschenes.com
 
Nice looking knives - very clean lines. And great sheaths too. Well done!

Roger
 
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