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bindlestitch

bindlestitch

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Andy has been nice enough to invite me over to his forums to show a little of my work and hang out. I'm honored and humbled because I consider his work to be light years ahead of mine but I'm glad to be here.
I've been a fan of his work for a while now, his designs and knife philosophies are similar to mine. Plus he's a convexer, so that makes him a very intelligent dude.:D
Anyway, here's a few pics of some of my recent knives. I hope you enjoy them and I hope to contribute to this forum a bunch in the future.

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This is a quick video I did on the making of that last knife for the customer.
Making of the Big Piney

Thanks for looking,
Iz
p.s. Me and Andy have a little something cooking. I'm revved about it but I'll let him go into that when he decides to.
 
Welcome, I'm new here too. I only have one of his knives, but that hunter is a very nice knife. Now if I can get my hands on a woodsman, life would be good

I have to say, your knives look very nice. Do you have a website?
 
Very cool! Welcome and hope to see you share more of your great work.:thumbup:
 
Iz is being humble, but his knives are beyond his opinion of them as you can see from the fit and finish.

I promise you that if I can get you to come to blade show you'll see makers sitting behind a table full of knives with gaps between the tang and scales. Sometimes large gaps. 1/16". Whoa. You gotta watch your facial reaction very carefully so they don't get their feelings hurt.

Then again, you'll also see masterworks that take skill with tools and materials that will make you queasy, and amateur-feeling. Its harder to control the facial expressions then, but not to worry, that maker won't mind your awe. :thumbup:

The real story is that convex grinds, and edges are the best way to have a blade configured. And historically, most blades ended up this way accidentally as our ancestors sat around a fire with a stone and sharpened their knife at a different angle on each pass.

A few months ago I made a hunter dud. The blade cracked on me in heat treat, and the crack ran right into the edge at 90 deg. I cought it after grinding out the blade, and it sat around for a long time. Last week I decided to try to break it. I started by chopping my anvil, right into the edge, right at the damage. I got some chipping and rolling, but no break. So, not daunted, I slapped the face of the blade HARD on my anvil right at the crack a dozen times. No break. Well. Now I was intrigued. So I went out to my hickory testing branches and batonned that blade cross grain through a 3" hickory round as hard as I could. No breakage, no edge damage. So, I hammered it into the same branch about 2" from the end of the branch and pried the hickory away. Still no break. Still no edge damage except where I chopped my anvil. This is why I love convex. That knife is still sharp, and still shaves my minuscule amount of armhair. Every once in a while I like to do this to my work just to make sure y'all get knives you can count on.

Sorry to ramble.
 
BTW. That first little cutter looks a lot like my Bushcrafter JR. Which was a great knife, and I only discontinued it because folks constantly complained about the small handle. Nice design Iz.
 
Fiddleback said:
BTW. That first little cutter looks a lot like my Bushcrafter JR. Which was a great knife, and I only discontinued it because folks constantly complained about the small handle. Nice design Iz.
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Sorry about that "small handle" thing. <insert shameful smiley>

It's cause many of us have chubby hand syndrome.:)
 
Very cool knives bro. I especially like this one.

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Looks like a helluva slicer.
 
Fiddleback said:
Iz is being humble, but his knives are beyond his opinion of them as you can see from the fit and finish.

I promise you that if I can get you to come to blade show you'll see makers sitting behind a table full of knives with gaps between the tang and scales. Sometimes large gaps. 1/16". Whoa. You gotta watch your facial reaction very carefully so they don't get their feelings hurt.

Then again, you'll also see masterworks that take skill with tools and materials that will make you queasy, and amateur-feeling. Its harder to control the facial expressions then, but not to worry, that maker won't mind your awe. :thumbup:

The real story is that convex grinds, and edges are the best way to have a blade configured. And historically, most blades ended up this way accidentally as our ancestors sat around a fire with a stone and sharpened their knife at a different angle on each pass.

A few months ago I made a hunter dud. The blade cracked on me in heat treat, and the crack ran right into the edge at 90 deg. I cought it after grinding out the blade, and it sat around for a long time. Last week I decided to try to break it. I started by chopping my anvil, right into the edge, right at the damage. I got some chipping and rolling, but no break. So, not daunted, I slapped the face of the blade HARD on my anvil right at the crack a dozen times. No break. Well. Now I was intrigued. So I went out to my hickory testing branches and batonned that blade cross grain through a 3" hickory round as hard as I could. No breakage, no edge damage. So, I hammered it into the same branch about 2" from the end of the branch and pried the hickory away. Still no break. Still no edge damage except where I chopped my anvil. This is why I love convex. That knife is still sharp, and still shaves my minuscule amount of armhair. Every once in a while I like to do this to my work just to make sure y'all get knives you can count on.

Sorry to ramble.
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Man, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the encouragement. It means more than I can say coming from you.
I agree, convex grinds (imo) just can't be beat. Yes there's a special use for every tool but for me the convex is the perfect grind. It does so many things perfectly, a large amount of things well and everything else it does a satisfactory job at.
I actually love getting a do-over knife sometimes because I'm like you, I take it out and beat the living life out of it. Not because it was made to do that but because it allows me to gauge where my knives are on the performance scale.

That little knife is my version of the Kephart companion. The little fish knife he carried with his larger fixed blade. I've had the same complaints about handle size. I guess I've got girl hands. heh.
You rock, Andy.
Iz
 
Its hard to draw a knife with a bigger handle. They just look kinda silly with a handle longer than the blade. It was hard for me to get that. Eventually, the customer made the change for me. The guys here will do that, and I've learned to listen to them.
 
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