I'm making knives now, what do you guys think of these?

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DeadboxHero

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Finally starting to make some cool stuff.

Just wanted to share

It's been a long journey to get into making knives.

Meet the "Sport Trapper"

I wanted to do a throwback to American Frontiersman knives used by the mountain men who were in my opinion the ultimate hunters and outdoorsman back when the west was "unknown"

These are essentially "Mountainman knives" but with a modern twist, more curves for comfort, and a hyper thin geometry for laser cuts and hard steel.

Just using 8670 on these two but I've got some Nitro V in the pipeline and other interesting steels to explore.


Should be fun knives for Hunters, Sportsman and other precision uses and users.



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In the future I'm going to explore some more "burly" options with thicker stock for a more all purpose survival type knife we'll call the "Super Trapper"

But for now I'm going to explore some exotic steels with the "Sport" Trapper since it cuts like a laser with the thin grind and can really show off the steels performance for what a knife should do,
Cut stuff.
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No orders.

Just wanted to hear what people think.

Thanks guys

-Shawn
 
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Very nice! I like the ergos on the handles and the slight negative pitch from blade to handle. They look like you can easily two finger them for light cuts but at the same time with a full grip look like they can handle larger tasks as well. Dig it!
 
Way to go !
Glad to hear some body is having some fun around here.
What do I think ?
Smooth . . . very smooth . . . smooth blade . . . smooth handle.
Maybe too smooth in the handle for me.

Trapper.
Trapper ?
I'm having a hard time getting an idea of scale.
Being the pathetic, Nancyboy, city slicker that I am when I hear Trapper I think the Case two blade pocket knife or the Brad Zinker Urban Trapper.

Yours are much much bigger right ?
They look kind of huge actually. What are the blades like seven or eight inches long or am I way off ?
Keep up the great work !
 
Wowbagger said:
Way to go !
Glad to hear some body is having some fun around here.
What do I think ?
Smooth . . . very smooth . . . smooth blade . . . smooth handle.
Maybe too smooth in the handle for me.

Trapper.
Trapper ?
I'm having a hard time getting an idea of scale.
Being the pathetic, Nancyboy, city slicker that I am when I hear Trapper I think the Case two blade pocket knife or the Brad Zinker Urban Trapper.

Yours are much much bigger right ?
They look kind of huge actually. What are the blades like seven or eight inches long or am I way off ?
Keep up the great work !
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Hahaha Yup you guessed it, these are about 7" long on the blade.
 
Not enough protection from fingers sliding up onto the blade. Combine that with a slick handle and a wet handle and that's a no no for me. I learned the hard way processing a 500 pound hog the importance of a deep finger guard or stop. These are not all the same pig, we also raise and butcher quite a few other animals. So I've come to know what I do and don't like in knives that will be used on critters.






Congrats for making the leap.
 
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Brad "the butcher" said:
As a former meat cutter,
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Boy I envy you. Been doing this %$#@!! job for 44 years. Tried to get out of it twice, but like being stuck in tar, I'm still stuck in it. Ah well not long to go now....

Oh yeah, forgot to add, real nice knives and they look like they would be real handy to use.
 
I was thinking like these other two gentlemen, very smooth lines but seems like you would want some kind of small guard at least to prevent your hand from slipping up the blade. They look like wicked slicers.
 
I love 'em, they look like excellent performers.

I don't necessarily like the looks of the handle with the particular blade shape, but I can tell they would fit the hand well and the simplicity of th blades is definitely a good thing.


Btw Those mountain men of the frontier knew how to use their extremely simple knives without cutting themselves, I think people have probably been spoiled by having finger guards and choils...ect.

If your goal was the ultimate hunting knife I'd say maybe more finger protection is needed, but with the nod to the frontier you have in mind I think they're just fine as is.
 
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Guess I missed this thread when it started.

Those are nice looking knives, Shawn. Not an easy craft to take up. The only thing I'd change is putting the sharpening choil at the end of the plunge line, so you reduce the stress riser. Your design is great. Elegant and functional.
 
Looking good! These look like excellent meat slicers!
 
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