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

In short.. they kick ass and I want one. Seriously. Very cool knives man. When you do feel like letting one go I want to know about it, please. I would be honored to buy one. I think they are incredibly impressive for early work, look very useful, and I would feel comfortable using one on a deer, hog, ect. Keep it up man!!
 
I'm really liking these knives. They are all about performance and comfort with a designed ease of maintenance. The steel is a good choice too. Good edge stability to tune the knife as needed and easy to sharpen. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with as time goes by as you seem to make knives I like and that would be useful. :)

Joe
 
Very interesting take on the old hunter pattern. Modern design with a strong flair of traditional ! They look beautiful, supremely elegant, well thought out and easy in the hand. I can almost feel how well they would fit my hand ! I also like the blade/handle ratio : slightly longer blade/slender handle. I bet they are perfectly balanced. And the sharpening notch is the cherry on the cake. I certainly wouldn't want a guard but you could slightly deepen the curve where the handle meets the blade and make the scales with brushed Micarta. That would be the hunter version. That's enough safety for me). As they are, they would be absolutely perfect in the kitchen. I'd say you're good to go !
 
They all look like they would make great slicers and hey isn't that what knives are about. Dang that last post is making me hungry. :D
 
DeadboxHero said:
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Besides being hungry now, your knife looks a great slicer.
 
DeadboxHero said:
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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I like 'em. They're like mountain man scalpels.:D
 
I’m subscribed to you on YouTube and have been watching your progression into making these knives. I think they are wonderfully designed to be users. I personally would love to see some sort of guard to protect my hand from sliding onto the blade, but they look super comfortable.
 
shinyedges said:
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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Yeah, guards are always good to have. At least a half guard. Using a knife with no guard, you have to be much more careful. A lot of the old knives did not have any guard though. And if all hell breaks loose, then injuries to fingers could be severe. Which is why Jim Bowie insisted on ordering one with a guard.
 
Missed this the first time around....and glad you just added to the thread...great looking utility knife which seems to have the essence of a Canadian Belt Knife that receives little attention but an all around stellar performer.
 
Boggs said:
Missed this the first time around....and glad you just added to the thread...great looking utility knife which seems to have the essence of a Canadian Belt Knife that receives little attention but an all around stellar performer.
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Good Eyes, I love the lines on the Canadian belt knife.
 
Elegant purpose driven design, I like it a lot. If I only had picture to go off of I wouldn't have guessed that you haven't been doing this for very long. Looking forward to seeing what else you create!
 
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