Show me your custom camp knife/chopper.

[shaving sharp]

This is a custom I had made by Brian Johnson.8 inch blade 2 inches wide and 1/4 thick 5160 steel.

 

[defaultuser]

Here's mine

 

[stephanfowler]

I've REALLY enjoyed playing with this one since I made it


9 1/2" 1095 Blade Clay HT'd
Caramel Micarta handle
416 SS Double Guard

 

[WILLIAM.M]

3RD ONE DOWN

 

[RogerP]

One of my very favourite categories - here are a bunch for you:

Dan Farr Competition Cutter:

"Mojo" camp knife made by Dan Far, Matt Gregory and yours truly:

"Canadian Bushwacker" camp knife made by yours truly:

Amboyna chopper with a killer hamon that Matt Gregory made for me:

Full integral camp knife by Burt Foster:

"Old Yeller" and "Mitternacht" camp knives by yours truly:

Carbon fiber reinforced walnut handle on this mid-sized camp knife by Dan Farr:

Damascus integral camp set by Bailey Bradshaw:

 

[braillediver]

Roger you're making some real nice knives. It must be very satisfying being able to make them like you want.


Mitch

 

[RogerP]

Thanks very much Mitch.

Roger

 

[Doberman_Dave]

This was my first knife from Matt Lamey and is definitely one of my favorite users. I'm glad he didn't end up keeping it for himself after all.

It handles like a dream and cuts likewise. Seems like the edge is always exactly where I want it to be (maybe a given for other people, but not always as much as I'd like for myself).

Blade - W2, 10" x 2" x .25" tapering to .125" near the tip
Handle - maple, stainless guard

Dave

 

[Hmathews]

This is our favorite camp/chopper to date. Charlie made this several years ago and we have made several variations since. This one remains our favorite. It went through a 2X4 in four chops (deep ones, not fast ones), including a nail, without a mark on the blade. You couldn't feel a single hanging rope when you hit it or a bundle of 6. The handle was designed after a small antique hand ax in Charlie's collection and there are no hotspots with extended chopping. The blade is one of two blades that have left our shop that we can't identify the steel with absolute certainty. It heat treated like 5160 and came from a truck spring. The handle has Bubinga scales and the blade is 10 inches long, flat ground with a Moran edge. The blade has a reverse taper....at the widest part of the blade, it is 3/8 inch thick at the spine. At the front of the handle the blade is 1/4 inch thick and at the butt the full tapered tang is 1/8 inch thick.

 

[Russ Andrews]

Not much to look at, but last I knew this one was at work somewhere south
of Maylasia. 8" blade is L6, and 5 1/2" horse stall mat handle is very grippy
for wet work. Meant to be a light brush knife.......

 

[TekSec]

Here's one I made a little bit back....

 

[Doug C]

Bailey Bradshaw, Competition Cutter, 10", CPM 3V rubber.

Craig Camerer, 10"+, W2 belah (aussie black oak).

John Fitch, 10", 1084 stag.

Matt Lamey, 8", L6 koa.

Chris Moss, 12 1/4", 1084/15n20 DI.

Matt Roberts, 9 1/4", 5160 buckeye burl.

Matt Roberts, 8 1/4", 5160 walnut.

Doug

 

[resinguy]

Burt Foster Blue Collar Camp knife

Bill Siegle Jungle Knife

Jim Crowell Camp/Competition

 

[P. McKinley]

This is one I finished up for myself just a few weeks ago. I'd never had a proper "big chopper"...... I do now!

Blade: O1 steel 3/16" x 11" cutting edge length, 3 3/8" at its widest.
Handle: Figured Bubinga with black fiber liners and ebony pins.
Sheath: Bubinga, fully lined with oiled leather, full welt, removable shoulder strap.

 

[JParanee]

Wow guy's some real beauties. To many to mention by name

I have used a bowie for a camp knife

Local maker Bob Kuhn This thing is a chopper and a half

MMHW Ted makes a heavy D knife here is a bowie but I have another bigger one without a sharpened clip and not so pointy which he calls a survival bowie. I keep it in my Hum Vee

I also use alot of Busse's and Beckers for hard use knives although they are not custom's

But for big time chopping Steve from Coalcreeck forges these from jackhammer bits and they make for great camp tools and fun to throw

 

[SBranson]

Here are my 2 knives. First is by Ray Richard (same as in my avatar)
It's got a 8 3/4" blade of W2 with a nice hamon, wrought iron fittings and a bubinga handle.

The other is by a local maker Dave McKenzie who lives up island from me. It's made from 1095 off an old logging truck at about 9 1/2" blade with Cypress burl handle and iron fittings. I did the vinegar patina.
It's a real chopper.

 

[Lorien]

Joe, that bearded hawk is awesome!

 

[shaving sharp]

Here is one from Bill Siegle.

 

[lwrhea]

Here is one of my favorites. 5160 steel, 10 inch blade, and a handle of laminated Cocobolo and Blackwood. Lin

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

"Belle Blue" said she wanted to play!
5160, Bakelite and wrought iron:

Here I seperated a piece of oak from itself to test the heat treat and then a close up of the result: