Show me your custom camp knife/chopper.

RogerP said:
Not much forging for me of late, Fuad.

Roger
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It must be contagious. I've been leaning to the "Dark Side" of knifemaking lately. I do have my performance blade ready to test and I've been threatening Burt with coming to his shop for months now. I don't think he believes me anymore.:)
 
F. Accawi said:
It must be contagious. I've been leaning to the "Dark Side" of knifemaking lately. I do have my performance blade ready to test and I've been threatening Burt with coming to his shop for months now. I don't think he believes me anymore.:)
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you best be getting some forging done with my hammer
 
Here's another customer ordered Tusker. This one is massive. 15" overall with a 10" blade, 5/16" thick by 2" wide A2 steel. Yellow G-10 scales with black liners.
Scott

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Wow you've been putting that one through it's paces. That's a big chunk of wood. IRRC that is a 11.5" blade. Nice looking blade if I do say so myself.
 
Here are a couple of my firebreaks with the new field finish I have started doing. I began bead blasting the blades at a customers request. It turned out so good I decided to offer this instead of the "normal" polishing that takes hours and adds hundreds of dollars to the cost. The bead blast actually accentuated the Hamon and only slightly affects the hardened portion of the blade. This finish is much easier to do so I can keep my prices down to were I feel a user should be. I can also refinish this blade much easier than a "normal" polish.

Please excuse the hot spots but it was the only way I could get the hamon to pop.

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Thanks for looking
 
Those Firebreaks look like awfully effective chopping tools. The field finish makes sense and loooks cool. I suspect that a nice, even, 400 grit belt fnish would also work as a cost and labour-saving option.

Roger
 
^^^ Am I seeing things, or does that knife have a big notch cut into the blade about 1/3 of the way along the cutting edge? What would be the purpose of that?

Roger
 
Roger,

A 400 grit finish would also work but not show off the Hamon. The blasted finish also sets up a base for other finishes, like parkerizing or baked lacquer. the blades on the firebreaks are clay backed. The difference in the finish is purely the soft area being blasted but the hard area not being affected to a great deal. It does have a very slight affect on the hard areas but I just go back and hit them again with 800 grit to bring it back up.
 
RogerP said:
^^^ Am I seeing things, or does that knife have a big notch cut into the blade about 1/3 of the way along the cutting edge? What would be the purpose of that?

Roger
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You ARE seeing things. The edge is cutting into two different branches at the same time.
 
Well, its extremely tough to compete with some of the action here (Ive saved many of these for my personal 'drool files' :D) but I've done some pretty serious chopping with this fella...

This is a bowie made by local maker Stuart Smith. Its forged and differentially treated 52100 with a convex edge. Blade is 8 and bit inches and its just over 14 inches in total. Handle is tambotie with mokume guard.

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This is my latest, nessmuk stile but much massiv than the original.
The cutting edge is divided in three areas, next to the ricasso is fine, also to the tip of the blade, and in the middle is like an axe edge.

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And the handle after I have changed the ending bolster.

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For comparison - Kabar Large Heavy Bowie, my self made Hudson Bay Company Knife and the Heavy Nessmuk

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damn that's a slick knife Joe.
 
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