Show me your full-tang customs!

[Wulf]

As much as I love a fully dressed blade, I've always had a soft spot for full tang knives. They're simple, but highly effective and dependable designs that can remain fully functional even after the handle material is degraded, weakened, or lost due to heavy use or extreme environmental conditions. There's a lot to be said for that.

So let's not let these little workhorses get overshadowed by their fancy stick-tang cousins - sometimes it's just better to hang out with your tang out! Come join me, you may just find it incredibly liberating

I'll start with this damascus and ironwood hunter I delivered to a very happy customer just yesterday.

The blade on this one is 1084 / 15n20 damascus, the handle is a really nice piece of Arizona desert ironwood burl, and the pins and lanyard tube are stainless steel.

I left the tang a bit proud of the handle scales to both highlight the damascus pattern and improve tactile response. Though this little detail requires a lot more close finish work to do properly, I feel that it looks good and feels nice in the hand as well.

So let me hear your comments, and better yet, post some of your favorite full tang knives!

 

[AVigil]

One I just finished up

 

[Tad Lynch]

Don't do that many really, but here's one. I love the feel of the ram's horn. 1075 blade.

Tad

 

[Don Hanson III]

Very nice one Wulf! Here are a few.

 

[J. Doyle]

Hard to top the one on your OP. That's a beauty!

Here are a few I've done:

 

[Dawkind]

 

[Don Hanson III]

 

[Scoli Forge]

Mine isn't as fancy as most, but I thought it turned out nice.

Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

 

[Chris Montgomery]

Here are a couple recent ones. 15n20 Fillet knife and a forged 80CrV2 hunter/utility.
Some great knives showing up in this thread.

Chris

 

[scottishsmith24]

Here's one of mine, carbon fiber and black ash burl.

 

[thales2015]

Sorry, wrong thread

 

[i4Marc]

Sure, I'll play.

 

[Lorien]

not mine, but my design, by Ryan Weeks;



a dagger I designed for my wife, brought to life by Mike Quesenberry;



a chopper type knife I drew up, as interpreted by Magnus Axelson;



a rad piece by Stuart Branson;


and a chute knife by Marcus Lin that I've tried to sell numerous times, and am glad I still have;

 

[daizee]

I can't really hang in this company, but what the hell.

Here's a blade I sent Mistwalker for some feedback a couple years ago (his pictures).

5/32" A2, 5" blade, kydex and leather drop-loop bushcraft sheath:

 

[BenR.T.]

My Wingman.



Skookum


I occasionally do full tang kwaikens. ; )

 

[jdm61]

These are all of the full tang knives I have ever made. Still not really good at it. The kitchen knife is the most recent. That turned out okay.

 

[Del Raso Knives]

Small Game ground from some of Shawn McIntyre's sanmai.




CPM154 Camp knife




CPM 154 Hunter and Small Game pair.






ATS34 Utilitys




Gent's Dirk





Better stop now.

 

[RogerP]

Love this one by Lin Rhea - really would like to chop some stuff with it but the opportunity has not presented:

Love this one by the OP, too, and it has been put to work. Bites deep.

And this one, taking full tang to a whole nother level:

And while I dig Matt Gregory's Japanese-inspired blades (and own a few) I am real glad to have this old-school-cool full tang bowie:

 

[timos-]

AEBL and Jatoba

Redwood burl and 3V

 

[hardingknives]