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dogman

dogman

Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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I have no agenda as a born-again knifemaker other than to enjoy the process and make whatever I feel like making.

I finished a couple of nordic-style knives. Both have ZDP-189 blades. The dark-handled one has a zircote handle and a mammoth ivory spacer between two red spacer. The guard is 416 stainless. The lighter handled one is lignum vitae with some birch bark I harvested locally, also with red spacers and a 416 stainless guard.

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This one is more in line with my knives from 20 years ago. 154CM blade, 416 stainless bolsters, sambar stag scales with red liners.

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Most recent...Mike Norris stainless damascus blade and some nicely figured desert ironwood. The handle is contoured, although it doesn't show well in the pic. I need to go back and fill a few fissures in the wood.

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Thanks. I've been steadily working on knives, but typically just an hour or so every night. I have no boundaries, so a lot of things I'm doing for the first time and that takes a lot of extra time figuring it out....and a lot more time fixing mistakes😅.

Also learning how to make leather sheaths since my sheath guy is long dead, so more time learning.
 
That was the first bolstered knife I made in the new era. I had to pin it twice because I screwed up the peening the first time, but it came out very nice.

Finished up my first kiridashi. I made this one left-handed for myself so I can use it to cut leather.

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