What next?

Daniel Koster

Daniel Koster

www.kosterknives.com
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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What style knife should I take a crack at next?

I seem to be "branching out" in my knifemaking...


Anything anybody is interested in particularly?
 
A gaucho knife would be great. I love the concept--shaped like kitchen knives, but a little more robust for field use.
 
Oh I dunno, a Koster version of my favorite outdoor knife design of all time--the Grohmann #4, would be pretty cool. The flat ground, carbon steel version they have is so very nearly a perfect knife--if ONLY they'd run it three or four points harder on the Rockwell C scale...

http://www.knivesdirect.com/images/w4sf.jpg
 
How about a relatively small and light weight, but stout backpackers knife?
 
What I would like to see is a copy of the CS OSS knife made from 1/2" stock with stainless guard/sub-hilt and a micarta or wood handle. I need to find someone to make me one of these.
 
Hard to say.

From now you tried small, big, EDC, camp, kitchen. And those are legal almost everywhere (no push dagger for instance).

I don't know. Maybe something even bigger? A small sword or a kind of machete?
 
These are all some excellent suggestions. Tedwca - shoot me a PM. :thumbup:


Keep 'em coming!
 
yes...you're right...that would do well. I'm busy digging through my orders right now...soon...soon! :D :p
 
if you want, DIJ...you could start a new thread here with the pics...might be a good place to keep the info readily accessible. your call.
 
I think you should make an impractical 'art' knife. Branch out yo!
 
I had to kind of random ideas the first in this is kind Attwood designed is a ring hafted knife with a small chisel ground blade kind of a mix of self-defense and whatever's necessary emergency type application. Basically just a very tough knife that won't get knocked out of your hand.

The second along somewhat similar lines to be a fixed emergency tool what springs to my mind is a carbide stud on one end a nice wooden handle in a kind of a two-pronged fork with the scallops chisel ground edge.

while I'm on the subject some of the stuff on your site is higher and then which normally sell on the forum, and I definitely understand the desire to have a firm buyer before you invest in all the time and materials. But it'd be interesting to see you go after a higher and market on this site
 
How about this one Dan!?

This is one I whipped up the other day in some quiet time, would make a great back packers / hikers knife in 3/16" with a 5.5" blade/5" handle! To me anyway....

I might get you to build me one anyways if interested!? Do you do custom designs?

(knife is the camp style at top).

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