Stock Removal Skinning

This is an experience on stock removal. A small skinning knife (6 1/4 or ~16cm long), made from a 1/4" flat bar of 5160 steel. The bouster and the pommel are stainless steel (316). The handle is made from Buckeye Burl scales.

Sandero Style

This is a new hunter knife that I produced following this popular shape called Sandero. In fact It is mainly characterized by the handle shape, developed and named by the famous american knifemaker Jerry Fisk.
The wood is the same I´ve been using and I´m still having trouble to finish it and make it clear and glossy.
The blade was forged from a flat spring, the guard and pin are made of stainless steel. It has 9" overall length .

First damascus knife

These are some photos of my very first attempt to produce damascus steel blades. In fact, I´ve tryed it before but this is the first finished knife. It was began with 14 layers, 7 of 15N20 (rich nickel steel) and old files (1095, I gess). 15N20 produces the light stripes while the 1095 becomes dark after eaching. The billet was streched and folded 3 times (that was all my arms could handle) resulting in aproximatly 105 layer. After that I forged a full tang Integral knife and made some slots all over the blade area using a grinding disc to "enrich" the damascus pattern. By the end, I still got some delamination. They revealed during the forging process.

This is the original billet.

During the folding process, the photos were taken by a cel phone.

The result.

New hunter

This is a new hunter knife I’ve just finished. Forged from a flat spring, it is a small knife, 8"(~200mm) length overall. The guard, pins and pommel were made from stainless steel. The handle was made from Amarelinho (Helietta longifoliata Britt., Rutaceae). It is a light yellow colored wood but the use of a wrong polishing compound introduced these dark grains.