Case Peanut CV - Amboyna Burl handles, fileworked springs. One of the first knives I'd ever customized. |
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Case model 11031 Rope knife (1974) with pin-less Juniper handles and
simple point file work |
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Case model 6202 2 blade Jack knife (1945-64) with Amboyna burl wood
handles, Nickel Silver pins and alternating U file work. Done as a gift
for John Sr. |
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Case (Chrome Vanadium) Baby Butterbean with Pin-less Juniper handles
and African Blackwood spacers. Dog bone file work on the back spring. |
 
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Case Slimlock - This is a JRC Case Slimlock with a BG42 blade, one of
the newest "Super Steels" for knifemakers. For a factory
knife, it was well put together, but the original bone handles were not
dyed very well, and had sunken pins, which made it look sloppy. I
replaced them with naturally colored (amazing color, really) Sycamore
Lace, and cleaned up the bevels around the bolster screws. So far, BG42
is a VERY nice blade steel. Time will tell how it holds up. |
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Case model 6202 1/2 2 Blade jack knife (4 dot, 1976) - Something really
simple, and a fixture in my pocket recently. My second 6202, this one is
done with some simple smooth elk antler handles and satin finished blades.
There was quite a bit of restore work done here. |
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Schrade model 12OT single blade Peanut. Hawaiian Koa wood handles,
Nickel Silver pins, Serpentine file work on the back spring. I made 2 of
these, one for my brother, and one for my dad.
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Schrade model 34OT medium stockman. Hawaiian Koa wood handles, Brass
pins and mirrored U's and Points file work. Given to me by my dad, this
knife was owned and well used by my late grandfather. |
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Canal Street Cutlery Canittler (canoe frame whittler) with D2 steel
blades. Handles are done with African Blackwood and Nickel Silver, which
was a nightmare to do. The end result was well worth it. Corresponding U
file work. |
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Schrade model 272 Peanut with wooly mammoth bone handles procured
from Mr. Charles Turnage. Nickel Silver pins, black/white/black spacers
and my first attempt at "rope" file work. A word about mammoth
bone: it stinks, literally. I had to air out the house for 2 days.
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Schrade model 3OT lock back. This is the only stainless steel
(schrade+ steel) knife in my collection, but I just couldn't resist it.
Serpentine file work, Nickel Silver pins, Hawaiian Koa with a blackwood
spacer left over from my Canal Street project.
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Schrade model 163 Rope knife. Probably one of my favorite patterns
that I'll rarely have any use for carrying. This big ol' schrade has a
snap like a gator, and will readily take off a finger if your not
careful. Spalted Pacific Madrone handles, Nickel silver pins and Lanyard
hole, simple alternating U file work. |
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Schrade Cut Co - No pattern number. This little 3 1/8 equal end jack
was originally a 2 blade knife, in serious need of repair and love. I
handled it with African Blackwood with Nickel silver pins, and simple file
work. I had to strip it to a single blade due to damage to the small pen
blade (rust, major pitting). The last picture is what I started
with. |
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Schrade Model 108OT - Junior Stockman. The 108 is the first knife I
ever owned. It belonged to my granddad, and I used it for years. Now,
since I feel guilty using anything like that every day, I bought a new one
and customized it. Center liner filework, Amazing natural color sycamore
lace handles with black spacers. |
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Schrade model 34OT Medium Stockman. Done for my brother in law John. Corresponding
U filework, Pacific Madrone handles. A very pretty, very useable knife |
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Schrade 51OT "Big Timer" lockback. Satin finished blade, bookmatched Spalted Hackberry handles, new type of filework for me. I LOVE this knife, it's fantastic. I so rarely work on big blades, and this one was a joy |
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Schrade 12OT "Cope" Peanut. Differing from the normal production 12OT's the Cope models were made for a Copenhagen promotion. They have Brass bolsters instead of Nickel Silver. This particular 12OT has Indian Sambar Stag handles, my first attempt at working with this highly sought after traditional material.
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3 more Schrade knives. The top is a 5OT lockback with a carbon steel blade (most were stainless) done with my new favorite filework pattern, and stabilized Bocote wood. The next one down is another little 3OT lockback, done in some fat, reasonably plain stag. I tried my hand at putting a sheild in on this one. the bottom knife is a 104OT with the liner lock removed, converted to normal pins, with filework on the spring. |
 
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These two jack knives are Kingston Cutlery stamped. Kingston was one of the many Schrade brands, and these date from the 40's. The Serpentine jack is done with Stabilized Oak Burl, and an alternating U filework, the Cigar jack is done with Sycamore lace, one of my best pieces, and a mismatched U filework. The old handles were an early form of plastic which had seen far better days, but I think they look OK for being 60+ years old! |
  
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Moore Maker Small Stockman Pattern Number 5300. Moore Maker is a small
company out of Texas that makes alot of ranching equipment. The also have
some top quality work knives made by Queen and recently Bear and Son
Cutlery. In the past, Camillus made some of their knives. 1095 steel and a
solid working knife has always been the formula. This 2007 stockman was a
factory second, it had a cracked bone handle, which I replaced with some
Mammoth Bone from Charles Turnage! I great little user for around the yard
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5/8 Bengall Straight Razor - A gift from my uncle, the old handles of
this razor had all but given up the ghost. Significant surface rust and
some deep pitting on the stem required alot of work, and I created some
very modern looking handles out of Black G10 composite. Nickel silver
pins, and layered spacer wedge
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This knife is completely custom. It's the first real result from the
forge I built this spring. flat ground O1 tool steel blade, brass pins and
Oak burl handles.
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Great Eastern Cutlery (Tidioute Stamp) #25 Barlow - 1095 high carbon
steel blades, factory ringed bolsters, this knife was a joy to customize.
Absolutely the best put together modern folder I've worked with, hands
down. I gave it the ritz treatment with some 10,000+ year old Woolly
Mammoth Ivory and some very simple filework on the center liner, so as not
to detract from the handles. No buffer on this one (Ivory doesn't like to
get hot) so I hand polished up to 12000 grit.
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Great Eastern Cutlery (Northfield Stamp) #25 Barlow - A companion piece
to the GEC Barlow I did in mammoth Ivory, this one is handled in African
Blackwood, a cousin of Ebony. I really love these GEC Barlows. I'm so
tempted to buy more :D |
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Canal Street Cutlery, Half Moon trapper. This CSC trapper uses a 14-4 Cro Moly blade (one of those new fangled "super" steels for cutlery. Made by Timken) This one uses NS pins, liners and bolsters which set off the Sycamore lace handles quite nicely I think. |
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Another Great Eastern Cutlery #25 Barlow. This is the revamped model, with a thinner secondary blade spring (which you see in older, high end cutlery) and a reshaped pen blade (much nicer than the mini-clip they used prior). This has center liner filework, in a tight alternating U pattern, and Mammoth Ivory handles. |
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Yet another GEC model 25 Barlow, this time with stabilized Mango handles, and filework down the center liner. This is one of the knives I carry every day. If you ever see me around, ask to see it in person :) |
  
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A Great Eastern model 73 Jack knife. GEC makes a really weird 2 blade jack, instead of what would normally be a spear or clip blade, they put in a spey. Either way, I've been kinda wanting to work on one. This is a bit bigger than my usual fare, at 3.75 inches closed. Opposite filework on the springs (really hard to do, since the springs are actually different sizes, but I try :) ) The handles are Spalted Alder, which is incredibly hard to get a picture of. it shifts from light to dark brown in the light, really something you have to see first hand.
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my GEC "Ultralight"
A Great Eastern model 25 Easy Open single blade jack. I actually screwed this one up, and rather than toss it into the spare parts bin, I built a brand new frame for it from 410 stainless, and used black G10 composite for handles. The pivot was reinforced with stainless washers, and the spring has some very tight filework. All in all a really hi-tech looking knife :) |
  
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2008 Spyderco Kopa rehandled with Stabilized african blackwood, lockbar filework, and a brass slug in place of the lanyard hole. A more "modern" take on a small gent's knife. |
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Queen model #40 gunstock jack with D2 blades. Stabilized grey dyed elk antler handles (fantastic antler, the mark side almost reminds me of mammoth ivory) with center liner filework |
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2008 Spyderco Lava. This was a complete rebuild. New frame made from .05 titanium, Black G10 composite handles, lockbar filework. The lanyard is 550 paracord with a handmade Sambar antler bead. |
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GEC #26 3" sleeveboard knife. Wonderful big stubby blades, massive spring just begging to be customized. Stabilized snakewood handles, Nickel pins, backspring filework. |
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#25 pattern EZ Open Great Eastern. Random pattern micarta handles, nickel pins, some slightly pointier filework on the backspring. |
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A newbie to the mix! a CRKT "Graham" Stubby folding Razel. A number of firsts here. First screwed together customized knife, first natural (undyed) G10 handle, freehand texturing on the G10 to give it some serious grip, and liner filework. This knife is a tiny beast! |
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A Spyderco "Byrd" wings slipit. Spyderco's take on a two blade, non locking folder. 8Cr13Mov steel like the Graham Razel's (I kinda like this steel) I textured the bolsters and added some FlatDarkEarth G10 scales. The blades have a half tumbled/half polished finish |
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My First Razel went to a USN Giveaway, and is now residing happily in someone elses pocked. I needed one for myself. Fileworked frame, tumble finished blade, frame, hardware, Textured natural G10 handles. Handmade G10 bead on the lanyard |
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GEC "Ultralight" V2 (Volcanic)
Originally a #25 with bad bolsters, this one got a brand new .05 Titanium frame, Swelled filework on the spring and black polished G10 handles with some Volcanic Orange stripes to mimic the original bolster cuts. |
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Spyderco Urban Slipit. Another non-locking folder from Spyderco. The original knife did not have liners, just slab G10 handles making for a very light little package. The entire frame was replaced with some natural G10 then textured. New filework down the spring. |
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This WWII Era Ulster TL-29 linesman's knife had seen better days when I saved it from Ebay. After copious amounts of WD40 I was able to open the blades and get to work. Reduced to a single blade non-locking knife, tumble finished blade (so as not to remove all the character from it) fileworked main spring, stabilized walnut handles. |
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Another wonderful Schrade 51OT "Big Timer". I loved the first one I did so much, I got another! Stonewashed blade, Random pattern Micarta handles, fileworked spring. Fantastic knife. |
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Great Eastern #25 Jack knife with a sheepsfoot main blade. This one is kinda special for reason's I can't really get into. Filework on the center liner, and stabilized black palm handles. |
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GEC "Ultralight" V2 (CF)
Originally a #25, this one got a brand new .05 Titanium frame, Swelled filework on the spring and polished Carbon Fiber handles with some subdued red liners. |
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Spyderco Urban Slipit. A non-locking folder from Spyderco. The original knife did not have liners, just slab G10 handles making for a very light little package. The entire frame was replaced with Desert tan G10 with Blue G10 liners. Hand textured and wire wheeled for additional grip, with some simple filework down the backspring. |
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Two knives here, The more traditional of the two is a Great Eastern #26 "little Carver". The blades were tumbled with fine ceramic media for a subtle stonewashed look, the backspring fileworked and handles replaced with the last of my wonderful block of Sycamore lace.
The second knife is another #25 "Ultralight V2". Titanium frame, Black G10 bolsters and Carbon Fiber handles. A very sleek, lightweight package! |
   
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This was a restoration of an old XX era Case jack. The original yellow comp handles were melted from being in a store display in the sun for many years. This was my first attempt at hand jigging composites, in this case black paper micarta. |
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Spyderco Sage II framelock. Tumble/stonewashed finished frame which was then annodized with a striped pattern |
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Western camp knife. Rebuilt with wide threaded bolsters, black linen micarta and filework down the thick brass backspacer. |
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Linerless GEC#25 "Ultralight". Hand jigged and bead blasted G10 handles. One seriously thin and lightweight package. |
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Reworked KaBar TDI. Stripped down, fileworked, refreshed the jimping and had the blade Cerakoated armor black, then added some grooved OD/FG G10 handles with much beefier bolts. |
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Severa Custom "Terran" field knife. Pretty much everything I like about a knife in one package. 3/16" thick Cryo treated A2 steel, stonewashed finish with OD/FG G10 Handles. As a prototype, it's a great little blade. Future versions may be a bit longer |
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Boker/Anso Cox slipjoint. Not much work done here, I fileworked the backspring (looks awesome now!) and added an internal stop pin. (when you close the knife, point 1 is supposed to make contact with point 2 and prevent the blade edge from making contact with the steel spring, ruining the cutting edge. That doesn't happen on this knife, because point 1 is to small, and is in the wrong place. good job Boker. I added a 1/8" steel stop pin (point 3) which settles into the choil (point 4) when the knife is closed, preventing any downward movement of the blade into the spring) |
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