Rumblefish - ^^^Cant wait. I was gonna order one tonight, but think I'l wait til the weekend.
Any extra discounts for ordering more than one? (hey-you dont know, if you dont ask, right?)
I got 7 knives tempered and drawn back tonight, put on the handles and whip out some sheaths and they'll be online! Several are file knives, and a tiny file knife I'm making into a neck knife with a cool sheath,should be on tomorrow or Sunday! I hope you like daggers too! >:)
Four more finished, ready to sheath, two are really sweet! They'll be up soon!
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Daggers are up, look at the hunting section, just finished a very cool neck knife,a skeleton handle rasp knife, and another artsy saw blade knife with a pretty green jigged bone handle, going to have some fun and make a fancy sheath for it, warthog or hippo inlay! :) They'll be up soon! I've also got a 16" pry bar I've forged out,and 6 file knives that need to be handled,all will be done soon, keep looking folks!
MORIBUND88 -mr nemo -MORIBUND88 -mr nemo - Heads up everyone! Well, after much longer than I'd like to think about I've finally got my website done and as of a few hours ago I am online and in business! Check out donsknives.com (snazzy title eh?)for functional art, made with my little 4 lb hammer. I forge every blade,old USA high carbon steel exclusively,no stainless,all types of beautiful handle materials to compliment the rugged finish of the blades. I make all types of knives and now that the site is finally up new knives will constantly be added and I'm going to let my imagination go,so keep a constant eye out for more! ..and for the first 30 days, all knives will be 20% off for all UG members and members of our Armed Services abroad, so take a look and take advantage of my opening prices! Hope to do business with you soon,thanks and enjoy! -Don Bishop aka mrnemo- Bladesmith
Why only Carbon Steel?
I too make knives and I know some of the benefits of making knives from carbon steel. I however prefer tool steels and some of the high carbon stainless varieties. If I want to get really fancy I go with a nice birds eye/odins eye, or ladder damascus. I mostly use a stock removal method for these types of materials, but have also in the past forged them as well (depends on the design and requirements of the knife).
Cheers and great work.
Thanks! I like to hit the junk yards, flea markets etc and recycle old steel, love the asthetic good old rusty steel gives a knife, it's great steel. I'd like to experiment with some other steels, I've made some from tool steel, a few from damascus I bought. I'm not set up for hollow grinding and don't like to, it's too easy,really, it's like cheating or something when you learned to forge first- seems like a monkey could do it. Plus, to be honest I'm happiest when I'm swinging my hammer and shaping red hot steel. I sometimes think I'd love to just do the hammering and have someone else put on the handle, make the sheath etc but I love those parts too,I really enjoy the entire process, except hand sanding lol, but just love to hammer!
I want to try to make some damascus, cable and motorcycle chain/chainsaw chain, I like random pattern- I have bought a couple of billets in the past and made a few knives from it, very pretty but everyone is doing damascus right now,that always turns me off to something. I will make some in the future,it's very cool and especially now that the site is up, I need to try to cater to as many folks as I can and it's fun to be versitile, couldn't handle doing the same thing over and over. Thanks again!
If you can get your hands on it, try out old farms for harvester chains to make damascus, also heavycable is really nice to forge, just be careful of chinese steel, it usually has alot of impurities in it that really show up once forged and finished. Leaf springs are also another good source of some good carbon steel
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I've heard 50/50 feedback on ATS-34, half like it, half shake their heads, haven't tried it yet. Actually I've heard that about Seki City steel but totally forgot about it. I've never ordered billets of steel from anywhere, bought a couple of damascus billets at a show,otherwise I use the good US stuff I can find cheap lol. A guy brought me 6 old German files from the 60s, still in the box, never used, I'm holding on to those for the time being, looks like great steel :)
Three more knives should be up by tomorrow and I'm going to see how many of the 6 I've got ready I can handle without a band saw to cut my handle materials,going to be tricky. The inlay sheath would have been too thick so I made it without inlay- still got artsy on it :D and a way cool hidden neck knife is ready too.
Don't know if I mentioned, I have a small supply of elephant, hippo, warthog, springbok, zebra, king cobra, rattlesnake and some other types of hides I can use for inlay on sheaths, beautiful stuff! New knives will be on soon! More to come!!!
good stuff.
MORIBUND88 - I typically use kydex or other durable hard resin type sheaths...I make tactical fixed blade knives and that type of sheath seems to suit them.
ATS-34 is a great steel, there is an american company that makes one very similar, 154CM by Crucible Metals is a good steel usually made through the Powder Metallurgy process.
What do you make your handles from, I try to go with skeleton handles, exotic woods and mostly G-10, Carbon Fibre, and other glass reinforced nylons.
Another great treasure trove for steel is OLD saw mill blades (if you can find them), that is great steel. In my opinion, I wouldn't touch those files/rasps if they are in that good of condition, those are treasures the way they are right now.
Cheers
Well I'm hoping everyone is a little gunshy so lets get things moving shall we? How about a free railroad spike knife contest?
I'll do the classic pick a number between one and one thousand game, send my number choice to Kirik so there won't be any suspicion of favoritism and each person gets 3 numbers, the one who guesses it wins a free railroad spike knife of thier choice! It's not 420 btw, come on, too easy! (Must be at least 18 years of age to participate.) So get the ball rolling and put in your numbers ladies and gentlemen!
Also I failed to mention, just noticed, all my knives come with 10 day money back guarantees, if not satisfied, send it back for a full refund!
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Are the posted prices inclusive of the 20% discount? If not, how do we go about getting that through the purchase process? Is there a code we enter at checkout or something of that nature? Thanks. ;-)
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Do you have anything like a Military Boot knife/push button lockblade? I'm looking for a military lockblade that I can carry in my BDU. Let me know please. Thanks.
