Post your pics and information of custom knives in this thread.

Rainshadow D2-Moose-Desert Ironwood

Three by RainShadow:



Three by a custom knife maker in my home town:

Man, I used to think I had some nice knives.

This "sticky" thread is for PICS and DETAILS ONLY .

No comments/conversations, just pic, after pic, after pic.

Soon we will have an impressive archive of customs to view.

Thank you for your cooperation

Here is one that Kerry Carver built for me......

Jason Winston/David Winston-S30V by Gene Ingram



David Winston Damascus blade:


Alan Davis--L6 and dyed stag:

Gotta love some mammoth ivory...

Mini San Mai Nessmuk by Larry Withrow, my current EDC






Another San Mai by Larry Withrow








Alan Davis hunter

Hunter by GL Drew

Anza--made from a Nicholson file. Before and after I etched the blade........

Dozier Columbia River Skinner...



I truly well and done goofed when I sold this Scott Cook...



Dozier Semi Skinner...



I just gave this Buck 110 Custom Shop to my son...



However... I kept this one for myself...



I have others but I don't know if I have decent pictures.

First one I made "custom" for me.

some really nice knifes here

Nothing extremely fancy, but here's a nice "pack" skinner, that I got from rainshadow1 (Steve Tormala).

It has a Micarta [sp] handle, & a Kydex sheath.
I'm extremely happy with it, as it has remained very, very sharp.

David Winston #65(mine) and skinner(not mine) in D2 and weathered elk......

Schrade jumbo trapper made by Great Eastern and fully customized by Herman Williams. Herman worked for Schrade for 24 years......

Wow! I love that one! The intricut detail is amazing.

I sure like my budget skinner! I love the shape and feel of the blade. It's a very natural feeling knife.

Grizz here.
This one's from R.J. Custom knives out of Livingston Montana.

Drop point from Dave Kauffman Montana City Montana.

Not really custom but sorta rare Rigid Yukon.

Not really practical but I likes it anyway. Large Randall Sasquatch with elephant ivory handle.

I made this knife for a gift to a friend of mine. He live in AZ, the wood is Mesquiet.





I made this one for my son, the wood is Purple Heart.



I made these 2 daggers(first attempt at making a knife) from the material below. The brass guard is from melted down .223 brass. Wood is ironwood.







This knife was made by a custom maker in Alaska. The handle contains survival gear and a .45 clip.



My Dad made this one back in the early 1900's the blade is a saw blade with a poured bronze handle.

Some really nice knives in this thread. Here are a few I have finished lately.

Ladder Damascus Fighter. Steel is 1084 and 15n20. Guard is stainless. Handle is stabilized redwood burl.


Pair of Matched Nessmuks. One is 1095 high carbon and the other is 5160. Handles are stabilized redwood burl.


Dagger I just finished. It is 1084 high carbon steel sandwiched between some wrought iron from an old wagon wheel tire. Guard is wrought iron and handle is stabilized redwood burl (again). Sheath inlay is beaver tail donated by a problem beaver at work.


That is it for now.

-Forger

Here is one of my handmades. 154 CM, Spalted Maple and brass hardware.

Don't want to let this thread die so here are a couple more.

Fighter with 5160 steel, stainless guard, stabilized redwood burl


Little utility I gave to my Dad. 1084/15n20 san mai steel, wrought iron ferrule, desert ironwood handle. Beaver inlay sheath.

Ryan Arrington Custom.
ATS34 and spalted redwood.





My old Kilgen.

Herman Williams Shrade USA 165 OT in sambar stag.....

Nothing to fancy, a couple of knives I happen to have pictures of with me.

Knife a friend made me in a sheath made by one of our own.

Picture from the maker of my hidefighter


Believe it or not this will end up a knife. Doing everything by hand is incredibly slow. My first attempt at a knife.

My new Gene Ingram... My wife saw me looking at it a couple of times and surprised me by ordering it for me for no good reason at all - just because is all she said about it. I married WAY above my head and thank the good Lord above for her everyday.



Dang it, small picture!

Here are a couple made by my dad. All are made out of A2 tool steel. Heat treated to 57-58 RC. All with a convex grind.

Iron wood


Stabilized Spalted Maple


Sambar Stag

David Winston Model 25 in D2/buckeye burl.......

AA Forge Scandi Bushcrafter:

A new trapper/skinner model. This one is a prototype. A2 carbon steel blade. The blade itself is about 3 1/4" long.

Haven't seen any Menefee knifes posted so I thought I would post mine. Hollow ground 154cm, tapered tang, jigged black paper micarta, red liners.

Had this one made for me and engraved by a fellow Optics Talker to represent


Even had ones made for SWFA's owner and my personal customer service and friend over there Chris and Christopher

And another I had Mike Miller do. The Kabar Baconmaker was my inspiration on this one. (i'm a horrible picture taker)




And a little present for my pops for Christmas

Menefee ready to work.

Wish I had them all in my display case

Here's a little fat skinner I just finished for a Christmas present for my Grandson. Also making one for my Granddaughter, hopefully done with it tomorrow. The blade in stainless and the wood is desert Iron Wood.

some very nice and expencive knives!

Those look great!! How long have you been making knives? I took a "stab" at it, for the 1st time about 3 months ago and just finished and it looks good as a work knife, but it isnt gonna catch any eyes behind a glass case.

That little fat guy is about NR 8 for me.

EPH, I posted pic's of my first knife, it was very basic and made from stuff in the garage and gun room. Let's see your first knife, those are the ones that are always keepers.

Here's Nr 9 for my Grandaughter. Stainless and over sized iron wood .

My First Custom

Ron Rosenbaugh 4 3/8 inch fighter/hunter, 9 1/8 inches OAL, 1/8 inch thick, 1 3/8 inches wide ATS34 stainless steel. Hollow grind with 2000 grit satin finish, full tang construction, and file worked spine and butt. Beautiful reddish brown spiral cut buffalo horn handles, creamy white streaks, red liners, mosaic brass pins and lanyard hole. Reddish brown form fitted leather sheath.

http://www.rosenbaughknives.com/

Here are three big knives I have done. Three very different uses.

1095/wrought iron san mai bowie.


Big 5160 chopper with orange G10 scales:


Random damascus chef knife:

Here's a few of mine

A copy of a Loveless drop point hunter and a semi drop point hunter from Wayne Clay


Three from the late Paul Geortz. The bottom two are a skinner/caper pair he custom made for me from my drawings


A drop point and a folder from Doug MacDonald

PICS ONLY guys. If you want to BS, start a new thread. Thanks.

W.F. Winch, Ft. Pierce, Fla. Small hunter. 7 5/8" Rosewood
and 1095......

Mike E. Miller.

154CM and blue dyed box elder burl. 416 SS bolsters, pins. Tapered tang. 8.25".....

Jake Debaud.

1/4" thick 1095 sheepsfoot. 7 3/4" long. VERY beefy blade....

Bob Steele of Oklahoma.

Large hunter in L6 and spalted maple burl. 9 5/8" OAL:

A couple skinners I've finished recently.....


ATS-34, Black and White Ebony scales, brass hardware and a turned Elk antler lanyard keeper


ATS-34, Cocobolo scales, stainless hardware

Randall #26 Pathfinder.
This is a model #26 with a model #25 style handle.
8 3/8" OAL. 4" blade
O1 tool steel.

One of my very favorite knives:

Here's some customs I've owned.

Had a friend make this for my wife, using the jawbone of a bear she killed. Damascus steel blade too.

Same guy made this one for me. Stag handle, damascus blade.

Here's a Ruana 21A5 I recently sold....pretty cool local shop on it's 3rd generation of knifemakers. This one was made by Rudy, the guy who started the legacy.

This was my Grandpa's. Very old, but still very sharp.

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Here are my first 2 nice knives that I just got in a trade.
First is a Jerry Hendrix presentation iron wood with mass spine work.




Second is a Dervish Custom[John Gonzalaz] with presentation iron wood. This thing has a massive spine.

Got some help from another PM member to help me track this down by Larry Withrow.

Wow! Nice grab, Larry makes awesome blades and very reasonably priced too.

Aldo's 1095 / Top swedge
Clay quenched
Highly polished hamon
Genuine Musk ox horn scales
Black tang liners
Copper & Brass blended Mosaic PIns
Tight fitted tooled leather sheath
A beautiful ,comfortable knife that's scary sharp!!

So those handles are musk ox horn?man that is a really cool pattern in the handles.If you dont mindme asking how much did it cost ya or a value on it if you made it

Here is another one by Larry. Might be my favorite. This is my second knife, now I see why guys like them so much.

I wish I had the talent to make a knife like that! Bill Akers made it for me, I paid around $500 for it, keep in mind musk ox horn is quite expensive and a nice quality stock like this will cost around $200 alone. He's usually asking around $300 for knives with handles made of more common material.

Just got this nice Canadian belt knife by Alan Davis to go with my Akers above.

Guess I better get my new DT in here.

Randall #19 Bushmaster (that's right, I'm the BUSHmaster)

John Salley "Walker Combat" (He's dead. From Ohio)

Fat Man and Little Boy. Dale Howe Skinners. Boy's on the right, mine on the left:

Hi,

I Inherited a Ruana Bonner Montana about 8 years ago. I'm a whitetail hunter in VA and have used this knife quite a bit but it's a bit robust for my purpose. So I googled this knife and had no idea of it's value and heritage. Shame on me for using it... I believe my father purchased it for a blackpowder ram hunt out west sometime in the late '60s to '70s (a guess at best on the timeframe). I thought I would share some pics of it here with the true knife aficionados.

I would be interested in any comments regarding it. It appears to be very much like the 20B with a few differences. Most notably to me is the thumbnail groove on each side of the blade. The sheath and markings on the blade to not have any notable marking to help define the time period it was made but I believe it was made by Rudy Ruana as it dates before he quit making knives in '83.

Eric

Very cool Eric.

Here is another older Ruana(M series) skinner I picked up from a guy in Montana:

A.G. Russell San Mai drop point in elk stag/VG-10:

Very nice, I like it!

3 from David Winston

Rick Menefee

Badley pattern

Firesteel from 2MuchGun

Wayne Jarrett

Gene Ingram

The last one that I made

I picked up this 'Ron Goulas' blade about five years ago; as my buddy in Louisiana is just crazy about this makers skinning knives; maybe I'll use it this season; if given the opportunity

A Howe Mtn. boot knife in yellow G-10 and S30V and a Backwoods Custom in box elder burl and 1095:

My dad is a custom knife maker so I've been spoiled. Here are a few of my using knives-
Top: cross cut sawblade (L6) with duracoat finish and ash handle
Middle: D2 blade, purpleheart handles with gold lip pearl
Bottom: ATS-34 with ebony handle and mosaic inserts

Here's my 60 year old Ruana

Here is a skinner I finished this week. It is a full-tang 440c piece with Redwood burl handles, black liners, stainless mosaics and, of course, a short, braided lanyard with an Amboyna burl keeper.

It's 8" overall with a 3 1/2" blade.

I like that Brian! Very well put together. I could skin a deer with that and not feel bad at all.

LINKS or websites for these knive makers?

Google is your friend...

Delightfully 'correct' Sir and on all counts! Right down to the parachord.

K

Randall #26 stag/O-1:

Bark River Gunny in A2/G-10:



Really a "semi-production" knife, but I like it a lot, so what the heck................

Jim Behring Sr./Treeman knives---Trout and deer in crown stag/O-1 steel made from an old Studebaker leaf spring:

Couple Menefee Made

boner



3 finger skinner

Some 0-1 Goodeness

Very Goode
Thanks

I have built knives for years,got out of it for a bit,.Looking at the first ones,beautiful,mite have to get back in.Got all the tools and supplies.ajust ambiyion,other interests,maybe to many.Thanks for posting

I have built knives for years,got out of it for a bit,.Looking at the first ones,beautiful,mite have to get back in.Got all the tools and supplies.ajust ambision and other interests,maybe to many.Thanks for posting

Those Treeman's are growing on me. I'm about to go for one. Grizz

I made these a few years ago, from pre-formed ss blanks.

Could we have a little info on scale material and steel?

They are all stainless steel, top one is a high valadium Spanish (unknown#), and the others are 440C.
More info here..
The scales are dymondwood, cause I like how easy it is to work up a smooth shiny surface..

CAUTION: Need ventilation & to wear a respirator when sanding dymondwood, dust will stay in lungs, it is deadly!!

A Valentine's Day present from my wife. It was hand crafted by our local pharmacist.

Wow you guys do some awesome work! I'm trying to get in to the knife making world but decided to start with handles... A lot of work without the right tools! Can't imagine making the blades! But then again I can't wait to try it!

A few from my collection....

Jerome Anders


Al Pendray


Jim Sornberger


Frank Centofante


Pat Crawford

Brian Goode,
I really like that LOYS knife. That is a really useful pattern... Are you taking orders?

You can email me. Most guys get an order because we keep in touch about work load. My email is on my website.

Here is another that turned out really nice.

That ebony scaled skinner is awsome! Is it spoken for ?

great looking knives! where did you get your logo etching supplies?

Hey these are some pretty legit knives. I have a few myself.

Dang those are some sweet looking knives

You guys are some good craftsmen . . . I'm almost afraid to post pictures of what I've made.

This thread needs some Fiddleback love!

D. Rhea custom; by far my best all round.

Brad Watkins custom

Dont guess I ever put these on here:

First a Jim Rubley Riflemans knife from the Revolutionary war period. Jim made the file and then made the knife....



This is another Rubley knife but made more primitively. I asked for it to be more of a back country blacksmith kind of knife and it is... Again he made the file and then the knife but all the finish work shows the carbon and is much more rough then the previous knife. I really love this knife.



This is a slightly larger and heavier built knife, made by Paul Berry in Texas from a truck spring this is typical of many local built Bowie style knives of the period. Its a beast but pleasant in the hand and well appointed by Paul for me.



This is my every day favorite. Crafted by KY Master blacksmith Joe Kiesler it is made from a file. That bright spot in the picture is a quarter so you get the idea of size. Joe did not loose the temper on this metal as I can make a very light touch up and shave with this little beast......



Hope you enjoyed my knives. As you can see I am a bit old fashioned in my knife stuff...... I love good forge work.

Made this for my Dad on his 80th birthday (RIP).
SS blade blank & guard, dymonwood scales & base.
He taught me to shoot with 22 lr bolt, hunt with a 20 ga single shot, and never leave home withouth a pocket knife !!
He was of the great generation, WWII Ranger 2nd Btl D Co, first engaged the enemy at Castle hill (Hill 400).

Thanks K.
He kept this knife centered at eye level just above his desk.
He didn't use it for anything (could of) just enjoyed looking at it.
It was there until he passed, at 95, and he had a very long rewarding life.

Is that a W.A. Surls?

Fiddleback Forge Handyman

Surls and Fiddlebacks are pretty similar.You were close!

I'm gonna pick up a Surls Arowana someday.

Those are pretty sweet for a large blade. I'd like to handle one sometime.

I see it as a game/meat processing and kitchen duty blade. The 1/8" full flat grind should be a slicing machine!

Some elk handles



The one on the far right is made of an alloy called Stellite. I don't think you can find a more durable metal for a blade.

That is a very nice piece of work. I’m sure it put a smile on your father’s face.

Thanks CallingArkansas.

Spent the better part of a hour looking at this thread. Great looking knives guys!!

Nice

Nice

Nice

This one is from Gaétan Beauchamp that I purchased about 17 years ago. The scales are fossilized walrus tusk. My wife wasn't to happy at the time that I spent $400 on the knife. She would stroke out to see what they cost now.

Jim

Very nice looking knife...