Knife making continues.

[BuildsByBaz]

Spent my weekend on these two.

Hunter - five and a half inch blade. Black butt handle. Brass highlights.

General Purpose knife - (GP) /personal carry knife. Hammered finish spine and ricasso. Ancient eucalypt/box handle. 3,1/4 inch blade.

 

[Dirtdives2424]

I think it is time for you to try out for "Forged in Fire". It's on the History Chanel. W/ your work, you could be a contender.......10k in cash would help the Ironman suit...don't you think?

 

[SI3RRA 117]

Should be on tonight. My wife hates Tuesday's because if it

 

[BuildsByBaz]

I think it is time for you to try out for "Forged in Fire". It's on the History Chanel. W/ your work, you could be a contender.......10k in cash would help the Ironman suit...don't you think?

Except the suit is finished.

Moving on with the next project.....

 

[BuildsByBaz]

And another finished today. No idea what the wood is....but it's pretty.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

A few pouches. Leather work is not something I really like, but I can't send razor sharp knives to people without something to protect them.

Changing/evolving my style a bit more. Going for five and a half inch hunters now. Liking this.

Four hunters.

Found a couple of chunks of very old wood in a creek bed. This is how it turns out semi polished. The chunk on the ground is a diamond in the rough.

Bottom of a dead Banksia. Problem is, I don't know how long it's been dead for. Sanded and oiled a block to leave in the shed a few weeks and see if it warps or splits. Very pretty grain pattern. Might be good to stabilise.

 

[mkshane81]

Amazing!

 

[BuildsByBaz]

More blades to help with the next big project. I've already started it, but I'll reveal a bit later when I've got something to show. In the meantime, these little babies have been helping me to get materials.

The latest four I spent my entire weekend making. The short one is one of the last short ones I'll be making.

1075 carbon steel blade. Brass guard. Brass and G10 spacers. Brass highlights in natural features. Eucalyptus handle. 5,1/2 inch blade.

1075 carbon steel blade. Brass guard. Brass and G10 spacers. Brass highlights in natural features. Ancient blackbut stump handle. 5,1/2 inch blade.

1075 carbon steel blade. Brass guard. Brass and G10 spacers. Brass highlights in natural features. Very old creek driftwood handle. 5,1/2 inch blade.

1075 carbon steel blade. Brass guard. Brass and G10 spacers. Ancient Eucalyptus handle. 3,1/4 inch blade.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Just finished. Skinning knife. High carbon steel. Australian hardwoods, furnished with brass and G-10. Now available. Proceeds from this one go to the Viper project.

Two more done. I'm going to experiment with a mustard patina on one blade. The bottom one is blackbutt stump from West Aus. I need to fill the natural features with resin. The top one is ironwood.

 

[mkshane81]

Beautiful work Barry, absolutely amazing

-Matt

 

[BuildsByBaz]

^^^ Thanks Matt.

The experimental mustard patinas worked out beautifully! One as a random splotch pattern, several layers, the other as a faux hamon, three layers.

I had some fun forging out a Japanese kitchen knife for my wife for mothers day. This was a different style for me and under instruction from another talented knifemaker. Lots of fun!

I finally forged out the second half of a 300 layer Damascus billet I made a couple of years back, into a knife. I'm pretty excited about where this knife is leading me. Because of a big stuff up with the acid etch earlier, (wrong acid - lost a lot of metal)I had to reshape the blade style from a hunter to an exotic fighter style. New style, new materials, different processes and techniques. Stay tuned for this fine collectors piece, (I hope.)

 

[BuildsByBaz]

I didn't have the right sized brass stock to make the pommel on the back of the handle, so I melted down some scrap brass and old shell casings to make a golden poo cake. Damascus hunter progresses.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Damascus fighter finished. Three hundred layers. Brass fittings on Australian hardwood and deer antler. Pommel cast from recycled rifle ammunition. Now available.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Japanese Santoku kitchen knife.

Japanese Kwaiken

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Just finished. Carbon steel blade, Australian hardwood handle. Available.

 

[4zos]

cool knives!

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Just finished! Set of three, hammered finish, high-carbon kitchen knives. Teak handles with brass and G10 spacers.

Blade lengths are 205mm, 161mm and 134mm.

The teak is recycled bench tops from the Australian National University in Canberra. The reason teak is so valuable is for both for its elegance and its durability. Beyond its beauty, it also possesses some natural properties that other woods don't have. Google, "teak" to learn more. Amazing wood.

These three knives are the last ones to have my Baz stamp on them, so they will be collectors items one day. From now on, my blades will be stamped with the new stamp you see watermarked in the bottom right of the photo.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

I really like the idea of recycling bullet cases into something else. Yesterday I smelted a bucket of them down into two solid brass ingots, ready to machine flat and turn into knife guards.

Going to turn this lot into a couple of beautiful blades. Banksia on the right, eucalyptus burl on the left. These have been seasoning in my shed for years.

 

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[BuildsByBaz]

Experimenting with a leftover Damascus stub. Managed to forge it out without any delaminations into something useable. Handle from a dead branch of a Banksia I pruned a couple of years ago. Brass is recycled bullets cast into solid bar.