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Segmented walnut and ash Skinner knife scales

My son's birthday was last week. For this year's gift, I decided to make him a knife. On vacation a few weeks ago, I picked up a Damascus blade blank from Smoky Mountain Knife Works. The blank as purchased is in photo 5. I added some scales from some nice burly Eucalyptus that LJ ki7hy sent...

Recently used some of the Osage Orange wood I've been playing with and made a new grip for my Ruger GP-100 357. It's a one piece grip when finished that slides over the handle frame of the revolver. All the inside milling was done on the drill press with router bits. The outside shaping and...

Back in early December, my friend Dan and I talked about carving, and I pointed him at various Morakniv knives. Well, I had a few blades sitting here, and during my recovery from back surgery, I cut out some scales for one of them and made a knife for him. One side of the handle is apple from a...

Friday/Saturday project that was delivered today as a birthday gift. I used multiple materials: prefab knife blank with water buffalo horn and cocobolo "wood" scales accented with 1/4" mosaic pins. I also made a sheath after these pics were taken. Enjoy!

Isolating myself in the garage. The only power tools I used on this were a drill for the holes (I have an egg beater drill, but it needs a lot of work) and the laser to burn in my logo. I used a coping saw to cut it out and rasps. files and sandpaper to get it in it's final shape. It is...

Second video making the scales for a father/son knife with a custom mosaic pin and walnut from their family farm: (First video here: )

My original fascination with making something from wood started with a pocket knife and a stick when I was maybe 5 or 6yrs old. I used the knife to sharpen one end of the stick to a point and suddenly I had an arrow. From that time, I always had a small pocket knife with me. On a whim, I picked...

Nothing special here, the woods are black/white ebony, walnut, local mesquite, purple heart, and another mesquite. I had been wanting to try my hand at attaching wood to metal for some time and I had a stack of these stainless steel bottle decappers collecting dust. I figured it was a good...

Generally the most sales of any crafts occur in the lower price range. People want to buy something as a gift or whatever, they just don't want to pay a lot of money. This assortment shown above attempts to keep that price zone sweet spot full for my shelves at the gift shop. The coasters were...

Here are four sets of knife handles I've recently made. One blade was a gift to me and one will be used as a gift to another later this week. The other two were for practice. And I sure do need more practice!!! The blades are prefabricated and sold at the wood craft store. The woods used...

I made some new knife scales for a friend, using book matched pieces of Madagascar (black & white) ebony. Also cleaned up the blade and sharpened it well beyond what any reasonable use would require. Because I love wood, and I love sharp stuff, too. The scales are bookmatched, so the pattern...

I've made a bunch of these for the NAACP banquet each year. It's a bare bones type project for table centerpieces and they take care of the painting and decorating. When the committee came back for more the second year I asked what happened to the ones I made the year before and was told they...

So the next time you wear out an old table or circular saw blade, dont throw it away, make a knife blade! I just found a template online for a primitive skinning knife and size it properly for your blade. Then trace it onto blade and cut out. We used a torch for this one, but you can use a...

More knife handles-before and after shaping photos. I'm not a knife maker so I use prefabricated blades. This one was picked up at the local wood c r a f t store. I used leftover wood Gabon ebony and mesquite burl with whitetail deer antler to make the handles. They are held on with epoxy and...

Three small skinner knives I recently put handles on. The woods used from top to bottom are padauk, purpleheart and verawood. I made the pins out of brass tubing. And on the verawood knife I filled the pins with a turquoise/epoxy mix. I finished with a paste wax then buffed them out with a...

Two more knife scales made from Peruvian walnut, cherry and thin maple and walnut veneer strips. Really enjoying the shaping process and the finesse that these little buggers entail. Coated with 5 coats of Tru Oil, buffed on the buffing wheel with Tripoli compound, White diamond and a final coat...

For my sisters birthday in 2011 i made her this jewelry armoire. The armoire consists of 11 drawers, a top compartment, and two side compartments. The top 4 drawers, the upper compartment, and the sides are all lined in the teal cloth material. The remaining drawers are bare. There unit is...

Here is a knife and fire striker I crafted for a friend in exchange for leatherwork. I'll be delivering them to their new owner this weekend. I used mesquite burl for the handles finished in Danish oil. Enjoy! ....

Shaker style side table (my first one) Tiger Maple Finished with Shellac and french rub.