What is on the bench Monday?

After a few days off to recover from the Vegas trip, I got back to work since my next deadline is the ECCKS. The show is end of February so I have time to make several series of knives before then.

I have been making a lot of Minis in the later part of 2013 so I thought I would start by making a series of full size knives.

The East Coast Custom Knife Show will be held February 28th, March 1st and 2nd at the Westin Jersey City Newport. Check out the website for more info.

Shot Show report - Part 2

Here are more photos taken at the Hogue booth:

Shot Show report

We spent a good part of last week in Las Vegas at the Shot Show and then at the Tactical Knife Invitational Saturday night. While the Shot Show is as humongous as always, we really spent most of our time hanging out at the Hogue booth. The whole line up was present including the new EX-F02 fixed blades and EX-F03 neck knives. They even had some of my custom axes on display and these received a lot of attention from customers as well. Here are some photos:

TKI Preview - Mini Tank Mokuti and Ivory

Lastly I made another Mini Tank for the show. This one has a Damasteel blade, Mokuti bolsters and bark ivory scales. The integral skull crusher/spacer and the clip are made of Mokuti as well.

TKI Preview - Damascus Battle Axes

I also made a couple of Damascus axes; one with cocobolo handle and one with ironwood handle. They both have really neat Paul Long leather sheaths.

TKI Preview - Hell Razor

Here is the finished photos of the sword I showed a couple weeks back when I was making it. I also made a leather scabbard for it.

TKI Preview - Mini Tank Black Mokuti and Zirconium

This Mini Tank has a Chad Nichols' Stellite core stainless Damascus blade, Zirconium bolsters and Black Mokuti scales. The clip is Mokuti and the skull crusher/spacer is Zirconium.

TKI Preview - Custom Cerberus

I used the handle of the Cerberus and combined it with a Scout blade on this one-of-a-kind model.

Damasteel blade and 3D machined Mokuti framelock are the materials for this stunning piece with a zirconium spacer.

TKI Preview - Persian Bowie

Damascus full tapered tang knife (Chad Nichols stainless Damascus) with sculpted mammoth ivory scales and zirconium guard.

The knife comes with a beautiful Paul Long leather sheath.

"What is on the bench" Monday

Lately I have been playing with patinas on various materials such as bronze, copper, titanium, etc...
Here is the end result on a Mini Tank Flipper with Bronze TextureTech bolsters and 3D machined G-10. I really like the green scaly "lizzard" look it gave the bolsters!

Tomorrow I should be done with my knives for the Tactical Knife Invitational and will start posting detailed photos of them here on the blog.

Tactical Knife Invitational WIP - Part 3

Working on the handle of the sword, grinding, sculpting, polishing and texturing the guard. I am now working on the sheath and will be posting finished detailed photos soon.

Tactical Knife Invitational WIP - Part 2

More progress being made on the sword and the axes.