Knives & Sheaths

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

Howdy All

        I thought with all the popularity with knives and sheaths, that I would show a few of mine, but I'll do it one at a time, this is the first knife I ever made, and I really enjoyed making it, I then made a sheath for it and tried to make it as antique as I could.

       I'll be showing more as time goes by, most of these were made a few years ago when I first got interested in leather.

                    Thanks for taking a look

                             Regards

                         tEN wOLVES 

[Arizona Cattleman]

TW, that knife is your first?  Wow, the polish on the blade is fantastic, goes great with the handle.  Boy, whish I had that talent.\

 

Arizona Cattleman

[Kid Terico]

TW now I know why I dont make knifes. Nice job. Hard to believe its your first its so good. KT

[Gun Butcher]

 TW, once again I am amazed at all the things this bunch has in common. That is truly a great job on th knife and the sheath. Looking forward to seeing some of the others.
I have always been partial to that style.

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

Thanks every one, I wish I could take credit for actually forging the blade, but it was one of the blades you can buy, and then you put what ever scales you want for a handle, it has to be pinned and epoxied then you have to do your shaping, you can buy the scales in a variety of materials, and they come in pieces of 3/8"x1 1/2" x5", you can also get different sized pins, so you can create your own style knife, Crazy Crows has a number of different style blades to choose from, and these knives don't cost an arm and a leg, but you end up with a pretty nice knife when through. It makes doing this much easier if you have the power tools to work with, I use an oscillating spinal sander and belt and dick sander combination, and a good power buffer to polish it all up when done. Here's some pictures, the first one is my sanding bench, and the one at the end with the targets above is my buffing station, I used my band saw to cut the pattern out on the scales, and my drill press to tap the holes, so you can see you need the tools to do the job, but once you have them they will usually last a life time, some of the tools I use now belonged to my Dad, I take good care of them and they serve me well, when you have the tools the possibilities are endless. In my lifetime tools have been some of the better investments that I've made with my money, they pay dividends over and over.      

                         Thanks for all your comments, it's much appreciated

                                          Regards

                                     tEN wOLVES   

[GunClick Rick]

That's a right purty knife and a nice shop too T Dubya The only time i get to use my shop(garage) is when my wife wrecks her car every two years

[Dave Cole]

Looks nice TW. Certainly nothing wrong with buying the blade, takes skills to do the handle and sheath as well.I started that way about 20 years ago and after a year I was making my own blades.Dave

[Johnny McCrae]

Howdy TW,

Beautiful Knife and sheath! Can't believe this was your first knife. Many thanks for sharing this with us.

[santee]

Congrats...they look terrific!

[Josh Dabney]

TenWolves,

Thats fine work indeed !  There are many pitfalls that can still occur when building a kit knife but it sure looks like you avoided those,  Great work.

I too got my start building "kit" knives but the knifemaking addiction soon takes over logic and the pocketbook, LOL.

Boy thats about the cleanest shop I've ever seen Pard.  I'd be ashamed to show pics of my tools all covered in steel dust.

Great work though, now let's see the rest of'em

-Josh