Thanks guys - I have enough guns to do a gun of the day too Lol!

Knife of the Day
 

Collection? More like arsenal! Lol


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OK, I've got the process down a lot better now, and cranked out a knife in a day.

It's a roach belly kitchen knife with a red oak handle. A traditional design...Before there were "chef's knives" there were roach belly kitchen knives...

https://i.imgur.com/XomWomw.jpg

http://www.cotep.org/forum/picture.p...&pictureid=888

I use a roachbelly as my go to kitchen knife. Its an awesome all purpose knife. One of my favorite designs

Okay, so I'll play.

Went to the gun show yesterday. Took a friend just to look around a pickup stuff. We each got a 1000 rounds of 5.56 and a 6 pack of 30 round Pmags, because why mama always asks... BECAUSE you can never have much I tell her. She knows better than to ask that question.:rolleyes:
Anyway I introduced my friend Bob to my friend Ed he owns Salish Knives...:D
Bob started looking around and I watched his eyes start to glaze over, Ed does some amazing work. I had asked him about making me a Damascus carving set about 6 months ago. Well he brought me a carving knife and a chefs chopper. Carver has a rose wood handle and the chopper is ebony with a copper hilt. The balance is perfect and you can shave with either one of them. Bob wanted the chopper, I said ok and Ed said if I liked the carver he will make me a matching fork. I can hardly wait.:D
https://i.imgur.com/7dfxlvTh.jpg?1

2 April 2019 Official Knife of the Day
 

William C. “Bill” Johnson, CMSGT, USAF, Retired Sub-Hilt Recurve, Mammoth Ivory scaled knife.

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...on_fighter.jpg

I think this is my favorite so far. I like that blade shape, and mammoth ivory scales are awesome.

http://www.cotep.org/forum/picture.p...&pictureid=888

That blade is crazy awesome

Yes it is!


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3 April 2019 Knife of the Day
 

Ed Kalfayan "Searles" Pattern Bowie. Chemically antiqued finish.

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...wie_sheath.jpg

4 April 2019 Knife of the Day
 

Mel Fassio fossil tusk, damascus blade fixed blade knife:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...ssio_knife.jpg

^^^^ I like !! :cool:

5 April 2019
 

The knife and three minis.

Randall Knives Guardian - double edged, designed deep undercover agents.

The minis are copies of the Guardian and the Gambler; and the knife maker, Don Hedrick, has been given license to name his minis with the same names that the Randall calls their knives.

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...s_Gamblers.jpg

Top to bottom: standard sized Randall Guardian; below it is a copy. The other two knives are are copies of a Gambler.

are those blade handles carbon fiber?

I believe that the black ones are canvas micarta; the white one is pre-ban ivory.

Damn nice blades!


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6 April 2019
 

Doug Alcorn small fixed blade knife with Fred Harrington engraved bolsters. Doug made the knife for the Wolverine Knife Collector's Club in Michigan; it was raffled off in one of the numerous raffles taking place at one of their shows at the Rock Financial Center in MI. I bought my "card" and lo and behold I won!

It's a nice knife - honey jigged bone scales, engraved bolsters, nice leather sheath...and not for sale!

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...ves/alcorn.jpg

7 April 2019
 

Jens ANSO "Pocket Scalpel". I chatted with Jens on FaceBook about this and another knife; he said that he had made this (and some others) from leftover Damascus from other knives he made. I'm glad he did!

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...et_scalpel.jpg

8 April 2019
 

From the genius behind the "Gentleman's Pocket Fixed Blade Knife; three of his knives.

From top to bottom: Apple Coral scales, Mammoth Ivory scales, and Mesquite wood scales...

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...h_mesquite.jpg

9 April 2019
 

“Stan McTiernan Hollywood Tanto”

This is a traditional design Tanto, handle and sheath are made from Holly Wood; in its natural color. Ends and spacers are buffalo horn. I believe the blade is Devin Thomas ladder pattern Damascus.


http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...iern_tanto.jpg

10 April 2019
 

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...7/levine_1.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...vine_stamp.jpg

Norm Levine, dagger. Norm was one of founding members of the Knife Maker's Guild.

that is a sweet boot poker!

11 April 2019
 

Charles Fowler stag handled knife with sheath by Sandy Morrissey!

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...fe_Charles.jpg

For those who don't know Sandy - he's finally retired from leather work; something he learned to do as physical therapy after he was cut out of an airplane that "landed" nose down at an Airfield in Arkansas during WWII.

Over the years he became an outstanding leather worker!

I think this is my favorite. I love stag/horn/ivory handles and that is just beautiful!

I sent that roach belly knife to my daughter, but I liked the design so much, I made another one out of D2 for myself. This one is a tad longer with a thicker spine. It's out for heat treating now, and I haven't taken any pictures yet.

I think a couple of Bowies will be next. One medium sized for myself, and a full size Jim Bowie design (18") for a friend that I promised to make decades ago but never got around to it.

http://www.cotep.org/forum/picture.p...&pictureid=888

you have lots of friends here too :p

12 April 2019 and 13 April 2019
 

12 April:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...lder_knife.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...ckle.sized.jpg

D'Alton Holder Belt Buckle Knife

13 April:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...nson_knife.jpg

Gordon Johnson 20th Anniversary of making knives knife!

The belt buckle knife is unique for sure!!
I really like that Gordon Johnson rig.

Amazing blades!


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14 April 2019 from Cancun, MX
 

Attended the Dallas Gun and Knife Show two years ago. Didn't sell any knives but I did buy something "Special".

Gene Baskett is a very good custom knife maker from Kentucky. Gene is one of the pioneers of knife makers who use 1911 Stocks for knife handles. I have two of those (one, numbered "5" is his 5th one made; the other, with VZ stocks.

Two years ago I saw a hatchet that Gene made; with a very interesting handle; when closed the handle is 9-1/2"; expanded, 28". Gene used a police expandable baton for a handle. When I looked at it in Dallas and we reached a mutual agreed upon price; now the hatchet lives with me in Texas. Here are a few photos of it:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al.../hatchet_1.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al.../hatchet_2.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...chet_5_001.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al.../hatchet_4.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al.../hatchet_3.jpg

And here are the bonus Knives of the Day from Gene; #5 and VZ scales:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...ett_sheath.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al..._vz_folded.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...t_vz_right.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...tt_vz_mark.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...z_filework.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...skett_pair.jpg

15/16 April 2019
 

A few new knives...

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al.../black_tie.jpg
Don Cowles "Black Tie" Gaboon Ebony, Alabama Damascus, 24kt gold pins, ruby...a nice knife

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...rven_mop_4.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...rven_mop_3.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...rven_mop_2.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...rven_mop_1.jpg

Jim Serven knife, with mother of pearl scales. I'll let the photos do the talking; sort of a trick locking knife; I've never seen this before - pull the knife handle apart, rotate the blade 180 degrees, push handles back together again.

17 and 18 April 2019
 

Internet access can be trying at times here in Cancun...a post I made early this am never made it!

17 April: Bobby Toole is an accomplished knife maker from Mississippi. He specializes in remaking old pattern knives with up to date materials. Here’s his Gentlemen’s or barehead jack knife, ATS-34 steel, Desert Ironwood scales:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...ms/toole_1.jpg

18 April:

Lee McDowell, Baxpd Axe, MI, miniature Damascus axe:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...w/axe_left.jpg

I dig the ax!

19 April 2019
 

Roger “Mudbone” Jones uses no power tools when he makes his knives. Here’s a fancy Scagel Style Damascus fixed blade knife. Here’s a miniature Scagel Style he made:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...ger_scagel.jpg

^^ "Mudbone" does beautiful work, that is one badass knife !!

glad to see someone making a nice thread

20 April 2019
 

Gene Loro sadly no longer with us, was in his late 70s when I first met him at a knife show in Cambridge, OH. He made some very nice fixed blades knives; hand forging his own Damascus. He was a neat old gentleman.

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...nives/loro.jpg

21/22 April 2019
 

21 April:

Ray Rybar Friction Folder Carved Antler neck knife:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al.../rybar_cap.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...rybar_face.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...rybar_left.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...ybar_right.jpg

22 April:

Coming home in 2015 from a a knife show in Cambridge, OH we stopped at an Antique Mall, in Harmony, OH called the Heart of Ohio. It is the largest Antique Mall in Ohio. I've been stopping at Antique Malls for about 12 years now; I've gotten a feel for glancing at a display case and finding the ones with knives. Although I didn't buy it (although I wanted to) one case had an original issued John EK WWII made knife.

I settled on this small knife, made by B. Wescott, who I can't find any information about online. A nice little custom:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...ott_sheath.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...cott_right.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...scott_left.jpg
http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...cott_knife.jpg

The handle on it is amazing along with that steel!


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23&24 April 2019
 

23 April: P. J. Tomes Scagel Style Bird and Trout Knife, Mini-Axe. I paid so little for this set that when I sold at Blade 2007 It paid for my entire trip including airfare, hotel, and rental car!

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...QBucY7VksmxlDX

24 April:

P J Times San Francisco Style dagger in Damascus and Silver studded walrus tusk:

http://iwantthatknife.com/Gallery/al...omes_right.jpg