These are two hunting knives I made in my
grandpa's stone carving shop while we were at my grandparent's house in southwest Missouri a couple months ago. Both knives are hollow-ground and made from 440-C surgical stainless steel. The wood on the knife to the left is pressure-treated cocobolo, and the one on the bottom right is pressure-treated oak. I used 1/4" mosaic pins and did vine pattern file-work on both knives. I also put 1/4" stainless steel tubing in the back of each knife. The sheaths are made from treated leather that I purchased at a
leather shop in Custer, South Dakota. I hand-stitched both of them and formed them to each knife after soaking the sheaths in water for 20-30 minutes. All the supplies for these knives including the blade blanks, wood, and pins, I purchased from
Jantz Supply in Oklahoma. My knifemaking teacher,
Tom McGinnis softened and hardened the blades for me at his shop in Ozark, MO.
These are two hunting knives I made in my grandpa's stone carving shop while we were at my grandparent's house in southwest Missouri a couple months ago. Both knives are hollow-ground and made from 440-C surgical stainless steel. The wood on the knife to the left is pressure-treated cocobolo, and the one on the bottom right is pressure-treated oak. I used 1/4" mosaic pins and did vine pattern file-work on both knives. I also put 1/4" stainless steel tubing in the back of each knife. The sheaths are made from treated leather that I purchased at a leather shop in Custer, South Dakota. I hand-stitched both of them and formed them to each knife after soaking the sheaths in water for 20-30 minutes. All the supplies for these knives including the blade blanks, wood, and pins, I purchased from Jantz Supply in Oklahoma. My knifemaking teacher, Tom McGinnis softened and hardened the blades for me at his shop in Ozark, MO. 
