I'm not sure that price enters into things for this one. Nor any other so far, as I've not sold a knife so far. Does anyone else here find it difficult to part with a knife you've just made? Anyway, prices listed on websites seem to vary rather wildly. It's hard to guess where to place what I've been fiddling with. If I were to charge based on my normal hourly rate - $50/hour for repairs to instruments - the prices might well get higher than anyone would want to pay. Tend to fuss and tinker until I'm happy with a thing, which considering I'm not really tooled up for metalwork means a lot of hand labour. Not very efficient. I'll think about that part. Maybe you could pm me and we could discuss that off the record?
I've a few other pictures. This long dagger I posted elsewhere here, in the 'serious fighter' thread though now I'm not so sure that was right. I'm working on a different pommel solution for this as the big orb of bronze seems rather too heavy, in feel and in looks. A thin wafer of rounded over micarta and then a finial type steel point are coming together... but won't be sure about that 'til it's done. The handle is narwhal tooth, something a friend gave me long ago and I recently turned for this. The blade is the 'serious dagger' model from knifekits.com though I modified the profile a little (didn't like the swell near the front) and carved away the rear of the grind into something a lot more graceful. Don't much like stress risers. Modded the shape of the hidden tang a lot for the same reason. The sheath is kydex, kind of a snug fit, with thin dark red leather glued and sewed over it. There's a vertical carry belt loop integral to the kydex, but I've added a swiveling belt loop for more practical carry angles. It can ride at any angle, won't fall out upside-down, with the bolt running into a steel plate brazed to a nut inside the original belt loop.
Then there's this little damascus dagger bought from an eBay seller called Two Finger Knives. Re-shaped that a bit too, as it was slightly more pointy than I liked, too delicate. The handle is ebony with silver wafers at each end, the guard carved brass and the pommel silicon bronze.
And I bought a fairly common type boot dagger blade from a local guy, made a micarta handle for it and pinned that with bamboo.
There's a tiny keychain karambit I made out of another old file. Gave this one to my little brother for his last birthday. A lot of carving on this one leaving the blade quite thin, maybe 1.5mm near the spine. I was thinking during this one it'd be nice to be able to forge something like this rather than carve it. Thinking it more with this bamboo one. I wonder if the guy at damascususa.com is considering such stuff? I'd be happy to work something out for him to use one of my carvings. Then again, the appeal might not go too far and I'm sure his costs on making a die set are fairly steep.
I've made a couple of others but not really worth showing.
