Mushroom foraging knives and a woodsman/bushcraft style knife.

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FloWolF

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First knives I've made, and full of flaws I know, but here goes:

https://imgur.com/unkJroO

https://imgur.com/xGNXVzZ

https://imgur.com/xGNXVzZ

https://imgur.com/5POoF0U

https://imgur.com/veC1MSE

https://imgur.com/ynMTTH5

https://imgur.com/mwWsxLp

https://imgur.com/AHN408A


(Stock removal, 2.5mm 12c27m, foraging knives are ~56 HRC, 'woodsman' at ~57+, resin castings of fungi for the handles are my doing too, wood (mostly) is cherry seasoned for donkey's years then for about 5 more or so in my shed, oiled with raw tung oil.)

Got a way to go from here, but thanks in part to some excellent tips from here, I'm at least underway.

I'm sure you folks can be both honest and gentle, as I'm already awestruck by the excellence of the work I see here and even at 50 y/o, it still rattles my balls a little bit just posting links to the darned pictures here, heheheh.

Cheers, and enjoy your weekends,

',;~}~

Shaun/FloWolF,

(Lancashire, England.)
 
Nice! They look very comfortable and have a woodsy-hand made charm to them that makes them very cool looking.
That's not to say the grinds and fitment doesn't look straight. All of that looks good too :thumbsup:
I'm no knife maker, just a collector and knife user, but these look very good for the first set of knives you've made.
 
Here's the direct links. Beautiful knives!

unkJroO.jpg


xGNXVzZ.jpg


5POoF0U.jpg


veC1MSE.jpg


ynMTTH5.jpg


mwWsxLp.jpg


AHN408A.jpg
 
Wow, thanks folks - I was braced for a little roughness perhaps, but I wasn't expecting that so now here I am with no wind in my sails heheheh.

I cut all the bevels by hand on a filing jig I lashed up out of old pine tongue and groove floorboard (then later another made from flat oak pieces with better setup, to finish off the straight blades), and I have atrocious filing skills and habbits, so it was rough and slow going and I haven't been really confident in the results.

Having said that, all those knives pictured are sold (before they were finished) and a few more of the mushroom ones besides and I haven't really advertised - the first knife I sent out and the guy I sent it to, started that ball rolling by sharing photos and praise.

Still got several blades left, and orders too all I need is more workshop time (I only get time here and there through the week) and to transcend the broke-arsed hobby tools I'm whipping to task, but at this pace I'm not going to be buying myself any new kit, but I may actually *kill* for a variable 2x72 belt sander/grinder - even rtying to do the handle shaping on a ~300 watt short (metric it's 50 x 686mm) belt hobby machine from Aldi is a 'grind', so I did a lot with rough carbide paper and different shaped sticks - I love having my hand on the work, but maybe I could do without it being for soooo long?..

Thanks again for the kind words - have a great Sunday.

',;~}~

Shaun/FloWolF
 
Currawong thanks for that, brilliant ',;~}~

The little line of copper rivets on the first knife - each set at 1cm apart, 9 off plus the top bolster pin = 100mm - customer asked me if I could put something on one side of it to help with scale for mushroom ID from his photographs and it came out quite well I guess.

That knife and the other 2 I made first were both handled in well seasoned cherry that had been slowly cooked for a week in raw tung oil, in small pieces so it fully saturated. The wood came out beautiful and this is how I wanted to treat any wood I used that I hadn't stabilised (with acrylic monomers/vacuum/pressure/heat), BUT, it makes it a nightmare to work with - it clogs saws and abrasives in just a few strokes and processing it was a nightmare, so I told folk I wasn't going to do that again and stuck to just giving it a good rubbing with tung after finishing.

One of the next up I got cut from the same sheet of steel is to be our new kitchen knife and that'll have stabilised, spalted hawthorn for the handle.

Can't wait to get on with them. Cheers again good people.


Shaun/FloWolF
 
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