Delivering a knife

[VonGruff]

A Hunter skiner with Jarrah on the stone washed 1084 blade in simple pouch sheath

[Dave]

A few more knives away today. A K-tip Chef set with "spilled milk" acrylic on the cryo quenched NitroV SS. Plus a Field boning knife with acacia on the 1084 blade.
A Tahr hunter with English oak over CB buffalo horn on the 1075 blade with spine jimping in the closed top sheath.
A and a pair away to one of the shops who carry my knives. A Chamois hunter with Tasmainian blackwood over CB buffalo horn on the 1084 blade in the closed top sheath and a 4x4 hunter with Pheasant wood over FB buffalo horn on the 1084 blade in the deep pouch sheath.

    

very nice! would love all of these haha.

[VonGruff]

There are 3 Mini Skiners and 4 Chamois Hunters in this lot ready to head off to Oregon, with the majority having acacia handles on the 1084 blades with two having spalted Hackberry handles.

[VonGruff]

These two ready to head off on mondays courier. A Fisherman with blue/gold Karelian Birch on the NitroV stainless blade and a Hunter Skinner with Jarah on the 1084 blade.

[bronx]

These two ready to head off on mondays courier. A Fisherman with blue/gold Karelian Birch on the NitroV stainless blade and a Hunter Skinner with Jarah on the 1084 blade.

 Very nice.
I can't recall if I've asked - do the majority of your knives head off overseas to the States?

[VonGruff]

These two ready to head off on mondays courier. A Fisherman with blue/gold Karelian Birch on the NitroV stainless blade and a Hunter Skinner with Jarah on the 1084 blade.

 Very nice.

I can't recall if I've asked - do the majority of your knives head off overseas to the States?

It used to be about 95% that went offshore but lately there have been many more domestic orders. I am getting this lot ready to go to a shop in Murchison. The owner is a good friend who used to have a shop here in Lawrence and carried my knives but moved up there to be with her man. She has just got her new shop up and running so about the end of the month I will put  these knives and a couple of others I have on hand on the bike and ride up there with them. 

[VonGruff]

These two finished and away to new homes. The Dogman Bowie with multi pin walnut scales over long guard brass bolster on the stone washed 4.5mm 1084 blade in simple sheath. The knife has a multi snake knot lanyard with bright alloy rings and a chocolate brown bead and paracord.
The Professional Hunter with Maple burl over flat back brass bolster on the 4.3mm 1075 blade in plain pouch sheath.

[VonGruff]

Just home from delivering (on consignment) to new outlet in Murchison. Excellent ride with the bike performing extremely well over the 1500km done in two days .
A pair of general purpose kitchen knives (one with tortoise shell and the other with pebble garden [ acrylics] ) 1095 carbon steel
A Kitchen butcher and a boning knife both with acacia on the stone washed 1084 carbon steel.
A His 'N' Hers steak knife set with Maple burl on the NitroV SS blades.
A pair of 951 Belt knives with one having scalloped OD micarta over blaze liners and the other having fiddle back maple over micarta bolster on 1084 carbon steel blades (thumb and finger jimping)
A pig sticker with black micarta over blue liners and brass bolster on the 1075 carbon steel blade.
A pair of Wapiti knives with one having English oak and the other having cypres over micarta bolster on the 1075 carbon steel blades.
A general purpose (field) knife with acacia on the carbon steel blade.
A Professional Hunter with OD canvas micarta over natural canvas bolster on the 1075 blade and another Professional Hunter with sunburst Karelian birch on the 1075 carbon steel blade and a Tahr Hunter with spalted Karelian birch on the 1075 carbon steel with all 3 having closed top sheaths.
    

    

[VonGruff]

This one donated to the annual auction at the Kansas City chapter of Safari Club International .
A Professional Hunter with Arizona Desert Ironwood over a curve backed Buffalo Horn bolster on the 3/16 1075 blade in a closed top sheath.

[VonGruff]

A Light Hunter with acacia over the 1084 blade having an inch of jimping with blaze orange snake knot lanyard in deep pouch sheath.

[Spanners39]

Da Fuq is "Jimping" ????

[VonGruff]

Da Fuq is "Jimping" ????

jimping  is the gripper grooves across the blade spine. In this pic of the 951 blade I do heavy jimping with a 3/32 file  for the thumb and on the nose of the blade (that is up front) I do finer grooves with a 15 lines per inch checkering file. Some think they need the extra grip and in the case of the nose jimping on this blade it may well come into play when holding the blade with forefinger on that part of the blade for caping work where an animals head skin is carefully taken off for a shoulder skin for the taxidermist to do a mount with. I prefer one of my field scalpels but this is just one of the options on offer for those that feel the need for them.

[VonGruff]

A Heavy Hunter away to go on safari next month for elephant tail. Aged Giraffe bone over cb buffalo horn bolster on the 1075 blade in closed top sheath with attached honing steel.

[VonGruff]

A Mini Skiner away to a NZ customer to be forwarded on to a family member in Czechia so that is another country added to those where my knives have found new homes. maple burl with a little spalting over the CB Buffalo horn bolster and in an open top sheath. Initials on the sheath and name engraved on the blade.

[Spanners39]

Handy little weapon, they may need it if Vlad loses his shit.

[VonGruff]

Handy little weapon, they may need it if Vlad loses his shit.

Just a cutter/skinner but I do and have made a few fighters and other weapon like pieces.

[VonGruff]

An EDC with aged giraffe bone over curve buffalo horn with stainless and black G10 spacers on the x pattern stainless damascus. A snake knot lanyard with silver rings and white bead will assist in retrieval from the edge stamped deep pouch sheath.

[VonGruff]

Handy little weapon, they may need it if Vlad loses his shit.

Just a cutter/skinner but I do and have made a few fighters and other weapon like pieces.

This is a few I have made that would serve the purpose you mentioned and or recognised designs that have actually been for that purpose in times past.

A harpoon fighter


A bowie


13th century Templar nights dagger (forged)


A Pesrian fighter (forged)


WW2 Fairbairn Sykes Commando dagger


a 6th century seax


Wakizashi


Hunting sword


US military K-bar

[VonGruff]

Some knives for a local customer with the handles from an old Totora verandah post he had. I cut, oven dried, vacuumed them in resin then pressure forced the intake before baking to cure the resin making for a handle that is not effected by varying atmospheric conditions. There is a pair of 9 inch pro chefs, a pair of 8 inch filleters, a pig sticker, Tahr hunter and a Chamois knife. There is an order for a further 5 knives for him so I expect he is getting them all for family members.

[bronx]

Handy little weapon, they may need it if Vlad loses his shit.

Just a cutter/skinner but I do and have made a few fighters and other weapon like pieces.

This is a few I have made that would serve the purpose you mentioned and or recognised designs that have actually been for that purpose in times past.

A harpoon fighter


A bowie


13th century Templar nights dagger (forged)


A Pesrian fighter (forged)


WW2 Fairbairn Sykes Commando dagger


a 6th century seax


Wakizashi


Hunting sword


US military K-bar

Really liking these ones

[VonGruff]

A $1000 worth of wood I bought dec and jan finally turned up today. Some stunning pieces with 
Red and Yellow Cedar burl


Amboyna burl


Special broken fiddle back Tasmanian Blackwood.


and some spectacular book matched scale sets of spalted Hackberry. Today I got 2 other preordered scale sets that came with these on knives that I will finish up this week.

 

[VonGruff]

The first of the knives with the new batch of spalted Hackberry away today. I love the way the colours and patterns remind me of the old time maps and globes. A Professional Hunter with the spalted Hackberry over curve backed buffalo horn on the 3/16 1075 HC blade and carried in the initialled and border stamped cross draw sheath

[VonGruff]

The second Professional Hunter with spalted Hackberry over curve backed buffalo horn in a plain pocket pouch sheath is on its way to a new home.

[bigred]

Some great work here @VonGruff

[VonGruff]

A 1075 J T Ranger with scalloped OD canvas micarta in cross draw sheath
and a 1084 Light Hunter with Totora handle and blaze snake knot lanyard in plain sheath.