Hey TW! Let's see your knives!

Question for the knife making folks...

Got any good recommendations for sources for good knife blanks? Myself and 3 friends have had some great adventures in the field together, and we're looking to make some commemorative knives for ourselves. We want to start working on handles for pre-forged and pre-ground blanks so all we have to do is make handles and pin/epoxy them. Eventually when we're good enough with hardwoods, micarta, etc., we have some special elk antlers that we want to use.

I've found some sites with blanks, but we're looking for practice blanks AND also the final quality blanks for the finished products.

 

What up stranger!

 

Nice. We rented a cabin in Glen Haven last summer and one in Drake this summer. We love Alaska as a vacation spot most, but CO is a great substitute. A short 12 hour drive from home! Lol.

 

Same shit man.

 

Bump. Anyone?

 

Got lots on eBay. Just get a good quality steel and stay away from the cheap overseas stuff. And for supplies, alpha knife supply is great.

 

some pics of a couple new knives: matching full sized and mini Marfione matrix-R with stonewashed DLC blade, CF scale and flamed backspacer and skullcrusher(serial #001 and 002) and full titanium Direware solo V4 recurve.

 

Good looking knives. Are they heavy?

 

Thanks!
The Marfione Matrix is a very very slim and light knife. The Direware solo is a tank. Very fat and heavy for a titanium knife.

9.8 oz for the Direware,
5.5 oz for the full sized matrix,
3.5 oz for the mini, which is a great EDC knife.

 

Interesting. I thought the titanium one would be lighter. Most of my titanium knives are light, but I can see that it is bulky, which might be the reason.

 

The Direware is an elegant brick.

It's a chunky motherfucker.

 

Well, the Matrix is a titanium frame lock too, but the other scale is carbon fiber which is way lighter than titanium.

Exactly! Imagine if it was stainless!

 

I just took a picture of my CRKT collection

 

Nice collection. I just bought the Hootenanny. But the first one they sent me had terrible side to side, and up and down blade play. I want to like CRKT knives but I swear I have either bad luck with them. Or they're quality control for fit and finish is terrible.

 

Not that it helps the sting but their warranty and customer service is amazing.

 

Is it really? Maybe I'll give them another chance. Most of their knives are pretty functional and use 8cr13mov. I actually don't mind budget steel at all because I can get them sharp super fast on my sharpmaker.

I took my Hootenanny back to the store and returned it. But next time I'll just contact CRKT I guess.

On a side note, Benchmade also has great customer service. I contacted them about my 940 and two different people wrote me back instantly.

 

Actually I confused myself. I was lumping CRKT in with Kershaw under the KAI umbrella.

So I don't actually know how their warranty is.

 

I've never had a problem with the CRKT's I've purchased so I've never had to use the warranty. But I have heard of others that have had issues that were immediately taken care of by warranty, over and above what was expected a lot of the time

 

A few knives i got for Christmas.





The black on black paramilitary 2 will be my next knife.

 

Got this for the wife for Christmas. Shun premier 9 piece set, and I added the nakiri and ultimate utility knife, and also the hinoki cutting board. San mai Damascus with VG-10 core, and stainless cladding. Beautiful knives.