With all this cold weather recently I have been able to dedicate a little time to make some knives for friends and family (plus a couple for myself for a change). I'm not a professional by any definition but I am finally getting to the point where I don't have to spend hours upon hours fixing mistakes.

Here are a few 1095 paring knives that have been rough ground but not yet heat treated. The one on the bottom was a failed experiment where I tried to grind before heat treat which wasn't a good idea given the thin stock.


Here are a couple pictures of a 5" prototype steak//utility knife and a 8"Chef knife with the scales epoxied on and no grinding/shaping done. The handles on both are snake wood which is tough as hell and really cool looking once you finish it.




Here is one of the finished paring knives made from 1095 with a mesquite scales. I have been playing around with creating hamons(cool wavy line in the steel caused by differential heat treatment) but it wasn't as pronounced as I would like... oh well it still made a nice gift.


Here are a couple chefs knives along side the paring knife. The top one is made from AEB-L stainless steel and snake wood scales. My personal favorite is the middle one it was made out of 52100 steel and is going to be one of my personal knives. I did a sort of Scandi grind on it and took the edge down to next to nothing as a result it could easily slice paper before I sharpened it. The scales on it are desert ironwood.



Finally here is the finished 5"steak/utility knife along with another stainless steel chef knife.



I am finally getting to the point where I'm happy with how the handles are fitting in my hand...it only took a couple of holiday seasons. I'm also working on moving my grinders into an air conditioned space so I can actually work on knives in the summertime.