Couple new projects (preview)

[elk ninja]

I have been busy lately... or maybe I have just had more time since I haven't been working.  Either way, here are a couple projects I am finishing up.
All three together:


Here is the Enzo Trapper.  Great knife!  I bought the kit, I was looking for a good all around knife that could take apart an elk or cut up some salami and cheese for lunch, make some kindling and spark a fire.  I think I found what I was looking for.  Scandi grind, comfortable in the hand, full tang, and I wanted birch for the handle.  I didn't take too many pictures of this as it was a kit with the scales already real close to perfect fit.  I did make the sheath and put together the fire steel (mule deer antler)
Red liners:


A little neck knife, sans sheath for the moment.  Black and white ebony.  Great stuff to work with by the way... This was a naked blade that I bought and put the slabs on.  I sharpened it into a nice sharp convex edge.



And this is my very first of it's kind.  Completely built this British bushcraft style from bar stock O1 steel.  Turned out real nice I think.  Couple small changes I might make next go- around, but sharp and well balanced.  Bubinga scales with homemade mosaic pins.  Scandi grind.  Homemade sheath that isn't one of my finer works, but it'll do.  A cocobolo tipped firesteel (still have to shape the 'steel a bit more though).  



Any comments, criticisms, etc welcome!

[skullworks]

Bravo!!!! They all look great! Really nice work!

[robtattoo]

Nicely executed work, on all 3!

[elk ninja]

Rob,
Here's a question for you, since you've made a bushie or two and live "over there."  Why do the pins look so cockeyed?  I don't notice it in the hand, but the pictures look like it has a lazy eye!
Mike

[Bobby Urban]

Very nice. - love the drop point blades.  

Bob Urban

[KHALVERSON]

i really like all 3
fine work you got there

[B M A]

Mike,
I like them all.  Very nice so far.  Since you are to busy send me the small one and I will make sure it get s finished and well taken care of.  
Oh, I will post pics when it is done..........
Brock

[el oso]

Nice work on all three.

[Kevin Evans]

Very Nice!!!  

[LEOPARD]

Very nice knives!  

[Jeremy]

Mike (and anyone else wondering),
when working with the mosaic pins it's very easy to overheat them on the grinder and soften the epoxy holding them together.  Then you'll get the wire edge and shavings made by the grinder getting pushed into the epoxy.  You either have to be careful on the grinder, or do the final work by hand.

Nice job on the knives!  

[elk ninja]

Jeremy is right there.... or you might melt the epoxy enough to have some of the pieces come loose.  But the "extra" there is because it has an aluminum tube and since it is a user and mine, I decided to just leave them be.  
Thanks for the tip Jeremy!
Mike

[Ray Hammond]

I keep a big bucket of water right under my grinder, and after every pass on the belt while shaping the handle, it goes in that water to keep those pins cool.