Seeing as I have no work, knifemaker and good friend Dave Ricke decided to put me to work and make a few knives. Dave is a new sponsor, please check out his work.

Basically I stopped at his shop to bs & he hands me a piece of steel & says make a knife        :eek:         Oh oh, my new name is knifewrecker!

I`ll post some random pics of his shop & my attempts at making something that is Ricke shop worthy.

A few shop pics.

Finishing room

I look forward to seeing your project.

OOOO! I like the Ricke Knives I saw last year at the PBS thing in WI. He was set up in the booth next to my wife and I. Not a bad bow maker either.  I will watch this one.

CTT

Heat treating oven.


 

Scary high speed buffing wheel.

Some random pics of Daves knives that hang in the shop.

More knife pics.

Down to business, I dont have a lot of the rough stage, I did most of the drudgery of cutting & grinding so no pics. Here is Dave fixing one of my blade grinding screw ups, so you know I did some work    



My skinner being sanded, more drudgery. I cant screw that up, I hope.

My buffalo horn scales, added some super glue for stabilizing.



Laying things out with red liners.

Glue up and ready to grind & sand. We used stainless pins & laynyard hole.

Some blades Dave had me cut & grind for practice.

One of Dave`s knives ready for etching. The scales are a special dying process cow bone he does, the pics dont do it justice. It was sooo cool.

Some handle pics after I shaped & did some sanding, you can start to see why I love this horn material.

Wow!  A great looking knife!  And you have a great friend and a well equiped shop to work in too!

Steve
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Potomac Forge
ABS Apprentice

Great thread!! Your knife is looking good and I think I just slobbered on my key board over his work shop!  

My other blade is the one on the left after heat treating.



After the guard is soldered on. The scales I think will be the ebony in the pic. I wanted the bufalo horn again, but my piece is not big enough.

Dave showing me how to sand the guard.

Brian,

You sure know how to make a guy jealous.      

     

A few almost done pics. We will make the sheath Monday I hope. I will take some pics if we do.