Miles custom knives
I hand draw the pattern for each blade using no templates so each is unique from the beginning. I usually choose either D2 steel, or high carbon 1084 to 1095. When I use damascuss steel, I aquire that from well known makers. I do all the work myself of shaping, normalizing, hardening, tempering. I usually have a harder edge with softer back. I triple temper and I cryo treat all blades with dry ice and acetone. I often hammer copper and or brass into the steel during forging for decoration. I use a flex test and edge test. Edge test is brass rod swipe and get minimum 200 strokes, compare this to 20 to 50 strokes for normal factory blades. I hand draw designs for acid etching, and do the etching myself. I often provide a sheath for knives that require one. If not I sell them separate for $25. Handle material is usually Alaska materials I gather and handle myself, mammoth ivory, local wood burls or local rock like jade. I custom cast guards and pommels from own hand carved originals and molds. I do all my own stabilizing of handle material. |
Knife boot knife blank eagle theme
Knife blank blade curved utility
Custom blank knife blade. Utility possible boot or hidden knife. D2 stainless steel. 5.5 overall length 2.5 inch cutting edge. Owl face etch one side, flower on the other. Nice comfortable good curve lines. Handle is soft so holes for handle easy to drill blade finished hardened polished sharpened.
Dagger of fossil bone
Custom knife using 40,000 year old fossil bone for sheath and handle. Dagger shape sharp both sides. D2 stainless steel, flower them etched with copper centers. Light in weight. Handle fossil wolf rib bone sheath prehistoric bison bone. Mammoth ivory end caps on knife and sheath are pinned. I had in mind a renaissance dagger, for reenactment people. Sheath a work of art in itself with sterling silver lace, bronze leaf solder pinned on. Very sturdy and usable. Rockwell 60 blade.
Knife skinner willow handle
Knife dagger bear pommel
Knife blade blank- animal shape
Knife blank blade whale outline
Shaped in the outline of a whale. 1095 high carbon steel. Rockwell 59. Cutting edge 4 inches. Soft handle can be drilled. Copper whale eye, Flowers theme one side, ‘Alaska’ written on reverse side. Makes good utility knife. Thin steel, light in weight. No guard suggested. Somewhat high skill level to shape handle to blade.
smaall skinner D2 steel
Small skinner 1095 steel eagle etch
Small skinner D2 blank blade with chickadee
6 inch overall 3 inch cutting edge, 1.5 wide. Rockwell 60. D2 steel is a semi stainless, with chrome, which makes it a tough tool steel known for keeping an edge. Double tempered, softer back and deep cold cryo treated. Handle soft so easy to drill holes to suit. Shined sharp ready to use.
D2 blank kitchen knife flower theme
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D2 blank hid tang skinner walrus theme
Knife boot knife blank eagle theme
Dagger of fossil bone
Custom knife using 40,000 year old fossil bone for sheath and handle. Dagger shape sharp both sides. D2 stainless steel, flower them etched with copper centers. Light in weight. Handle fossil wolf rib bone sheath prehistoric bison bone. Mammoth ivory end caps on knife and sheath are pinned. I had in mind a renaissance dagger, for reenactment people. Sheath a work of art in itself with sterling silver lace, bronze leaf solder pinned on. Very sturdy and usable. Rockwell 60 blade.
Knife skinner willow handle
Knife dagger bear pommel
Custom fossil knife with sheath
Custom skinner knife mammoth ivory sheath
Knife owl fossil theme
Hunter skinner knife D2 steel
Knife sheath
small skinner fossil handle
Small skinning knife D2 tool steel. Overall 7 inches, 2.5 x 3/4 blade. Custom acid etched with
Alaska' and a wolf head on one side, wolf tracks on the other side. Handle is interior Alaska fossil ancient horse rib bone about 60,000 years old. Guard and end cap are fossil mammoth ivory. End cap has pinned bronze bear. Very unique knife. Fits well in hand. Blade could be smaller then some like but makes knife compact for carrying concealed. Blade double tempered, deep cold cryo treated, a semi stainless so should not easily rust or lose visibility of etch.
drop point skinner damascus mammoth tooth
Nice Damascus steel drop point, 3 inch long blade x 2 x 1/16th. Back edge of drop is sharp to save for special needs. Moose etch one side, flower other side. Very unique mammoth tooth handle with tooth cut at an angle not seen often. Copper rivets. Nice sheath with mammoth etch.