Janusz "Yahoo" Bladowski Kitchen Knives

   Because I am going to make my first kitchen knife, I will show You some knives made by my friend knifemaker who is a specialist in making these. His name is Janusz Bladowski, known as Yahoo, and is well known for making the best kitchen knives in Poland. He helped me a lot when I started making my first knives and is stil helping me with heat treatment and material supply. I think that his works will be a great inspiration for my first kitchen knife.

Brontu Neck Knife

Another knife finished. This time it's a a neck knife. I hope you like it!

Steel: N690 (cryogenic heat treatment)
Blade thickness: 3 mm
Blade length: 4,5 cm
Overall length: 10,5 cm 
Handle material: Brown Canvas Micarta
Sheath material: Leather

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Hunter becoming a soldier.... CUSTOMIZATION

My colleague ask me to make a customization of a knife he gets from his father. The knife is about 30 years old and is a custom made by a yard worker. The blade is made of a propeller. A handle was too smal and uncomfortable because of edgy guard. There was also a very low in height convex grind so the knife was not able to cut easy. I wanted to make something more usable so I made a new handle from green canvas micarta and give the knife a scandi/bushcraft grind

Original knife...

After customization...

Orange Survival Set (Part 2)

I didn't forget about this one. Two years after first drawnings I have a large blade (already heat treated) and a small blade (ready for heat treating). Also a firesteel, Fallkliven DC3 sharpener, orange paracord, orange kydex... even an orange tread for sewing leather. What I don't have is some more free time ;)

Recreating a tsuba by Ford Hallam

One of the memebers of  Polish Guild of Knifemakers (I don't remember if I wrote that I am a member of that guild...) showed me a fantastic short film about making a tsuba for Katana sword by classical Japanese metal artist Ford Hallam. This guy is amazing! You have to watch it!
It's unbelievable what people can do using only the simplest tools and their talent...

PART I

  PART II

SCOUT Squirrel Friction Folder

   Finally I finished a knife from  "The Sons of the squirrel" series. A little friction folder with toxicated G10 and stonewashed titanium frames. Very light and pocket size.

Steel: N690 (cryogenic heat treatment)
Blade thickness: 3 mm
Blade length: 4,2 cm
Overall length: 12,2 cm 
Handle material: black-green G10, titanium
Locking mechanism: friction ;)

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La Biche Hunter

This is my first finished knife showed on the blog. For the first time I wasn't the one to make a sheath. It was made by Sławomir "Slawol" Woźny.

Steel: D2 Tool Steel (cryogenic heat treatment)
Blade thickness: 3,8 mm (tappered tang)
Blade length: 10 cm
Overall length: 22,2 cm 
Handle material: Black Linen Micarta, Arizona Desert Ironwood, brass mosaic pins
Sheath material: Leather



Pictures below was taken by Krzysztof Sawarzyński. Thanks bro!

Also a short clip to show how it looks in motion ;)

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Sex, sheaths and rock'n roll ;)

Recently I had the pleasure of working with some great people when making my new knife called La Biche Hunter. I don't want to show you the knife just yet but I will show you today what this two guys are able to make.

The first of them is Sławomir 'Slawol' Woźny, a sheathmaker. His works are combination of beautiful, simple form as well as utility and toughness. You can watch his works here. He is withoubt doubt one of the best sheathmekers in Poland. I like his work a lot, so I decided to ask him if he want to make a leather sheath for my next knife. Fortunatelly he agreed...

The second person is Krzysztof 'Ofaniel' Sawarzyński, a mountain lover and a photograph. A friend of Sławek who always makes photos of his leatherwork. The pictures of knives and sheaths he makes, are one of the best I have seen. Not to mention that he likes to take pictures of knives with beautiful women. Here you can see some great pictures he makes during hiking http://frihet.pl/gal/ 
  

Enough talking. Take a look at the photos showing fantastic shaeaths

 

NOTE: Any of these knives was made by me. Pictures belowe are showing only some examples of Sławek "Slawol" sheaths and Krzysztof "Ofaniel" photographic skills.

My titanium micro tools 2

   I made a whole set of titanium mini tools and bottle openers. Every piece is made of the toughtest 6al-4v titanium. The first one is 3,2mm(0.125in) thick. Lizard, Howrsis and CatFishes are 2mm(0,08in) thick. Those are 100% handmade, beadblasted, polished and anodized titanium. That is why every item is unique.

From today when I finish a knife or a tool I will write on the blog if it is available or not.

The first tool was made for someone... 
NOT AVAILABLE

Lizard. One of a kind. NOT AVAILABLE

Howrsi. I made four of them (one is with broken jaw ;) ) NOT AVAILABLE

CatFish. I made six of them. NOT AVAILABLE