Bushcraft Knife

I made this knife from O1 tool steel and canvas Micarta handles. The leather sheath is from JRE Industries and I made the second sheath from Kydex and it has a belt slot attached with aluminum Chicago screws.

Bushcraft Knife

Handle detail showing brass and copper mosaic pins

JRE Bushcraft sheath with Firesteel

Here is a knife I made this summer from O-1 flat ground tool steel. It measures 7.5" long overall, with a 3.5" blade. The blade has a 11 degree bevel grind on each side with a steeper micro-bevel at the very edge. The handle is purpleheart wood affixed with epoxy and brass and copper pins. The wood is finished with melted wax and then hand buffed.

Finally Finished

I have finally finished a project that I started somewhere around 1989 or 1990! I had designed some knife blades to be cut from a retired circular saw blade while I was in junior high. I somehow talked my metal shop teacher into letting me work on them before or after school if I didn't tell other students that I was making knives in school. Well.... I put most of the blades aside until recently, when I had my father look for them in their storage shed in Wyoming and bring them out to me in Milwaukee. I liked only a couple of the original designs and decided to clean up one of the rough blades and turned it into a camping / bushcraft knife.

The knife is ground with an edge that is about as flat as I could get, which still ends up being somewhat convex. The handle is polyurethane finished walnut that is attached with epoxy and hollow brass tubing for pins.

I have a new 'bushcraft' sheath from JRE that this knife will be carried in along with a firesteel for fire starting. I actually purchased this set-up from Ben's Backwoods a Michigan bussiness that sells camping and bushcraft supplies.