Polar Knife with Birch Bark Handle

I made this knife from a Polar blade from Finland and used birch bark to make the stacked handle. The front and back of the handle are sandwiched by 1/8 thick green canvas Micarta.

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.

Cell Phone Case

I made this case after seeing one similar on Leatherworker.net. I got the tooling design from Leatherwork Manual by Al Stohlman. The leather was from some of the tooling supplies my sister gave me that she bought from an estate sale. I estimate the leather and the tools I used to make this were purchased in the late 50's.

Swivel Knife Case

Here is a leather case that I made for an old swivel knife that I use.

Milwaukee Pabst Brewery

Here are a few selected photos that were taken with Kodak 400 CN film in my Nikon FM2 in the Spring of 2009. The property of the old Pabst Brewery is under current redevelopment and some buildings are currently for sale.

Logo on a roll door of the 'Shipping Center' building

View of 'Malt Elevator' from the west side next to the First German Methodist Church

View of the west side 'Bottling Building'

View from the north east of building 21(Mill House)

First Teeth

If you look close, you can see one of Eliza's two new bottom teeth

Neck Knife

Here is a knife made from 0.125" thick O-1 tool steel that was designed to be carried as a neck knife on a bead chain as pictured above or on a key ring. It measures 3" long and the blade is convex ground on one side only and has a 1.25" long cutting edge. The sheath is simple fold over Kydex sheath with holes drilled for neck or key ring carry.