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[Delasangre4231]

View attachment 2160060Finished yesterday at Cunningham Custom Shop: This Fighter is inspired by the Randall model 4 and I couldn't be happier with the finished product. Forged to shape out of 52100 round bar and measuring 6 3/4" from tip to guard with a razor sharp convex grind and forced patina. I forged the s-guard from 5160 and handled it with a gorgeous maple. Thanks for looking!

You make some sick knives! You ever do any Tanto?

 

[cunninghammer]

You make some sick knives! You ever do any Tanto?

I've made many over the years when I worked at Behring Made, but whomever orders a tanto from me will be getting the first Cunningham Custom Shop edition

 

[erslll]

My edc spyderco

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Nice! Not sure I have seen an M4 PM2. Not lately, at least.

 

[folieadeux1013]

View attachment 2150164Whole batch! 8/22/25

Those are some sexy knives.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Just the essential tools.

 

[titsonritz]

Old vs new

 

[SSloan]

440C hollow grind dagger I made 35 years ago. Coffin handle with nickel silver pins and green scales are actually pulverized Jade with a resin binder creating material very similar to natural jade. Sheath had integral snaps as a boot knife or could utilize ranger bands on any pack harness. Made for best friend, now in the Philippines, glad I did. He's obviously used it, good on him.

For my son's first elk hunt (celebratory gift), I made it 35 years ago as well. 440C hollow ground drop point blade. Nickel silver bolster, pins and thong hole. Scales are lapis lazuli. Sheath has water snake inlays.

 

[JeremyK]

440C hollow grind dagger I made 35 ago. Coffin handle with nIckel silver pins and green scales are actually pulverized Jade with a resin binder creating material very similar to natural jade. Sheath had integral snaps as a boot knife or could utilize ranger bands on any pack harness. Made for best friend, now in the Philippines, glad I did. He's obviously used it, good on him.

For my son's first elk hunt, I made it 35 years ago as well. 440C hollow ground drop point blade. Nickel silver bolster, pins and thong hole. Scales are lapis lazuli. Sheath has water snake inlays.

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The one with the green grips hits me in the "I wants". Beautiful work.

 

[SSloan]

The one with the green grips hits me in the "I wants". Beautiful work.

You have good taste, I think it was Paul Bosse (Strum, Ruger) ordered several blades with that material. As a plus, he (Ruger) agreed to provide free heat treating during his tenure. I was always told; you can't heat treat 440C, yet Ruger's process yielded another 1.3-1.5 points. And their Mohs scales were the good ones. Never shared that one, trade secret, you're the first. They cut nice.

 

[SSloan]

Now before you all laugh,
Since 2001 this knife (CRKT M16-14Z) has been in my front pocket every damn day. It's a T&E, (test & evaluation, early release)
I received late morning on 9/11. I used to be a hard use kinda guy. Blade is AUS8 (strop often/cuts like a razor). I know it and it has remained a preferred option, I kept it.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Now before you all laugh,
Since 2001 this knife (CRKT M16-14Z) has been in my front pocket every damn day. It's a T&E, (test & evaluation, early release)
I received late morning on 9/11. I used to be a hard use kinda guy. Blade is AUS8 (strop often/cuts like a razor). I know it and it has remained a preferred option, I kept it.

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That smooth handle material looks better than the extra scratchy stuff that I'm used to seeing on that family of folders.
Solid chunk of pocketknife right there.

 

[TNThomas]

Now before you all laugh,
Since 2001 this knife (CRKT M16-14Z) has been in my front pocket every damn day. It's a T&E, (test & evaluation, early release)
I received late morning on 9/11. I used to be a hard use kinda guy. Blade is AUS8 (strop often/cuts like a razor). I know it and it has remained a preferred option, I kept it.

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Similar here, I have carried this about 80% of the time since July 2008. Scratches are from hitting/scraping rocks while I got washed down a river in 2009. M16-13Z

 

[SSloan]

Similar here, I have carried this about 80% of the time since July 2008. Scratches are from hitting/scraping rocks while I got washed down a river in 2009. M16-13Z

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Good on ya, best tasting beers I ever had were with guys w/scars on their forearms & blades.

 

[Medic!]

Civil war Officers saber.

The tomahawk and Bowie are little art projects of mine
I lack the skill to truly make anything. But I can transform nearly anything.

You should see my physique. [ Not good ].

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Civil war Officers saber.

The tomahawk and Bowie are little art projects of mine
I lack the skill to truly make anything. But I can transform nearly anything.

You should see my physique. [ Not good ].

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All three are very nice.
Really like the tomahawk
Andy

 

[Medic!]

Thanks Andy.

Just a cold steel pipe hawk.

Welded up the hole for the lock nut and jimped. Reshaped, sanded, polished and blued the head.
Cut the handle down. Wire wrapped and burned it to get it a fiddle wood look. Then dyed it and hit it with BLO.

The Bowie is a $12 Winchester that I beat up and jimped.
Do you know how hard it is to distress modern stainless?

Please. Keep your Chrome out of my steel!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Thanks Andy.

Just a cold steel pipe hawk.

Welded up the hole for the lock nut and jimped. Reshaped, sanded, polished and blued the head.
Cut the handle down. Wire wrapped and burned it to get it a fiddle wood look. Then dyed it and hit it with BLO.

The Bowie is a $12 Winchester that I beat up and jimped.
Do you know how hard it is to distress modern stainless?

Please. Keep your Chrome out of my steel!

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Very nice....those Cold Steel 'Hawks are interesting...but the lock nut is a deal breaker for me.
Love what you did to yours.

And yes....keep that chrome / stainless steel outta my knives.
Andy

 

[Jeepsnguns]

The tomahawk and Bowie are little art projects of mine


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Good job on both! Very nice.
I also had to modify my Winchester cheap-o Bowie, seemed to me the finger grooves were meant for Andre the giant rather than normal sized humans.
Here is the Winchester post modification.

 

[roseburger]

Shout-out to @2Wheels4Ever and my new knife! I opted out of the dangly bits.

 

[Bobbygun]

Shout-out to @2Wheels4Ever and my new knife! I opted out of the dangly bits.

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Why you posting those dinky little photos that won't enlarge?