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Ive attached the pommels in different ways with screws or pins but i always replace that soft punk with good hard wood so it will hold. Its a tiger to get a through tang in some of the antlers with the bends in them without hogging out the whole antler. On full size knives i pin the tang also. Always trying to make them better. Thank you i really appreciate that!

those are fine looking indeed!!

lol it would fit great in your back pocket and work great too for helping folks understand what your sayin.

good question i drilled out the soft part of the antler and glued in a wooden plug then silver soldered a wood screw to the endcap and screwed it on.

well thank you, on the tool i imagine it would this was actually my first time using it except for some practice and i got kind of lucky and the length of the stamping came out correct on the side so the pattern fit almost perfectly, across the top i could see it didn't fit so i just stopped after the hearts. i would love to say i planned that lol.

sweet I haven't seen that site they have some nice stamps.

wowzers that is really fine work indeed. i like that stamp too where did you get it?

that's cool indeed.

thank you Pastor and it would be my pleasure.

thanks Its so tiny it seems like a toy lol. really sharp toy

those are awesome no criticism here . My suggestion is to make some different styles knives and sheathes or possibly just some other leather goods. How about trying an embossed leather sheath lol.

lol thanks.

the brass is about half guard and half look's lol it does provide a comfortable grip in that corner for the finger while not getting in the way of cutting. i try to make things artistically pleasing as possible.

Thanks Tug they are just for pretty i did them mainly for the practice and what the heck if your gonna make your self a knife then why not lol. The bolsters are Elk antler.

probably bad heat treatment. I make most of my stuff from 1095 its a good knife steel.

it is so the two pieces dont or cant be pulled apart and create extra stress on your first stitch.

Thanks Sam i appreciate that.

Thanks, its even smaller than my patch knife lol. Thank you for the inspiration friend.

I dont know if the curved edge would be better or not i know mine will cut saddle in one pass coming or going lol and i do know that purdy polish helps. Did you look close at what 30 bucks buys you? basically about a 10 to 20 minute grind to about 400 grit and a quick heat treatment. didn't even polish off the carbon black. It would take some work to get one of those in respectable condition imo.

Thanks Bert

Thank you. Those are "killa" for sure beautiful work you defenetly need to put that knowledge into some leather tools much more satisfying than buying the crap they sell nowadays.

Thanks its a piece of off cut 1095 from other projects. That piece of brass is out of a prison lock ironically called a blade also, I salvaged a few or them when they wore out and had to be replaced i have one left lol.

I have scraps from knife making also. Hags got me thinking about how to use them also. So i made this kneck nife , kneck knife, neck nife lol. Fun weekend project. 4 oz , bison brown, French twist stitch. the knife 2" blade 41/2" approx overall with Deer antler . Hammered brass pommel because the piece of brass was to small lol. What was so interesting is i got to try a few new things both in knife making and leather without having to worry about the outcome, after all they are just scraps right.

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