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After seeing and excellent post from rawcustom about his skiving knife I decided to show the knives I recently made.

I have "Super Skiver" and "Safety Beveler" from Tandy but no mater what I did I could not master any of them. It usually took a lot of time and effort to get the result I wanted. My other hobby is a knifemaking so I decided to make my own skiving knife. I also wanted to try a small round knife instead of "Angled Utility Knife" (also from Tandy) that I've been using to cut leather. I could not call it a head knife, more like a half of a head knife.

Leather Wranglers knives were my inspiration for this project, so you might see familiar shapes.

I looked at my small steel inventory and decided to use a 2" wide 1/16" thick piece of ATS-34 that I had. I don't have a furnace so I had to send blades for professional heat treatment. They are about 58-59 HRC.

For handles I used stabilized wood: maple with 416 stainless steel bolster for skiving knife and spalted maple for another.

One of the images shows sheaths that I made for them. As you can see I made handles thick and rounded just because I like the way they sit in my hand.

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those are some really good looking knifes and the best thing about it that you made them your self

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Those are very nice. Beautiful.

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Very nice indeed.

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Love the handles! The one on the round knife looks a couple of millenia old. Never heard of spalted maple but I like. The bolsters look great, too. Just cool stuff you have there.

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You are very talented indeed ...

Quality leather goods www.captain-itch.com www.Tennesseeholstercompany.com

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I have also found that what is offered is not necessarily the best. These look worth selling !!

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