All About Pocket Knives

Thanks guys, those are just a few I had pictures of. I must have loved making them.

Thanks guys, I’m a perfectionist (freak). The intent was super clean looking scales. Been on my belt all day except when I took it out to use it. After using my new Japanese wet stone and leather strop,.....holy crap. Easily sharpest knife I have, and I’m known for sharp knives.

Here it is now. I hate I had to put pins through the scales.

Here are a few I been working on. Let’s see, materials are buffalo horn, cocobola,Hawaiian Koa. And an original to show what they look like (some worse) when I start on them. I’m just learning too, but it’s fun figuring it out. 75A48088-1C58-412B-AD99-86956969C7EB.jpeg 1A9E186A-32A9-463D-9E45-4BE3EF...

I will when I get home. I'm ashamed of them though, but ya'all are a great bunch of guys..

This is the one I was having problems with, but the scales are pinned now. I am at work and don't have any pics of it now. As everybody can see, Buck 110, I made buffalo horn scales. Beautiful, but didn't last in my pocket.
Tom

Nice work Sir! It gets in your blood.

Here are a couple of customs I made back when I could make knives. Don't remember who they went to. I Used 1095 steel. Let's see if this works.
Tom

Very nice. I have several of the TL29s I am restoring for my sons. Klein,camillus,and others. I am just learning, and yours looks way better than mine.
Great job.

On handle pins, through thin liners, is the inside end of the pin flared somehow and the outside end peened, to form a mechanical lock that holds the scales tight? Or is it just contact between the round pin and the round hole in the liner that provides the grip? The hole on the inside of the liner...

Thanks everybody for the welcome. Wow, some folks are even familiar with my home. Amazing.
I'll get some pictures up of my fixed blades (this weekend). They are really pretty, but meant to be used.
Tom

I modified/customized a Buck 110 that I have. I removed the wooden scales, replaces the center pin and made new scales from buffalo horn. I attached the buffalo horn scales by roughing up the mating surfaces and gluing with slow cure epoxy that I have used for years with no problem. The center pin i...

Morning everybody. I am Tom Chitwood from Kentucky. Pine Knot, (yes you read that right), KY. I had a YT channel (under my name) and made/ sold fixed blade knives all over the world. A motorcycle crash/ traumatic brain injury put an end to that. Although I have lost enough motor skills and concentra...