All About Pocket Knives

Sasquach wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 1:37 pm

Fingers wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 12:33 pm Sorry for the repetition. Germany, Japan, England & France

An international stainless steel display! Very cool.

Thanks. Always on the lookout for the plain & simple.

Shining Saturday.

Purdy knife, Jedi!

Corn Creek Cutlery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:24 am I made this one for my wife, similar to the first knife, but with pine cone micarta scales.

I really like the geometry and proportions of your custom blade; I could envision multiple applications for a knife like that. (Please send it to me if for some reason your wife is not satisfied with it, you can make her another one )

Nice photo, too

This denim micarta by Rough Ryder has always been very photogenic

QTCut5 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 9:17 pm

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:27 pm I am very partial to red bone...

I really like the diamond crosshatch jigging on that Tidioute, T-Dog And the patina looks great with the red bone...so, I gotta ask....forced patina or natural? (looks exactly like mine after I give them a white vinegar treatment)


Found a good use for my unsharpened Schatt: a photo prop I hate carrying an unsharpened knife, but I figured I probably should get a few pics of it in its natural state before it gets forever altered and actually made useful with a sharp edge!

Cha-ching Q! You had it right, it was an "accidently-forced" patina... in as much as I soaked it in Evapo-Rust®(I think they use acid from citrus) to remove some light peppering and I left it in over 24 hours and Oops! It completely darkened the blade just like a heavy white vinegar treatment. After my initial shock ... I thought the blade looked pretty cool, almost with a gun bluing look to it.

Corn Creek Cutlery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:24 am Charlie, TopDog, Zach, & 'Q' ... your photography is amaaaazing!!

This one is for you CxIII

From our walk this afternoon.

doglegg wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 1:25 pm

Corn Creek Cutlery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:24 am Charlie, TopDog, Zach, & 'Q' ... your photography is amaaaazing!!
I made this one for my wife, similar to the first knife, but with pine cone micarta scales.

Great looking knife.

Thank you Floyd!

Sasquach wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 1:36 pm

Corn Creek Cutlery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:24 am Charlie, TopDog, Zach, & 'Q' ... your photography is amaaaazing!!
I made this one for my wife, similar to the first knife, but with pine cone micarta scales.

Beautiful knife! I love the pine cone micarta handle.

Much appreciated Charlie ... Man, you have injected life into this thread lately ... superb photos and cutlery!

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:01 pm

Corn Creek Cutlery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:24 am Charlie, TopDog, Zach, & 'Q' ... your photography is amaaaazing!!
I made this one for my wife, similar to the first knife, but with pine cone micarta scales.

CxIII, Wow!!! Beautiful knife, it looks so shiny and clean! I also love the pinecone micarta handles, man, you done good!

Thanks TopDog! I really enjoy doing them. A different style knife is next.

QTCut5 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 12:46 pm

Corn Creek Cutlery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:24 am I made this one for my wife, similar to the first knife, but with pine cone micarta scales.

I really like the geometry and proportions of your custom blade; I could envision multiple applications for a knife like that. (Please send it to me if for some reason your wife is not satisfied with it, you can make her another one )

Nice photo, too

Many thanks "Q" I slimmed the scales on this one for her hands.
She was peeling apples, making apple butter, when the inspiration hit me. She love it!

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 1:02 am

Corn Creek Cutlery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:24 am Charlie, TopDog, Zach, & 'Q' ... your photography is amaaaazing!!

This one is for you CxIII

Japan made ... yes! I drew out a pattern similar to that profile, with a clip point. Gotta do some clip/swedge practice before attempting.

Thank you all for the comments!

This is my favorite big knife, it slices, it dices, it chops, and if need be doubles as a short sword. A Parker Edwards crown stag bowie bench made by Randall Gilbreath in J'ville ALA 1986. It has been on many camping trips, in hunting camp every season and in all that time it has only developed one small crack in the stag near the guard. She still looks good after years of use, some of it pretty hard use too.

Sasquach wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 2:06 pm big knife, it slices, it dices, it chops

That's a beauty, Squach! Love the gnarly crown stag handle Still looks new despite all the mileage you've put on it. Nice photo...well-positioned to accentuate the lines and graceful upswept curve of the blade. Smooth chunk of driftwood makes a nice backdrop/knife stand


My Limited Edition Black Lip Pearl Lone Wolf Paul Executive accompanied me on my 'hood circuit this morning. Normally, the sunlight would bring out more colors in the pearl, but all the vog in the air being spewed out of Kilauea diffuses the light and diminishes the pearl's visible prism spectrum

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 1:02 am

Corn Creek Cutlery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:24 am Charlie, TopDog, Zach, & 'Q' ... your photography is amaaaazing!!

This one is for you CxIII

Can i looksie too? It looks sick

QTCut5 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 8:22 pm

Sasquach wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 2:06 pm big knife, it slices, it dices, it chops

That's a beauty, Squach! Love the gnarly crown stag handle Still looks new despite all the mileage you've put on it. Nice photo...well-positioned to accentuate the lines and graceful upswept curve of the blade. Smooth chunk of driftwood makes a nice backdrop/knife stand


My Limited Edition Black Lip Pearl Lone Wolf Paul Executive accompanied me on my 'hood circuit this morning. Normally, the sunlight would bring out more colors in the pearl, but all the vog in the air being spewed out of Kilauea diffuses the light and diminishes the pearl's visible prism spectrum

Thanks Q!
Palm fronds and rolling surf in the background, it doesn't get any better than that. Oh yeah, beautiful knife too. Were you drinking a piña colada with a little parasol stuck in it while you shot those? Very cool photos Q.

These are from our walk today. I got some moss in there for Q.

Swenson custom

sgteldridge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 11:01 pm Swenson custom

Love the Swenson custom, beautiful knife. The poem is a nice touch too. Great photo Sarge!

This is one of the oldest knives in my collection.

Connecticut Cutlery Co. Naugatuck, Connecticut ebony handled jack, 1867 - 1883.

Sasquach wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 9:10 pm Palm fronds and rolling surf in the background...Were you drinking a piña colada with a little parasol stuck in it while you shot those?

Gee, Squach, I would think you of all people should know how hurtful it is to be reduced to a simplistic stereotype, a comical caricature, a mere meme And, BTW, you left out the hula dancers in grass skirts wearing flower leis at a luau. But, to answer your question, No, I was not drinking a piña colada with a little parasol stuck in it when I shot those....I was drinking a Mai Tai in a hollowed out pineapple with a little parasol stuck in it! (Seriously dude, I'm not some cartoonish Parrothead living in Margaritaville!)

Sighted this extremely rare Mammoth Ivory billed Wharncliffe crested Swayback sapsucker perched in a tree while I was out and about this morning.

Sasquach wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 9:13 pm These are from our walk today. I got some moss in there for Q.

Copperhead resting on a bed of moss….how very Edenic! I love it

Your vintage Connecticut Cut Co is pretty cool, too

sgteldridge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 11:01 pm Swenson custom

vert cool shield on the Swenson custom

Parker and Frost white bone