52100 Triple Quenched Knives from the High Point Forge........

[highpoint forge]

Note to all....I am trying now to get the resized ones to show up here. If y'all can believe it we just make these for fun and display, plus a little use.

I have a giraffe legbone handled one I'll post up this weekend. It is nuts it's so cool.

[tippit]

HPF,  You just have to delete the larger pictures thru the edit pad on the original post.  Then re-insert the smaller versions...tippit

[highpoint forge]

OK deleted the original code and re-inserted the resized pics.....looks the same to me!

[sticshooter]

They are 800X600 still to big bud. No bigger then 600.<><

[vermonster13]

You need to hit refresh. They are the right size now.

[LC]

"I'd love to know how you get that braided look with your stitching on the sheaths. That's cool!"

Me too! Thats awesome.

[Butts2]

Knives a great without a doubt. Have to agree with LC the braided stitching on the sheath are...cool  

[highpoint forge]

Use two pieces (or four) with the stitching needle in the middle of your length of synthetic sinew. Since there is two layers of leather I pry it apart at the very bottom and introduce the needle there with at knot at the very end. Pull snug and bury the knot. Start lacing going in the top of the sheath, skipping the first hole, and come back underneath towards yourself to the hole you skipped, separate the sinew into two strands and pass the needle and sinew through. Repeat until you get to the top of the sheath. At the top you need to finish underneath and then just feed the needle through each stitch on the bottom, snugging each tight. The end result is a super strong V stitch that won't let go even if cut.

Does that make sense?

[highpoint forge]

If interested look up Ed Fowler's Hand Forging the 52100 Blade DVD or his Knife Talk series compiled from his column at BLADE magazine. These 52100 steel blades are amazing once properly heat treated, tempered, quenched and etched. Fowler took a protoype to his local game processor who proceeded to sharpen it once and then butcher entirely 24 deer, a large number of antelope and several elk on ONE sharpening.

[highpoint forge]

More knives ready. Who wants to see the giraffe legbone 6"? It's daaaaaaamn cool, plus we have a few bird & trout sized knives almost done.....

[Chris Surtees]

Great looking knives!!!

[kbaknife]

I know Texas is a big place, but when I went to Willow Bow in '04 and took Ed's class with Bill and Eldon and Butch, there was a young fella there named Jeff Davidson from Texas.
He even had a table at the Blade Show in '07. His knives had a very similar design to the Willow Bow gang's, using alternative materials to sheep horn.
Yours are very nicely done - like his.
Do you know him?

[highpoint forge]

No sir. Dad was up at Ed's two years back for a full week. We do seem to prefer Ed's style....