What a talented guy! This beauty is entirely hand made. Only power tools used were a grinder and a drill. The blade is 440 stainless from scrap. Cryro hardened. All hand polished. The handle is from a walnut slab he cut out of a blow down years ago. He makes the sheaths too. Pretty jazzed to be the owner of this one!
That’s a nice looking knife. I like knives like that one, attractive, but not so flashy that they’d never get used.
Very nice Jim. Great craftsmanship.
Gorgeous knife. That handle is a really nice piece of walnut. I’d love to have a bass made out of that.
Really nice workmanship. I like the handle.
Great looking!
Custom knives can get pretty pricey really quick. Nice to have such a talented and generous brother!
Its cool that its a solid peice and not sandwiched. Seemless and tight.
Beautiful pieces there Jim. Does your brother ever do customer sheaths for folks or is it just a hobby? I have a hunting knife that my Grandfather made that I would like to have a custom leather sheath made for. LMK.
Now that’s a Knoife!!!
To my knowledge he doesn’t do anything for sale. It adds deadlines, and there’s just no way to compete price-wise with factory work. So he just does it for fun. He’s into cowboy action shooting too, so he also makes belts and holsters, leather Rough Rider trousers, pistol grips, you name it. All meticulously built to authentic specs. He’s a real artist. He recently told me he needs a break from that stuff, so hes going to build a clock from scratch.
Awesome, sounds like a true craftsman, on his own terms. Can’t fault that.
Sounds like he is into “process”. If it were easy then the outcome would be meaningless. 
To the process-artist the process outweighs the outcome. So the tangible end-result is just a representation of all the effort and skill put into its creation.
Building a movement clock from scratch… That’s an undertaking.
That’s awesome. I wish I could craft things like that. I have all the ideas in the world, then the reality of what I make hits, and, well…
Awesome!
That’s a great looking knife Jim! Something I’ve tinkered with but never really had the time to really go after it.
Is it odd that after watching almost 2 seasons of “Forged in Fire” that I now want to become a blacksmith apprentice? Just for the fun, sweat, and satisfaction of making something. Oh wait, I already do that, and that’s why I’m here
I’d like to think its a reachable goal for all of us to home brew beer that is every bit the quality of any beer that is for sale. Even the really good stuff. In fact, keeping my brother’s awesome knife work in mind, we too can probably go places in sheer creativity and craftsmanship that commercial guys can’t touch, simply because we can afford to at our scale. I mean, what knife company could afford to pay a guy 90 hours wages and end up with a knife that they could reasonably sell? Not very many, because there’s not very many customers at that level. But we can drop $200 on 5 gallons of beer, and give it away.