Bushwalk Australia

Only recently found this interest after successfully "doing up" some old kitchen knives for daughter #1 who is moving out soon.

Sourced blanks from a couple of places . Fun projects. Nice combination of OCD, woodwork, metal work, aesthetics, and usefulness. Thought I'd share!

The demascus blade with the banksia handle is beautiful. When do you start selling them?

andrewa wrote:Only recently found this interest after successfully "doing up" some old kitchen knives for daughter #1 who is moving out soon.

Sourced blanks from a couple of places . Fun projects. Nice combination of OCD, woodwork, metal work, aesthetics, and usefulness. Thought I'd share!

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Great looking knife well done. I'm doing a bushcraft knife over the xmas break. I'll post a pick when it's done.


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Nice
i really like those Old Man Banksia scales

Works of art Andrew

A knife is a knife to me, even so i'd buy a couple of those Banksias, amazing! You need to give up your day job

Nuts, until a few months ago, I also though a knife was just a knife! And then I started looking at them more carefully...

A tent is just a tent, right?!

But, looking more carefully, I now appreciate a variety of levels of aesthetics about knives, from the whole shape, to the blade , to the handle design and patination, to the pin design and intricacy. It's been fascinating. I'll keep my day job though. It pays better!

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Very nice work Andrew.

Beautiful work!

andrewa wrote:Nuts, until a few months ago, I also though a knife was just a knife! And then I started looking at them more carefully...

A tent is just a tent, right?!

But, looking more carefully, I now appreciate a variety of levels of aesthetics about knives, from the whole shape, to the blade , to the handle design and patination, to the pin design and intricacy. It's been fascinating. I'll keep my day job though. It pays better!

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Any chance you might use one of those knives in the course of your day job (suitably sterilized of course)?

For those patients who won't get to the point, you mean?!

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Had shed time over weekend.....all small knives - blades 6.5-7.5 cm, knives <18cm.

Collected some ? Eucalyptus nuts from Phillip Island over NY weekend, impregnated them in pale green epoxy, and sliced this into bits for the scales..



Another view


Small filleting knife - Burl scales


Same blank. Phillip Island banksia scales with blue epoxy fill


Details of home made pin - copper tube inside brass tube, with wire infill


Pale blue epoxy in Banksia slices


Going to give the small filleters to fishing buddies.

Hope everyone enjoys the aesthetics!

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Nice work again with these latest. I can picture a little map of oz or tassie done in wire.

Wrong! Next knives will probably be personalised knives for daughters 1-4. I just need them to think about whether they want a big samurai sword, or a Bowie, or something more discreet. Hoping the latter!

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Khukris

Khuki, or Khukuri....aesthetics don't do it for me, sorry. I don't like the bend in the knife. I like a gentle knife, if there is something that fits that description - hence the drop points. I don't like aggressive styles, or significant angulation. I like gentle curves. And I don't want a knife to kill anyone. I want to fillet fish, and cut cheese and salami!

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Those seed pods are from a Melaleuca. Regardless, thread new knives look good too!

I have a deep underlying love for Sheepsfoot blades. The ultimate practical non-agressive tool!

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Funny thing is; even tho I know The Gurkali use them as weapons I think of mine as firewood and woodworking tools

whitefang wrote:Those seed pods are from a Melaleuca. Regardless, thread new knives look good too!

Thanks, clearly I have no idea! I did have some eucalyptus seed pods I've set in epoxy, but not sure whether I want to continue with thei project yet, as the malaleuca seed pods suspended were great.

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[quote="Strider"]I have a deep underlying love for Sheepsfoot blades. The ultimate practical non-agressive tool!

Not heard of sheeps foot blades until your post. They are aesthetic.

Latest 2 projects are about to be finished, so will post some more piccies. Beyond that I think I'm almost done with knives, but would like to make each of my girls a special knife....

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Finished today. Damascus and banksia nut.

These all look fantastic! I'd also recommend a sheeps foot as a very practical and non aggressive blade shape.

Banksia scales, yellow epoxy fill as a carver ( Jantz blank) - a gift for daughter #2's best friend





Chillis in epoxy - for a good fishing mate who recently sent me some home grown chilli for making chilli jam. Complicated process suspending chilli in epoxy, but eventually got it right. And built on an expensive Jantz Damascus blank.





A kayaking/ packrafting knife - wanted something with a hook for cutting ropes easily, which would also be functional around camp. Daughter #3 commented that it was a really "FU" knife for a girl - pink epoxy in Banksia, but with one of the most brutal knife blades she'd seen!



Another carver for my closest fishing mate, with whom I've had some great NZ adventures. Trout flies in epoxy, graduating from clear to green





Another expensive Jantz Damascus carver for another fishing mate - this guy loves saltwater fly fishing, and Yamazaki Japanese single malt whisky, and we've enjoyed some good trips to Kiritimati chasing bonefish, hence the flies are local to Kiritimati, and the Whisky labels , again embedded in graduated blue epoxy.







Hope you enjoy!!

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Those flies trapped in epoxy amber are simpy stunning

Thanks. I'm pleased with them too ( actually , ecstatic, given the cost if the knife blanks I was working on!)

Looking at some other natural stuff for next batch - there are these lovely bright red seads from our Magnolia Grandiflora, and was even thinking of some "Micarta" style autumn leaves ( Micarta is layers of different coloured paper/fabric etc all epoxied together in a block, and then shaped to produce a "grain" appearance.

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