I wanted something light, fast, and BIG that would be possible to carry - every day - and go completely unnoticed.

The 8.5” long blade is made of 1/4" thick CPM-S30v, and heat treated by Paul Bos, & double hollow ground on an 8" wheel thinned to 7/32" to eek a bit more weight off of it without sacrificing too much beef.. It's ground thin, as I was looking to make it light and easy to conceal, so this can't do double duty as a prybar. It feels incredibly fast in the hand. The handle is green canvas micarta, and blade and handle have been bead blasted for maximum grip and pretty cool styling, if I do say so myself!

I love the way this chopper/bowie style knife turned out. Forged from 3/8” thick 1095, with a clay-coated heat treatment and  gorgeous Amboyna burl handle scales, this was a break-though knife for me. It was the first big blade I’d ever done that managed to achieve the correct proportions for blade size, handle size, weight and balance. Although you can’t see it in this photo, there is a beautiful hamon that just refused to be captured in photos.

There were so many noteworthy experiences with the making of this knife that I wrestled with selling it for months. The blade is 11" long, with an overall length of 16-1/4", of 1095 which was heat treated using an unusual method of clay-less hamon creation. The guard is mild steel, with a domed stainless steel pin through the handle. The thickest point of the spine is 1/4".

The idea of making a knife with no ricasso came from a desire to have as much of the knife available to create hamon as I could.

The handle is figured Tamboti.

This is the “Mojo”, a collaboration among myself, ABS Journeyman smith Daniel Farr and Roger Pinnock. The entire knife was started and finished in a single weekend, and the event is perfectly captured in Roger’s thread on Bladeforums.com titled: “The 72 Hour Bowie”. Worth checking out, as it nearly killed us from exhaustion! One of the best experiences of my life.

This big boy is an 11” blade fighting bowie with a fluted stainless oval guard and a simple bocote handle. Ground thin, it’s light and fast for such a massive blade, and the clip on the back of the knife has been sharpened for back-cutting.

Proper differential tempering of the CruForgeV steel gives it a strong, resilient spine and high wear resistance at the edge.

The MattChettay has a 12" blade of .150" thick Crucible CPM-4v, with all the gritty, raunchy hot milling finish left on the flats, and a short bevel that's ever-so-gently convexed. Overall length is just shy of 18", with a 6" handle of Cumaru, or Brazilian Teak.

I've always loved master bladesmith Bill Bagwell's Bowie knives, and have even made one or two in the past that were reminiscent of his designs, always wanting to make something decidedly in his style yet keeping my own style on it, and this one is no different. I also wanted to have a cool bullwhip with a matching handle, so I contacted my friend Heather of Newland Wicked Whips and she agreed to do a collaboration with me. I ordered a fletch of 5a koa from Peter Rushton ("petescustomkoa" on Instagram), cut myself what I needed, and sent the rest to her.

The 10" blade is made of Crucible CPM-4v, with my own proprietary heat treatment, and features full distal taper, a beveled spine, and an 800 grit hand satin finish. Those knifemakers that have worked with this steel will very likely understand the significance of this, as high vanadium tool steels basically don't finish this way. The simple oval guard of stainless steel has a satin finish, and a rounded and mirror polished edge. The spacer is stacked stainless steel and black G10, and the faceted coffin handle is stabilized curly koa. Balance is just behind the plunge, and the entire knife is about 16", and weighs 14 ounces.

Heather's gorgeous bullwhip features the same wood, unstabilized to reduce weight, and is 6' long.

‘Tsunami’ is a design that my friend Lorien Arnold of LorienDesign created for me. I took his exquisite drawing and made the design my own. The full distal tapered 12" long blade of W2 has the most freakish hamon ever - the 'bare' looking areas toward the middle aren't bare, but rather have an excellent but faint "woodgrain" look to them, as if the heat was wafting and chasing its way out of the steel, and leaving permanent ripples in its wake. The guard is textured and aged brass, and the hande is figured koa with a resin-soaked tsukaito wrap. Overall length is 19-1/2", handle is 7-1/2", and the total weight is 20-1/4 ounces. Point of balance is about 3/4" forward of the guard.

Corpsegrinder" is a reference to a machine built by one of the protagonists in the science fiction novel "Mona Lisa Overdrive", by William Gibson. When I profiled this out, it was what immediately popped into my head, so I ran with it. 

For this knife, I drew a great deal of inspiration from my brothers Don Andrade, and Rick Marchand, which I'm sure is pretty easy to see. 

The 8” blade is of .150” thick Crucible CPM-4v, with a 14-1/2” overall length, and features a forced patina - a first, for me. 

The cocobolo for the handle is old-growth stuff from my buddy Don Andrade, held in place with hidden pins and a carbon fiber thonghole tube, and features a leather cord wrap sunk into a rebated channel. Weight is 15-5/8 ounces, and point of balance is just in front of the plunge. The cocobolo will get a beautiful, deep, dark red with black streaks as it ages.