A Custom stag handled long knife

This week,s post is a custom frontier style long knife
with a blade that is a bit over 9 inches long.  The
blade also has a nice pattern and patina aging.

The knife was handled with beautiful antiqued elk
stag with 3 steel pins.

The sheath was antiqued and hand stitched and
was also set up to wear high on the belt and
cross draw.

The sheath also has free hand tooled and carved

cross hatching.

Thank you
Matt
ML Knives
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Frontier stag Belt knife with frontier rawhide sheath

Recent work from my shop.  This was a custom order
frontier style belt knife.  A perfect size for knife
for many uses.

The patina aged blade is over 4 inches as well as the handle.
The stag was antiqued and has three decent sized copper pins.

The sheath is hand stitched and the entire piece was antiqued.
This style sheath was set up to be tucked behind a belt.
This is a double layered sheath with a hard core veg tan liner
and outer deer skin rawhide.  The beads are all vintage
trade beads.  The copper dangler was also made by hand.

A picture from a recent hike.....

Thank you

Matt

ML Knives

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Country Butcher knife..Past Work

Here is a knife from past work.

This was a wide bladed knife at about 2" wide with a patina
aged finish, handle being antiqued hard ash wood with steel pins.
Blade being about 8 inches long.

The knife was fashioned after some of the butcher style
knives that worked and served well for many years in this country
and had a solid tang that drifted back into the handle about more than
half way.

Thank you
Matt
ML Knives
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Custom Belt Knife...Frontier style

Below is a Custom order Belt knife I recently completed.  The blade is
about 5 inches long with patina aging.  The handle is black walnut
with 3 antiqued steel pins.  The sheath is hand stitched with a hand
tooled line worked tree.

Thank you
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

Stag Knives! Traditional Hunting Skinner and a shorter price skinner

Below is a recently completed custom knife.  This is one of my
H6 Traditional Hunting Skinner's with a Stag Handle and
brass pins.  Belt sheath is hand stitched.

I also wanted to post a picture of the knife below that was
done as a custom order awhile back.  This is a customized
version of my PRC Frontier Hunter Skinner
or the "Price Skinner"
This version was altered a bit to be at about a 4 inch
blade with some very nice patina aging and tapered forward
clip/swedge.

The handle is antiqued stag, steel pins over brass washers
and also has a lanyard hole at the end.

Thank you
Matt
MLKnives
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Modified Kephart Fisher Custom

I have a Mid week update for you all to see.  This custom order
kephart fisher has no scaler on the spine..The blade is about 4
inches long patina aged. The handle is antiqued hickory with
three steel pins.  The spine is 3/32" and the belt sheath is
hand stitched antiqued medium brown.

Thank you

Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

Hudson Bay Camp Knife with Trade Bead Cross

Originally Posted  on the June 12th, 2011

If you have passed by my blog more than once or my website
you have seen my personal Hudson bay camp knife. If not
I am posting a current picture of it below. It has aged
beautifully and looks as if it has passed through time.
I would also like to mention the trade bead silver cross in
the pictures. This was done for me by a nice gentleman
by the name of Kirk Preti of Good Medicine Beads. It is a
beautiful piece that I will be wearing everyday. The beads
are all original period and the finest I have seen. I will be
using all of his beads on any of the danglers or period pieces
that call for them in the future.
I am posting Kirk’s card below and on my link’s page of my website.

Thank you

Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com/

Frontier belt knife custom

Originally Posted in on the May 22nd, 2011

 

The knife posted below was custom ordered. This is a
frontier style knife with a patina aged blade about
5 inches long. The handle is aged hickory with a tight
stitched rawhide leather wrap. The sheath was
custom stitched and aged as well. The core
has a hard veg tan liner with full welt, outside is
rawhide and brain tan leather with aged trade beads
tin cone and horse hair.

A knife such as this will serve a large period of time as well
as a very nice using knife.
I know many new visitors have been passing by here. If your
interested in seeing more of my past work I have past work
galleries located on my website.
PAST WORK
PAST WORK 2
PAST WORK 3
PAST WORK EXTENDED
also If you like some of the articles I have published
you can view a newer one here
Knife Sheaths of the early American Frontier
Thank you for reading
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com/