The Short Survivalist with Rawhide

This week I am posting one of my customized
short survivalist knives.

This is my short survivalist with tiger maple
and pattern aged blade with a custom
tight stitched forward haft of rawhide.

The sheath was hand cut, worked and hand stitched
set up to wear horizontally on the belt.
Antiqued in a darker brown.

Thank you

Matt

ML Knives

http://www.mlknives.com

Carry Knife Used Hard Everyday

Once and awhile I will post some of the knives I carry and use
as well as knives I have made for family members.

The knife posted below originally had a leather stacked thin handle,
I posted here on the blog awhile back.  Sine then I decided to
put this rough cut rustic maple on instead.

Most of the aging and darker color you see on the handle is from
me using it.  This knife gets carried often, mostly in my pocket
and is in my shop allot.  So it gets used hard.

I have used this little knife for everything from making small
kindling to cutting leather, food, fire making.  You name it.

I wanted to post a picture of it so you could see the aging
on the knife.  Everything has aged very nice.

Thank you

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

Customized Stag Nessmuk Knife

Some recent work from my shop.  This is a customized nessmuk
with a blade that is a bit wider, at about 1 3/4" give or take.
The spine is 3/32" thick and black spacers are behind the
antiqued stag handle.

This custom nessmuk also has steel pins and steel lined rear
lanyard hole.

The sheath as all my sheaths is hand stitched and antiqued
medium brown.

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

Woods and bush knife custom

Here is some recent custom order work from my shop.  This is
one of my woods and bush knives with an antiqued Hickory
handle.  Steel pins and lanyard.
About sizes on my woods and bush knife are overall
9 1/2" with a blade about 4 9/16" long.
Leather through lanyard hole is hand braided.

Recent pic from a woods journey.

Thank you

Matt

ML Knives

http://www.mlknives.com/

Custom Camp Butcher Knife

This week I am posting one of my custom order Camp Butcher Knives.

These are very nice stout camp and old school style butcher knives
capable of many cutting and camp chores.

Pictures below show this one with a cleaner 8" blade and aged black
Walnut handle, steel pins over brass washers.  The sheath is darker
brown and hand stitched set up to wear left hand carry.
Spine is 3/16" tang.

You can see this knife as well on my
special order page 3 of my website.

Thank you

Matt

ML Knives

http://www.mlknives.com/

A Custom Nessmuk Knife

The Nessmuk below was completed recenelty for a custom order
and thought I would share some pictures.

Blade is high aged  and has a very nice patina, and the handle is
Black ebony with 2 large steel pins.  The spine has also been
beefed up to 3/16" thickness.

The sheath is hand stitched and was done to a very rich dark
brown color. 



I also posted a new video, one of my personal knives.

If you would like to subscribe to my youtube
channel  I posted the link below.

Thank you

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

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

Pocket Knives with a Fixed blade

Back in 2009 I wrote an article for my blog called.  "Pocket Knives don't have to fold"

This is the revised version.  Hope you all enjoy.

When most people now a days think of pocket knife they automatically think of a
folding knife or maybe a lock back folder, one might even thick of the auto knife
or what I call thumb open knives.

If you remember back as a kid your grandfather probably always had a pocket
knife that he carried, usually with a jigged bone handle that didn't lock. 
(the old school jack knife) Those were great knives weren't they? I had one for
a long time when I was a younger and it went with me everywhere.  Many still
carry this style knife.

There are other options for pocket knife carry though.  Small fixed blades such
as the knives shown below can be carried in your pocket, pack, neck knife carry,
shooting bag, or even on your belt and are very handy for all sorts of cutting and
slicing chores.  Besides you will also have the strength of a full tang knife.




Carry knife set up to wear on the belt with a blade about 2 3/4" long
handle of bocote.

Last chance carry knife



Carry game knife with stag handle..blade about 2 3/4"
Sheath set up for belt, but can also be slipped into a pocket
bag, or pack.

A fixed blade knife you can carry with you every where is great.



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