Woods and bush Knife Scandi

Posted below is a recently completed custom ordered
Woods and bush knife.

This bush knife has a scandi grind with a pattern aged blade and
beautiful hard grained ironwood handle.

The spine on this knife has been hand file worked.

The sheath is one of my hand stitched antiqued belt sheaths.

Thank you 

Matt

ML Knives

https://ml-knives.com/

Belt knife with a Vintage age and tooled leather (an early look)

Below is a custom order knife. I just found photos of this as pics were
taken when snow was still on the ground.

This is one of my vintage aged frontier style belt knives from an
original design

The blade is both pattern and patina aged finish about 5 plus inches long.

The spine has been file worked and the handle is aged black walnut.

All the pins are brass.

The sheath was hand stitched and a custom matching ferro rod was
requested.

A quick look at a close up of some tooled leather that will be available soon.

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

Fishing with my country bag, carry knife and a stag kephart custom

I had a chance to get out and do a little fishing recently
and I wanted to show you what I carry most times.

My country bag  that has a fishing kit inside, an ultra light
rod a reel and my carry knife.

This carry knife has been with me for awhile and now I am
currently carrying this with a single piece of leather and cord
lock.

I will post more about this in a different blog post as well as
give you more details and info on how you can use this set up.

This sheath set up will be offered on my website as well in the
future.



The kephart below is a custom order with a beautiful stag handle. Sheath has been hand stitched.

Thank you

Matt

ML Knives

http://www.mlknives.com

Hard using bush knife with a straight back spine

Just completed for a customer is this straight back style knife
with a beefed up 3/16" spine.

This knife was part of a set, larger and smaller knife
but at the time of this post I only have access to the larger
knife pic.

Knife info:

The blade is about 5 inches long with a patina aged finish.
Handle is aged black walnut with brass pins and lanyard hole.

Sheath was hand stitched and antiqued and has a loop for a
ferro rod.

Thank you for reading.

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

Vintage aged bone handled Hunter Knife

This is a custom order vintage style hunting and skinning knife.

The handle is antiqued bone with five steel pins, both hand hatched
and carved.

The blade is short of 4" and has been patina aged and the clip has
a slight taper.

The sheath has been hand stitched and antiqued an the face has
been free hand tooled and carved with a unique scroll and vine
design.

Also, I am in the process of a website & blog update that has been a long

time coming.  This change will be a better, easier way to navigate the website

and have a very clean look to it.  When everything is all set a newsletter will be 

sent and I will post here.

Thank you.

Matt

ML Knives

http://www.mlknives.com

Straight back Knife with High grain burl handle

Posting this week is a custom straight back design with a
blade about 5" long both pattern and patina aged.

The handle is a one of a kind piece of high grain stabilized
red wood burl and the spine has been hand file worked.

The sheath has been hand stitched, hand tooled and carved
with a one of a kind design.

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

Scandi Kephart Knives

Posted below is a recent set of custom ordered
kephart knives.

Both have scandi grinds with tiger maple handles.

Pattern and patina aged blades.

The hand stitched sheaths are dangler set ups both for the
right and left hand.

The latest Youtube post, a portion of this was used for my Channel Trailer.


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

A Camp and field knife with a Customized Sheath

Below is one of my recently completed custom order
camp and field knives.

The handle is tiger maple with brass pins and rear
lanyard hole.

Something that was custom ordered on this knife
was the sheath.  This sheath has a custom flap
and snap that goes over the entire handle.

Also just recently posted a new video showing a different style snap
sheath below.

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

Importance of a Good welted Knife Sheath

One of the main things when it comes to knife sheaths,
in my mind, is not only making a sheath that looks great
but is also functional. The most important aspect is a full
solid welt.

For all of you that already know what a welt is on a
sheath this may be a little redundant.  This is for new
readers, frequent readers of my blog, and visitors to
my website that are looking for information and tips.

A decent knife sheath shouldn't be a single piece
of light weight plastic or leather. Simply folding
over a piece of material, with a  few rivets or a
 small light weight line of stitching, can be risky.

This will only make the sheath and knife more
dangerous inside the sheath especially if your in
some back country, climbing a tree stand or
any outdoor venture.

A sharp knife blade can easily come through the
side of a sheath that has no welt. A sharp knife can
cut into flesh before you would even know it.

So basically a welt almost acts like a guard for
the blade.  The pic below shows the side shot of
one of my hand stitched sheaths with solid
8 to 9 ounce leather.  All of my sheaths have a full
welt.

Also posted below is some custom work recently completed.
This is one of my H7 Hand Jigged Hunting Skinner's.
This knife has hand jigged horn with large brass pins.
The sheath is in the process of being worked on.

Thank you very much for everything,
Matt
ML Knives
http://www.mlknives.com

The Frontier style belt knife and tooled leather

This knife was a custom order based off of one of the
knives that was listed on Available Knives Gallery 1 of my
website.

The design was based off of an original vintage belt knife
but this version has a beefed up 3/16" spine.

The handle is tiger maple with brass pins and the blade
is over 5 inches long with a pattern and patina aged finish.

The spine of this knife has also been file worked.

The sheath was hand stitched and antiqued.

If you missed seeing the last new tooled and carved
leather piece I had available I am posting one of the pics below.

I am thinking on making a video to give you all an idea of how
my tooling and leather creating is done.
A design like the one above started with a drawing on
paper.
Available leather Pieces

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

A Custom order Hudson Bay Knife with Tiger Maple

This week I am posting a custom order Hudson Bay Camp
Knife.

This is one of my Swept blade versions with a pattern
and patina aged finish blade.

The handle is tiger maple with brass pins over brass
washers.

The sheath was hand stitched, antiqued and made to wear
high to cross draw the knife.

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

Fire set and a Kephart knife

This week I am posting on of my custom kephart knives
with a tiger male handle.  This custom order also
Has a file worked spine and pattern aged blade.
A Custom hand stitched sheath was made for this
kephart as well but didn't make it into this
photo.

Something else I am working on for custom work is this
forged steel, custom antler Ferro rod and tooled sheath.
All of the tooling is from one of my original designs
And was worked by hand.
The back of this sheath has 2 holes for carrying as a neck
set up buck this could also be slipped into a pocket,
pack or bag very easily.

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

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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A straight back custom knife with a vintage style. Tooled leather wallet

This week I'm posting a custom order Vintage style straight back
knife with a blade that is about 4 1/2" long.

The finish is a pattern and patina aged finish and the spine has
been file worked.

The handle is about equal in length and in antiqued hickory
with brass pins.

The sheath was antiqued and hand stitched.

Below is a detail photo of one of my custom hand tooled and carved wallets.
More details and info can be found on my
Available Leather Pieces Page

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

A neck knife custom with stag and a tooled pocket sheath

This weeks post I am posting a custom carry knife that was
set up for a neck carry knife but can also be carried
on the belt if wanted.

The blade on this knife is about 2 plus inches and the handle
is stag with brass pins and rear lanyard hole.
The leather through the hole has a handmade stag bead attached.

The tooling on the sheath was all worked by hand as well.

Another tooled piece was hand worked on this square pocket sheath
of a custom tree and mountain scene.

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

Drop point with cottonwood burl and a Neck Knife Fire Steel Set

This week I have two knives to show you one is with a
fire set.

The first was a custom order set.

First is a drop point with a blade a little a hair under 4"
with a pattern aged finish

The handle is cottonwood burl with brass pins.

The spine was hand file worked and sheath was
hand stitched as well and antiqued in a medium
brown.

The Second piece is custom made as well.
The entire set up is to be worn as a neck set up that has a small thin
handled knife with a short blade that has been file worked.
The set also has a forged C-Steel and custom antler ferro rod
 The small knife fits in the back of the sheath piggy back style.

Also, something else that I do is write and I just
released a fiction book you might like.
called  PIKERS HUNT.

Its available on Amazon
only in 2 formats.
Paperback
E-book kindle.
Book has
some strong Language





Thank you

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

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

The Hudson Bay Camp Knife Custom with Osage

This is a recently completed Hudson bay camp knife
from my shop.

This camp knife has a high aged pattern and patina
finish blade and is about 8 inches long.

The handle is antiqued Osage orange and you can
see from the photo the sheath was customized as well.

This was made with a pancake style set up for a left
hand draw.  The blade only goes into the sheath
deep enough where the handle ends.

I wish you all a Happy New Year.

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

A Custom vintage style Trail Knife with Finger Grooved Handle

Posted below is a recent custom piece with a beautiful
vintage look and feel.

This is a drop point style knife with pattern and patina aged
blade at about 4 1/2" long.

Handle is antiqued bone with large brass pins and also has
finger grooves.

Belt Sheath has been hand stitched and antiqued the tooling
and carving on the lower portion has been worked by hand.

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

Belt Knife custom

Below is a custom order belt knife made with a frontier look and feel.

The blade on this knife is about 6 inches long with a patina aged
finish.  The forward clip/Swedge has been tapered a bit as well.
The spine has been file worked.

The handle is aged black walnut with custom hatching on the
forward haft.

Belt sheath has been antiqued and hand stitched.  This has been
set up to wear high on the belt and cross draw the knife.

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