A custom kephart knife with stag handle and tooled Bear Sheath

This week's post is one of y custom kephart knives with
a beautiful antiqued elk stag handle.

As you can see from the photo this kephart has brass pins
and rear lined lanyard hole.

The spine on this one is 3/32" thick.

The sheath has been customized as well with some of my
original artwork.  It has a bear and mountains scene.
This is one of my paddle style sheaths that was chosen.

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

Vintage style hunting and field knife

Recently completed custom work below.

This is one of my Vintage style hunting and field knives.
The blade on this is about 3 3/4" long that has been patina
aged.

The handle is antiqued elk stag with brass pins.

Sheath was hand stitched with and has an antiqued darker
brown color.

Also something else you may enjoy reading is some of my writing.  You may have
seen some of my knife articles.  But I also invite you to have a look at some of
my short story work.  A link to one below to segment of one.

Wilderness Survival Short Story: 
The Back Country Journey

I want to wish you all and your Family's a great Thanksgiving.

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

Custom Leather Belt Bag. A Vintage looking bag.

A mid week blog update.

The custom leather belt bag below was made for a custom order.

This bag was made with a very traditional style in mind and was aged

and antiqued.  As all of my leather work everything was completed

hand stitched, all leather was hand cut and hand oiled.

The button was hand made as well and was made of a piece of

antiqued antler.

You can also see from the photos a small gusset was stitched into

the side for opening and fitting some larger sized objects

such as a fire kit tin.

This bag is about 5 1/2" tall.

Also if you want a kindle addition of my blog this can be subscribed to here.

ML Knives Knife Talk [Kindle Edition]

Thank you

Matt

ML Knives

http://www.mlknives.com

File work on Your Knife

Currently I offer "generally" three different styles of  "My style"
of File work.

This doesn't mean something cant be customized
and I have done some very involved file work before
extending through the entire length tang behind the
handle.

But for the most part the three types of file work shown
below is what I offer.

Yes.. if you aren't aware of it. All the file work
is done free hand.  I use no machinery, jigs or and other
fancy gadgets to do this.  All by hand.

My standard file work

My "Jimped" File worked Spine

and this is what I call "File worked Thumb Stops" 

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