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
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Customized kephart fisher with 2 Sheaths

A recent custom order is posted below.

This is one of my kephart fishers with a blade
and handle that were customized to be a bit
smaller than I normally make.

The handle is black walnut with a lanyard
hole.

Two sheaths have been hand stitched.

One is one of my square pocket sheaths
the other is a horizontal, both in an antiqued
dark brown.

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

A custom Nessmuk Knife

This week I am posting a custom neesmuk knife set
I recently completed.

The knife has a beautiful tiger maple handle with
brass pins and the blade has my pattern and patina
aged finish.

For the set a matching ferro rod was made and the
sheath is a dangler that was hand stitched and
made with a loop to hold the ferro rod.

All of my Sheaths are individually hand cut without a template from veg tan leather.

They are hand stitched and antiqued one at a time.

Thank you 

Matt

ML knives

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A Set of custom Straight Back Knives for woodsman and Lovers of vintage Work

This weeks post I have a set of custom order Straight back
style knives to show you.

These were both made with blades about 5 inches in
length and have a beautiful patina on the blades.

The handles have a slight coffin style shape with brass
pins and brass rear lined lanyard hole.  These handles
were also lightly aged and are tiger maple.

Both of the sheath were hand stitched and are a darker
brown color.

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

Vintage knife Work From the Past by Matt Lesniewski

I was recently scanning old photos from years of making knives
for a possible book, and thought I would share this one with you.

This knife must have been made at least 11 years ago maybe longer
and this is the only photo I can find of it at the moment.
If I can find more in the future I will post them.

The blade shape is very unique and one that will lend itself
to many uses.  You can see the tip almost looks like a
butcher tip but at a smaller size and there is a nice
belly to the blade.

I would say the overall blade length being about 3 1/2"
with lots of pattern and patina aging.

The handle is curly maple with some light figure
with a couple brass pins.

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