[Dustin R. Reagan]

I recently finished, and gave as gifts, these three knives.

The seax is hand forged from 9260. The handle is of bone and horn. The whole thing was done with hand tools (well, ok, i admit i did use an angle grinder a bit to knock off the forge scale). The blade is actually quite thick, with a reinforced point.

The hunting knife is of O1 and was given a rough, etched finish. The handle scales are horn, with nickel silver guard and rivets.

The kitchen/utility knife is of W1, with a horn and nickel silver handle. It has been used a bit, so it has started to develop a bit of a patina.

As you can tell, i really like working with horn...it's a wonderful handle material.

[Bruno Giordan]

Quite nice handles. I like horn a lot , fine choice.

Alas it seems to be quite uncommon to find here.

[David McElrea]

Hi Dustin,

Nice work. Can you say a bit about the kind of bone you used for the seax hilt? I tried to use a bit of shin bone (cow) for a hilt recently but it turned out to be rather more hollow than I had anticipated.

Thanks,
David

[Doug Lester]

Nice work, and having make knives with files and oil stones, I do mean work. You might try soaking your blades in white vinager overnight and giving them a scrub with a wire brush or steel wool to get the fire scale off. Those knives show a lot of good effort.

[Dustin R. Reagan]