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A Woodlore Student’s Handmade Knife

After attending our Fundamental Bushcraft course last year, Woodlore customer Stan Intihar had a go at making his very own knife for the first time, with great results:

Howdy,

Here are some pics of my completed knife and leather sheath; a carbon steel Enzo blade and desert ironwood handle with red liners:

Stan's hand-finished knife and leather sheath

Stan’s hand-finished knife and leather sheath

The desert ironwood handle complete with red liners

The desert ironwood handle complete with red liners

I used two excellent online tutorials and they turned our purdy good, I reckon. Leather stamping is quite addictive, too, I found out… as did my wife and kids!

A close-up of Stan's leather stamping

A close-up of Stan’s leather stamping

I’ve used the knife plenty of times already and love it.  Have also settled on soft rush being my favourite “go to” firesteel lighting tinder; that stuff is everywhere and is just brilliant at taking sparks.

All the best,

Stan

About

Woodlore, School of Wilderness Buchcraft was founded in 1983, by the British Bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears. Woodlore began as a relatively unknown company, offering a small selection of courses on bushcraft techniques. With Ray's ambition and perserverance, Woodlore has since grown into a world-renowned and highly respected school, offering in-depth courses on a wide range of bushcraft and survival subjects. In addition to training, Woodlore now also provides some of the finest outdoors equipment from around the world, carefully selected on the basis of our extensive experience.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 9:09 am and is filed under Bushcraft Kit, Customer posts.

9 Responses to “A Woodlore Student’s Handmade Knife” - most recent displayed first

  1. August 2nd, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    bill says:

    Good job! ;o))

  2. April 24th, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    Roger Howard says:

    That is a crackng Knife Stan.
    There’s nothing better than making your own knife is there.

  3. April 15th, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    Steve Hobbs says:

    cracking knife, looks good like the leatherwork

    Steve

  4. April 6th, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    Owen says:

    Your knife & sheath look great.

    What were the online tutorials that you used ?

  5. April 5th, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    Rogelio Luque Lora says:

    yeah that looks really good work. Well done and thanks for sharing!

  6. April 5th, 2012 at 5:22 pm

    Richard says:

    Fantastic,..it’s given me some inspiration for my knife. Thank you for sharing

  7. April 5th, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    Sean says:

    your first knife? that’s insane. Well done!

  8. April 5th, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    Adrian Page says:

    Thats not only a practical bushcraft knife, thats a work of art. Thanks for showing the pictures.

    Adrian

  9. April 5th, 2012 at 10:52 am

    dan bowkett says:

    Hi,

    That is really nice. Well done.

    Dan.

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