The whole this adventure started at the very beginning of 2006 year. Looking at some knifes in Internet, I asked myself: "Do you think you can create something like this' Michael?" The answer is obvious. So I took a cheep Chinese kitchen knife, a beech tree branch and there it is. The very first knife in my life...
By the way, my wife is still looking for her leather handbag.

The first attempt wasn't much inspiring, so I tried again. The same materials, but with turquoise inlay and the sharp side of the blade is bitten very slightly with acid. The rest of it is made mat by hand.

Blade of Chinese kitchen knife, handle of ash tree.

Blade of Chinese kitchen knife. Handle of walnut tree,leather, white polymer and melhior inlay.

After all the exercises with Chinese material I decided to find some more serious steel. 4x13 rust-free seem to be the best. So I bought a lot of it. But this steel has a little problem. The temperature of hardening is over 1050 degree C. This led me to a furnace.

The first knife 4x13 is with half polished, half chemically matted blade. The handle is bone, horn, wood combination with melhior inlay and white polymer. The scabbard is from walnut tree.