Featured Work
This page features some of my newest and most special projects. Creme de la forge is not an expression, but if it were, it would apply here.
Graduate with Osage
Graduate with Osage
Hand forged from 1084 tool steel, this a beautiful tool made to last. The five inch blade is flat ground with a convex edge for efficient cutting and durabiity. The nickel silver guard is silver soldered to the blade as well as through pinned for a lifetime of hard use. The handle is local Iowan Osage Orange treated with an aquafortis acid stain to enhance the warm honey tone of this incredibly tough wood. The handle has black fiber liners and unique vine filework runs up the spine of the blade itself. The handle scales are secured by two loveless bolts and seven brass pins in addition to a nickel silver lanyard tube (and some 125,000 psi epoxy). Comes complete with a matching oiled leather sheath. Tough, beautiful and unique.
The Graduate is a model designed for a young outdoors person heading out into the wild world. An all around outdoor tool designed to last a lifetime on the trail. A lot of things change in this world, but you will always need a good knife. Whether for yourself, or as a gift for a son or daughter, this is a beautiful and unique heirloom tool that you can be proud to give or own and pass along.