Garry Keown Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Seeing as I have a few knives to show on a semi regular basis I though I would just paste them in the one thread. This is the first pair. Big Game Hunters in4 3/4 in x .156 blades of 1095. Both have buffalo horn bolsters with one having walnut scales while the other has eucalyptus 7 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDT Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Very nice, I love how well you do the horn bolsters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted June 9, 2019 Author Share Posted June 9, 2019 Another Buffalo Skinner from 1095 with curve backed buff horn bolsters and walnut handles ready for final sharpening before heading off to Ohio 3 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Buffalo Skinner from 1095 with curve backed buff horn bolsters and walnut handles ready for final sharpening before heading off to Ohio
Garry Keown Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 A Safari Knife with brass and buffalo horn on the 1095 blade ready for an edge and shipping off to Missouri. 3 1 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 I had a tag end of 1075 so decided to make a pattern for a camp knife/butcher knife. I had made myself one a long time back with a 8 1/2 inch blade for dicing meat etc when breaking down an animal but found it was more blade than I needed so thought this one with a 5 1/5 in blade would be more user friendly I had a bowie marked out as well so had the two of them to do Ground and ready for heat treat I wanted to try for a hamon so mixed up some very fine potters clay (for slip mix usually) with some wood ash and applied it to the blade. I know in hindsight that I had way too much on there which lead to the less than successfull hamon but at least there is the showing of one on the camp knife. The bowie not so much For the handle on the camp/butcher knife I started with a copper bolster and added black paper micarta, some blue G10 and another blaco paper micarta spacer before finishing with the walnut handle 4 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDT Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Very nice, it looks like an ideal knife to take on a hunt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, MikeDT said: Very nice, it looks like an ideal knife to take on a hunt! It will be more use at home Mike as I have much smaller knives for hunting needs. This will be used mainly for when the meat is boned out and needs to be diced either for stews or to go into ground meat. Edited June 26, 2019 by Garry Keown Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 That blue G10 spacer really pops. I like it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clint c Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Liking the practical designs and clean execution, nicely done! Clint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted July 22, 2019 Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 These are three I did for a repeat customer with his supplied wood walnut, rosewood and olivewood with brass on .156 1095 scandi ground blade. I forgot to take pics before sending them off so coppied the pic he posted on the forum when he recieved them this week. 2 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted August 5, 2019 Author Share Posted August 5, 2019 (edited) The knives the sheaths were hot waaxed this morning for. Pig sticker with fiddle back eucalyptus, Hunter Skinner and Light Hunter with Accacia in the first pic and a pair of Field scalpels with Buffalo horn in the second Edited August 5, 2019 by Garry Keown 4 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted August 14, 2019 Author Share Posted August 14, 2019 And a 7 1/2 inch 12C27 chef knife with curly macro 3 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles dP Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Wow. That wood is something else. Not heard of it before. "The way we win matters" (Ender Wiggins) Orson Scott Card Nos, qui libertate donati sumus, nes cimus quid constet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted August 14, 2019 Author Share Posted August 14, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, Charles du Preez said: Wow. That wood is something else. Not heard of it before. Macrocarpa is also known as Monterey Cypres Charles. I have quite a bit of it stabilised and more in board form waiting to be done. Edited August 14, 2019 by Garry Keown Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted August 21, 2019 Author Share Posted August 21, 2019 A couple of days grinding and handsanding with just 4 left to do to get tham allready for handles.There are blades of 1084, 1095 12C27 and stainless damascus in this lot. Damascus blades ready for the etch The bottom three are for Art, Dave and Yancey (friends/repeat customers from another forum). The top one and the center one are a hybrid design that Yancey and I came up with based off the bushcraft hunter but with a finer flat ground blade 4 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 These three damascus blades have the handles on and are in the clamps for the night under the anti freeze light. top is copper and stabilised spalted eucalyptus on hybrid design center is hunter with ebony with stabilised spalted eucalyptus bottom is brass and buffalo horn with blue liners for three 1084 blades with buffalo horn bosters ready for pins and epoxy I did another two damascus blades but didn't get a pic. One having buffalo horn bolster that will have eucalyptus handles and the other with stainless steel will have desert ironwood handles 1 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Myshkoff Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 The subtleties of design and geometry are over the top. These knives just demand to be used and enjoyed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 Thanks John. Will get some finished pics up this afternoon before I pack them for shipping. Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 These five ready to ship. Raindrop stainless damascus. #1 is stabilised spalted eucalyptus with carbon fiber pins over copper curve backed bolster. #2 is Buffalo horn with blue liners over brass curve backed bolster. #3 is stabilsed spalted eucalyptus over ebony with carbon fiber pins. #4 is pig sticker with accacia over 1095 HC blade and #5 is Hunter kinner with accacia over 1084 HC blade 1 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Todays handIe finishing #1 is the hybrid hunter with Desert Ironwood over stainIess on the random pattern stainIess damascus bIade. #2 is a Hunter Skinner with cherry burI over buffaIo horn boIster on the random pattern damascus bIade. #3 is the Hybrid hunter with eucaIyptus over buff horn on the 1084 bIade. #4 is the Iight hunter with Ieopardwood over buff horn on the 1084 bIade. #5 is the hunter skinner with macrocarpa over buff horn on the 1084 bIade. # 6 & 7 are the fishing set with bIack paper micarta over bIaze Iiners on the 12C27 bIades. 1 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted September 7, 2019 Author Share Posted September 7, 2019 I am now offering my (wood only at this stage) knife handles with the brass or nickle silver disc inlet for personalised initials etc by the customer 2 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Good idea! For a small extra charge, of course. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 Have some leatherwork ahead of me to get sheaths doen for this lot finished today. A Light Hunter (1084) and a Lion knife (1095) with giraffe bone fixed with stainless pins. An order for some Safari knives with giraffe bone on 1095 with titabium pins. There is another one to finish shaping the handles but that will join the group tomorrow. A Mini Skinner in 1084 with spalted eucalyptus over curve backed buff horn bolsters with brass pins 2 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 And the new design knives for myself. The slaughterman with stainless 3 pin copper bolster and ebony handles with cpper pins on the 1084 blade. The slicer is for when I have broken down an animal and want to dice the boned out meat. It has 3 brass pins in the copper bolster with copper pins in the ebony handles on the 12C27 stainless blade. And this with giraffe bone handles and titanium pins with 3 SS pins in the curve backed buff horn bolster on the 1095 blade. 2 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 Good stuff, Garry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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