Custom knife porn...

Good looking knives

If you have time to waste, post your favorites...

I don't even know how this thing operates...



These have a cool design

I don't know well how blood and intricately carved ivory go together...

For those that don't know the blades with the pattern is call damascus steel and is formed by hand folding and beating steel over and over to form patterns. It was also used for gun barrels before fluid steel...

Good lord there are some pieces of knife porn in that thing.

I used to troll the knife forums every now and then. Those guys get rid of knives 2 weeks after they buy them. Spend $2000 on a knife. Sell it for $500 two weeks later. You can easily get a very nice knife for a steal.


Bladeforums was where I used to hit up

There are some real talented folks making knives and some stupid money being spent on them.

I bought a George Herron knife a few years ago off a guy that was on hard times and needing cash. Knowing very little about knives the guy told me it was worth a lot of money and that he'd be back for it when he got ahead. Fast forward a few years and I'm still sitting on the knife and I havent seen the original owner in years. I posted it on a knife maker/collector forum and had offers in excess of $2,000 for it within an hour.

I ended up keeping the knife but was also introduced to Herron's protege named Wayne Hendrix and got several knives from him that I use regularly while hunting. A good custom knife blows most of the production knives out of the water. Unbelievably sharp and very durable...

No way I could own any if those. Me buying an ornate knife is like me buying an ornate hammer. I just couldn't get into it.