"Shivs, shanks and pigstickers and things too fierce to mention" Welcome to the new-and-improved, Blogger version of my old websi...

  This knife was a commissioned piece which I'd tried to make as close to the one in the photo I was given as possible, and with appar...

Being that this knife is the first in the list of "Custom Work", I'll line out my made-to-order protocol. If we've never ...

19thc This knife was commissioned to fit a particular sheath that the customer already possessed and is based on a very early Mexican Bowie....

19thc I've got to admit, I kind of guesstimated on this one, but I think I got close. The customer wanted a French and Indian War, Rifl...

19thc This was a recent commission for an old customer, one of my first customers as a matter of fact. It's a reproduction of a She...

For the past two hundred years, right up to end of the days of "wooden ships and iron men" fire aboard ship was a dreaded occurre...

19thc

19thc

ww2 These knives show other places as well but they're generally associated with the Middle East Commandos. They were small, elite uni...

Special Unit Z was a McAurthur-approved, branch-unit of the SOE (Special Operations Executive - the Commonwealth version of the OSS). Ac...

I offered this knife several years ago and no interest was shown - ever. This disappointed me since I had thought at the time, and still ...

ww2 Montana Power Co. Knives "We received from correspondent Steven Briggs a copy of the "Energizer" , a Montana Power Emp...