Customs and One Offs

This page is to showcase work done for custom orders, one off builds, and collaborative builds which are not regularly produced models in my product line. If you have any requests about a custom knife for yourself, please feel free to contact me.

Pricing quotes for custom designs and one offs can be provided on an individual basis. There are too many factors at play to estimate costs and post generalized pricing on the website. Pricing per blade for a custom piece will be less expensive if I am able to run a batch of 10 or more blades of the same design versus doing an individual one off knife because I am able to obtain significant discounts in materials in bulk as well as significantly decrease the amount of labor by running knives in batches. My makers costs on one offs can be 2-3 times more expensive in materials than an otherwise identical knife made in batches due to lack of discounts for larger materials orders, increased shipping costs per component of the blade, and increased costs for heat treating. It takes me 3-5 times the amount of time to do a single knife as a one off knife than it would for me to make an identical knife in a batch because I am unable to optimize my time spent in designing, layout of materials, setting up of tooling, etc over multiple blades. In addition to this, certain design features may require that I invest in additional tooling that is outside of my typical process to accommodate specific requests; sometimes this is quite affordable for me to do while other times it is cost prohibitive to do so,

Hunter Orange Chef and Filet/Boning Pair

These were made for a local hunter as a matched pair of chef and file/boning knives. I forgot to clean the buffing compound out of the lanyard hole on the filet before snapping a photo of these as I was out the door to meet him.

Elmax One Off Skinner

This pattern was made for James Brandenburg for use skinning big game animals in the backcountry. It has Elmax steel, tapered tang, micarta, and Loveless bolts and was a true performance driven build.

One Off Recurve Skinner Right Side

AEBL steel, hollow ground, Arizona desert ironwood scales, brass pins, and black liners

Custom Hunter Combo

AEBL steel, 4 1/8″ blade, hollow ground, tan canvas micarta scales, brass hardware

Leathercraft Knives Wood

AEB-L steel at 61 HRC. Stabilized reyed and spalted white oak over 1/8″ OD linen micarta liners and micarta pins are on the round knife. Stabilized curly and spalted maple with brass pins are on the chisel.

Crappie Filet AEBL & Shadetree DCB

6.5″ Crappie Filet in AEBL steel at 61 HRC with Drunken Coffee Bag micarta scales and natural canvas micarta pins.

Crappie Filet

6.5″ AEBL Filet. Bead blasted black canvas micarta over blue G10 liners with stainless pins.

Crappie Knife

This filet/boning knife has a 6.5″ blade length and is made with AEB-L at 61 HRC, convex grind, bead blasted canvas micarta scales with 1/8″ natural micarta pins. It should be just about right for crappie, smaller bass, and boning game meat out in the field or kitchen.

Kitchen Trio Right

AEB-L at 61 HRC, stabilized birdseye maple burl over forest green and white liners, mosaic pins

Kitchen Trio Spine

AEB-L at 61 HRC, stabilized birdseye maple burl over forest green and white liners, mosaic pins

Roman Metcalf Skinner

AEB-L steel at 61 HRC with bead blasted canvas micarta scales and stainless pins.

Roman Metcalf Skinner in Hand

AEB-L steel at 61 HRC with bead blasted canvas micarta scales and stainless pins.

Leathercraft Knives Micarta

AEB-L steel at 61 HRC. Black canvas micarta and brass pins on the round knife. Maroon linen micarta and carbon fiber pins on the chisel.

Tom’s Bird & Trout

Bird & Trout based off of my Small Game Hunter in Elmax steel, stabilized historic curly walnut from The Battle at Pea Ridge in the US Civil War, and mosaic pins.

Tom’s Bird & Trout Sheath

Bird & Trout based off of my Small Game Hunter in Elmax steel, stabilized historic curly walnut from The Battle at Pea Ridge in the US Civil War, and mosaic pins.

Chef Knife Repair

This J.A. Henckels chefs knife was brought to me by a neighbor who snapped the tip off while using the knife as a screwdriver. He asked for it to be repaired if possible so I reground the blade and resharpened it for him.

Sloyd Whittling Knife

This is a basic Sloyd whittling knife that I tossed together for myself to use for a carving project that I made from some cutoff Elmax scrap and curly cherry scrap.

Ozark Chopper

This was a limited 4-knife collaborative build that started with a Koster Bushmaster XL blank. I slightly modified the design and handle contours, finished the grinding, did the handle work, and made the sheaths.