Couple of Carving Knives

Been some knife projects posted lately so I reached back into the archives and pulled these out so I could feel like part of the gang!

The first one is a small neck knife I made.  I love my Mora 106 knife but it's a little large and inconvenient to carry.  So, I bought a bare 106 blade and modified it to be thinner and shorter and reprofiled it a bit.  The first picture has a pencil outline showing the original blade size.

I ground it a little thinner as well.  It started a little under 1/8" and ended a little over 3/32"

Then I set onto handling it from a piece of Zircote.  I used a method I learned long ago of using a dowel to set the tang of hidden tang blades.

Then it was just a matter of shaping the handle to suit me.

Here it is next to my unmodified Mora 106.

It's been a couple years and it's become my go-to knife for carving and whittling.  Especially when I'm on the go.  I made the neck sheath from Kydex and a piece of chain I had.  It works fine but I eventually took the chain off because it's small enough to just stick in a pocket.  The sheath is certainly necessary for pocket carry though!

The second one is a hook knife from Deepwoods Ventures that I bought the blade for and handled.  I saw a blade somewhere I like where the handle segments were radiused and without any dividers so I tried to replicate that given the handle shape lent itself to that style.  I used a piece of spalted Birch and a piece of Cocobolo and cut mating radii so they mated together precisely and epoxied them together.  The segmented handle is purely cosmetic but it makes me smile when I grab the knife 😁  Sorry, I didn't take any in-process pictures on that one.

Thanks for looking!