How a knife is made

How a knife is made

How a knife is made

How it's done

A Pictorial

Craig Barr Custom Billet

Premium Mammoth Tooth Scales

Campo de Cielo Meteorite slab for bolsters

Pattern transferred to steel

Profile cut with band saw

Surface ground and drilled for pins

Initial bevel

Taking the bevel up the blade

Final bevel established

Quick Etch to see pattern

After heat treating

2nd Grind to remove scale and true up the edge

Prepping the meteorite bolsters

Note oversized

Epoxy scales in place

Drilling scales for pins

Ready to put other side on and shape

Final result about 25 hours (a week) later

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