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  1. dkabat579

    My Frosts 106 gets a new sheath

    My Frosts 106 was the first non-kitchen knife I ever bought (not counting my Swiss Army Knife) and it still sees almost daily wood-carving use. The sheath I'd made for it, however, left a lot to be desired to I decided to make a new one and give my dutiful little knife the accessory it deserves...
  2. dkabat579

    New woods knife

    I've made a couple of knives before but none of them had really turned out that well. I wanted something I could carry around with me in the woods for carving on hikes. The blade is a 95mm Polar set in curly birch with a brass bolster and the sheath has a pine liner I carved out of some old...
  3. dkabat579

    A second kuksa, and this time no cracks

    I worked out another kuksa, this time taking into consideration some of my mistakes from my first. I carved this one in about half the time to minimize drying and checking and the walls are much thinner and more uniform (about 4mm all around). The finish is straight off the knife and it's had a...
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    My first kuksa

    This is my first post here, so I thought I'd dive right in and show my kuksa with a mini-tutorial. I made a number of mistakes with it but learned a huge amount. I wanted to make it from a burl but we don't get many of those on our trees (chalk it up to fairly mild weather, I guess). I ended...