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Custom Folding Knife with Elk Naturally Shed Antler Handle

Project by Mark A. DeCou posted 567 days ago 1279 views 0 times favorited 9 comments Add to Favorites Watch
Custom Folding Knife with Elk Naturally Shed Antler Handle
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This folding knife is “SOLD”, but I can build another one.

email: mark@decoustudio.com

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Scrimshaw Ready:
This Knife has a rear section cap that is ready for Scrimshaw Artwork. If you contact me before I put the artwork on it, I can customize it to whatever artwork, or lettering you would like to have.

Specifications:
Handle: Elk Shed Antler, turquoise, synthetic ivory
Bolster: Nickel-Silver
Locking Blade: 3/4” wide, 2-3/4” Cutting Edge, 4-1/8” closed, 7-1/8” Open, 6A Stainless Steel

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What is ”Scrimshaw” you say?
Go to this blog, for a thorough discussion and examples of my past work:

A Scrimshaw Art Journey

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If you like knives, here are some other LJ project postings of knives I have built:

Damascus Steel Hunting Knives:
  1. Large Damascus Steel Blade Custom Knife with Antler, Turquoise and Brass
  2. Custom Hunting Knife with Elk Shed Antler Handle, Ivory, Scrimshaw, and Hand-forged Damascus Blade
  3. Custom Knife with Damascus Steel Blade & Whitetail Deer Shed Antler
  4. Custom Art Knives, set of three with Damascus Steel Blades and Scrimshaw artwork
Custom Steak Knife Sets:
  1. Shed Elk Antler Handled Steak Knives with Stainless Damascus Blades; Natural Edge Walnut Display Box
  2. Deer Shed Antler Handled Steak Knives; Scrimshaw, Ivory, Turquoise, & Stainless Steel Damascus
Folding Knives:
  1. Custom Folding Knife with Zebra Wood, Abalone, and Scrimshaw Ready
  2. Custom Folding Knife: Elk Antler Handle, Turquoise Stone, Abalone, Natutical Scrimshaw Artwork
  3. Custom Folding Knife with Elk Naturally Shed Antler Handle
Stainless Steel Hunting Knives:
  1. Commemorative Bowie Knife with Whitetail Deer Shed Antler Handle for a Retiring Navy Seal Veteran
  2. A Young Soldier's Commemorative Hunting Knife, with Elk Antler Handle and Scrimshaw Artwork
  3. Custom Hunting Knife with Elk Naturally Shed Antler Handle
  4. Custom Deep Cut Skinner Hunting Knife with Elk Naturally Shed Antler Handle
  5. Skinning Knife, with Gut Hook, Elk Natural Shed Antler Handle
  6. Custom Knife; Frontier Bowie with Elk Naturally Shed Antler Handle

Here is my website page with knives:
Mark DeCou Studio Knife Page Website

Still Want to See more of my work?

Start with each of these links, and they will take you to other organized lists of my other niche products:

  1. Custom Art-Furniture Pieces
  2. Custom Walking Canes and Walking Sticks
  3. Artisan Hat Making Tools

(Note: All photos, project design, and text is protected by copyright 2007 by the author M.A. DeCou, all rights reserved, no unauthorized use of this material in whole, or part is allowed without expressed written permission.)

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com


9 comments so far

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GaryK

9497 posts in 866 days


posted 567 days ago

That’s one nice looking knife!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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jockmike2

7222 posts in 1125 days


posted 567 days ago

Another beaut. Mark. Very nice work. mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

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trifern

7890 posts in 645 days


posted 567 days ago

Very cool. I like the turquoise.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

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Scott Bryan

20061 posts in 700 days


posted 567 days ago

Mark,

This is a beautiful knife. The antler handle adds a unique element to the knife.

Thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

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Karson

25271 posts in 1279 days


posted 567 days ago

Mark fantastic job.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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gator9t9

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posted 567 days ago

great job Mark ….oh yes …

-- Mike in Bonney Lake " If you are real real real good your whole life, You 'll be buried in a curly maple coffin when you die."

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Lee A. Jesberger

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posted 567 days ago

Mark;

I love it! I think you need to create a catalog, (even if it’s an online catalog), of your numerous pieces, as they’re quite beautiful and definitely unique.

I would suspect if promoted enough it would fill in your slow spots very well.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

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DAN

6396 posts in 861 days


posted 566 days ago

great posting MARK

I like your presentation.

Very fine work.

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

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Mark A. DeCou

1533 posts in 1284 days


posted 555 days ago

The slow spots seemed to have been filled lately. Now, I’m working long hours trying to keep on top of what I said I would get done. My biggest hurdles have always been finding enough money per hour on a project to pay the bills that came in during the time I was working on something. Bidding correctly is my biggest hurdle.

I’ve never run out of work completely. Last fall, there were a few tense times when the end of one project was nearing, with nothing in line coming after it. But, then something always showed up just in time.

I could tell more about how that happens, but that would take me into the danger zone of the new posting rules.

Oh, yea, another aspect of my work is that there aren’t copies of anything. Doing a catalog makes people think that this stuff is sitting on a shelf. It is all made one-at-a-time, one-of-a-kind. In fact, the more something is “new” to me, the more creative and fun it is for me. The most a catalog of my work would be is a list of things that could give an idea to someone about something else I could build. Like taking things they like in a knife handle and getting a cane handle done the same way. I am not looking to do repetitive work, not the type of legacy I want to leave.

Each knife and cane, and such get a unique serial number, not a catalog number. There are websites already that have ordering codes for imported factory, made walking canes for instance. This works for some people, as they can wave at the other people at Wal-mart that have the same cane. I’m looking for those unique folks that want to be the only one that has the cane they are carrying. It’s not the best business plan for a cultural mindset in the industrial-age, and the get-it-cheap-by-abusing-foreign-craftsmen era but it is who I am, so that’s what I’m doing. There are enough people asking for my work to keep me busy at this point.

thanks,
M

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

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