Today was the Asher Douglas
Well, wellā¦ I didnāt realize Asher Knives produced a new model. Iād not seen the Douglas before. Nice! Reminds me of the Centri, with that long groove. Checked out their siteā¦ and wow, everything is sold out. I wonder if this company is preparing to retire the business? I have two of the Nomad knives with S35VN blades. Really terrific action on them, with bronze phosphor washers.
Thereās some nomads dropping this week according to Instagram, and Spiroās are coming
I think they just changed up the business model and arenāt carryt a lot of stock
My faithful companion for almost a year now, Endura K390.
Thanks. I donāt follow Asher on Instagram so Iād never have known. I love the Nomad. Itās by far one of the smoothest operating folders I haveā¦ a little plain, somewhat reminiscent of a Ganzo, but better. So much better.
A vintage K55K given to me by my dad 20 years ago.
Been wearing my 2nd made 5ā CPM-3V in a Kryptek Highlands cordura pattern kydex sheath. Mondo sharp and stout in spades. The scales are darker than Iād intended, Mesquite with a goldish band of burl. Pins are Titanium of course. 
Iāve completed 6 knives, have 5 ready to send out to heat treat. Got stopped temporarily by health issues. Aggravating. It is what it is.
Contemplating a couple that are challenging, a Kris and a folder. Weāll see.
^ VERY nice work there, Dale! 
Thank you. Work is the key word there! Just spent a total of 5 hours polishing the blade. ( glutton for punishment!)
Get well Dale! And keep making knives
Not EDCing it today (I stick to folders for EDC) and not budget either, just showing off:
I bought an Esee Xancudo fixed blade because I wanted a small fixed blade for camping and this knife seemed lovely to me. Apart from that I like the shape and the styling with the hole, it hits all my boxes: small size, non-agressive drop point blade, flat grind, tough enough premium stainless steel, great ergonomics.
But I bought it with the intention to die the scales because the flashy black-orange appearance is too much for my taste. I used RIT Die-More in Racing Red with a littlebit Midnight Navy. The colour turned out very nice, a sort of chestnut reddish brown. Now the scales are not screaming at me while still having the cool colour pattern.
Here is the colour when stock (not my pic):
Here is my colour:
That red looks great!
Way better than the original orange. 
Nice Jos, did you have to boil it in the dye to get it to take? Iāve found in the past that quality G10 is impervious to chemical penetration.
For my 60th birthday I picked up a Carbon Fiber S90V Benchmade Bugout. Swapped the blue anodized Aluminum bits to Titanium and used Ti hardware.
Kinda funny, got it sharpened to a mirror polished scalpel-like edge then cut my finger with it! After all the tinkering Iāve done with knives, making knives even, I finally got myself on a self gifted birthday present!
Yes, cleaned the knife handle with water/soap/brush, took water+lotsofsalt+die to the boil in a small pan, poured the die-mixture in a high tea glass and stirred the knife with handle down in the glass until a desired colour, then rinsed. It took the die pretty fast, less than 30 seconds.
It is possible that the colour will start wearing off over time but I have not seen that happen yet with my other died knife scales, RIT-died colours are pretty persistent. For fun I died the plastic cap of a water bottle red some time ago, it took the die less well than G10 and also it started disappearing in the dishwasher. So maybe RIT-die does not like dishwashers very well, but I guess that my knives do not either.
Nice bugout!
To be honest, things have changed a lot since I tried to dye G10. Back in the 90ās my gunsmith buddy went to work in a machine shop that specialized in Titanium joint replacements. He gave me a raw ( greenish) piece of 3/4ā thick G10 that was meant to be used as the base for the bone cutting saws , someone messed up the threaded hole placements and it was being trashed. So this was a high end piece of G10, fiberglass and epoxy cured in a high pressure vacuum.
As I understand it, most of todays G10, or knife scale product, is made with an acrylic resin. That may well be the reason. I made grip panels for a Ruger Vaquero .45 Colt back in the mid 90ās that refused to take any stain at all, so green they stayed!
The rit dyemore products are designed for synthetic fibers and work great on g10
Happy Birthday
stoned blade and carbon scales look great together
looks sharpā¦
sorry for the cutā¦
hope it heals quickly
I had made a 6.25ā Chefās knife that just really struck my fancy, wanted a slightly smaller variation to carry. So yesterday I redrew it and cut one out, ground the bevels and cleaned it up. Both of these are ready for heat treat. The new one, my 12th, is 5.125ā blade length also in MagnaCut steel at .215ā thick. Thinking about using 8mm thick Titanium sheet for scales to make an all metal EDC. Thick enough to allow some nice contouring.
Itāll be awhile before either of these gets finished. Heat treat seems to be a 6-8 week turnaround. Hope I can hold out and get a last knife design ready before shipping these out, have 6 ready and one more blank of MagnaCut. Have a big decision to make about a recommended hip replacement. Always something.
Do you sell knives? Have a website? Instagram?
Ah, noā¦ just trying to stay busy. Itās a hobby kind of thing, like flashlights. 
Build one or two to tinker around and prove to myself I can.