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Knives for sale... Updated 26th January 2012

I'm very busy with commissions, so I haven't had time to finish a new knife for a while! In the meantime, though, you can check out this page, with work by Bob and other local craftspeople. More...

Tradional Sgian Dubh, by Bob Cleland

Traditional Sgian Dubh
This perfectly-finished piece is in a tradional sgian dubh style. More...
 

Classic Seax - £425 Buy Now

Classic Seax Knife for Sale
Seven and three-quarter inch blade of 1095 steel, olive wood and carved ebony handle. Hand-sewn leather suspension sheath in the traditional style, dyed to a complex ox-blood finish. More images...
 

Myrtle Handled Hunter - £275 Buy Now

Myrtle Handled Hunter
Eleven inches overall, six inch carbon steel blade, myrtle handle with copper pins. More...
 

Forge Special - Cord Wrapped Knife: SOLD

Cord Wrapped Knife

Forge specials are simple new knives, pretty much straight from the forge. Not fancy: just high-quality blades with minimal fittings, and therefore discounted prices. I'm having fun with my new gas forge, and I want to share that with you guys!

This one is nine inches overall, with a five inch, slim, blade, and a forge-finished handle wrapped in cord. Black welted pouch sheath. Click photo for larger image.

 

Black Sycamore Tanto - £375 Buy Now

Buy Traditional Tanto
Six and a half inch, 1095 blade with utsuri, quilted sycamore handle and sheath, with contrasting olive side-straps. More...

 

Merovingian Seax - £750 Buy Now

Merovingian Seax

Reproduction of a 7th century Continental seax, based primarily on the Nijmegen seax. Laminated steel blade, etched to show pattern. Yew handle, traditional suspension-style sheath with relief sculpted knot. More....

 

'Sam Bell' Dirk - £425 Buy Now

Sam Bell Dirk
Ten and three quarter inches overall, carved Swedish carbon steel blade. Sycamore handle, with engraved copper mounts and steel fittings, tooled cowhide sheath. More images...
 

Japanese Kwaiken - SOLD

Japanese Kwaiken
Nine inches overall. Sycamore sheath, Thuya Burl and Ebony handle. Heat finished copper habaki, hamon on 1095 steel blade. More images...
 

Scandinavian-Style Working Knife - £200 Buy Now

Scandi Knife for Sale
Four and a half inch blade of CS70 Swedish steel, full-tang Sycamore handle with an Ebony bolster. Comes with a hand-sewn, Scandianavian-style pouch sheath of chestnut-finished veg-tanned leather. More images...
 

Integral Tanto - £275 Buy Now

Integral Tanto for Sale
Thirteen and a half inches overall. The handle is a tanned ray-skin same over an integral steel core, overlaid with a wrap of khaki-green parachute cord, finished with several 'turks head' knots. The blade is seven and a half inch nagasa, shobu zukuri in 1086 steel, water quenched. It is double-edged, and the hamon lies close to the grind-line top and bottom. More images...
 

Curlicue Pocket Knife - £275 Buy Now

Forged Curlicue Pocket Knife for Sale
Three inch blade of heat-golden steel with hamon temper-line. Unique open-work handle of brass, heat-blued forged steel and ebony, file-worked on the spine. Hand-tooled, sculpted leather sheath. More...
 
Handmade Leather Sporran

Handmade Leather Sporran: SOLD - Please email if you'd like something similar (or made to your own specifications!)

Resist-dyed, hand-tooled Celtic knotwork patterns, suede lined, steel D-rings for own sporran-chain.

 

 

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