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John J from Taree South sent us a couple of photos of a pretty special knife.The blade is a Brisa Farmer with 80 mm blade length in carbon steel, polished to remove the heat treatment scale.Handle is in Teak and the bolster is a 5 peso coin.But the coolest part is the sheath; check out the saddle mounted left-hand draw pankake sheath!Very cool. And as John says, it is "ever ready".

Mark has taken up knife making as a hobby after early retirement, and has sent us a couple of snaps.The first one is a blade in random damascus of his own design, with handle in Juma Ivory Snake and polished brass.Mark even made some prawn skewers from off-cuts of the Random pattern damascus!The below one is his first, using a Fighter Bowie blade and adding the handle in antler and brass butt plate. A matching bottle opener is a nice tough, Mark also modified the guard to his design. …

David S from Wambion, NSW has sent us some great photos we wanted to share.EnZo Elver with with Curly Birch scales, using black spacers rather than the standard red and with 1/4" brass corby bolts, this came together really nice!The Elver is the mid-sized kit from Finnish brand Brisa EnZo, a small-game sized bushcrafter with thick leather sheath and strong blade in 01 Carbon steel and Scandi Grind.The EnZo Elver is available both as a kit like David used: https://creativeman.com.au/enzo-elver-kn …

Adam P from NSW have put together a custom Brisa EnZo Trapper Kit and sharing his steps on the process;A new knife for field work.The Enzo Trapper 95, flat grind in the ELMAX steel (RC 62) offered all the features I was looking for. Good size, awesome steel and well finished grind. Creative man was able to supply the knife blank, some Ivory Micarta scales, Corby Bolts and lanyard tube for assembly. Assembly started with taping the blade and cutting off where the scales started. Cutting edge m …

Garry Keown from Von Gruff Knives in NZ sent us a couple of snaps from his latest 2 blades.These are blades to a customer's specifications in stainless steel damascus. One is a full flat grind and the other is a sabre grind.If wanting to check out more of Garry's work or discuss a custom build, check out http://www.vongruffknives.com/ An interesting point with these blades were that the Ferro Chloride etch normally done did not create very strong results, so Garry resorted to 7 mins in …

Nice looking result from Nathan Toal here, in 1084 and red and black epoxy scales. He calls it the Dark Hunter, a very nice result with blued carbon steel blade.

Michael B did a knife making course with Wayne from Ironlord Forge, located at the mid-north coast of NSW.With a clear idea of what he wanted to design and make, Michael walked in with his raw materials from Creative Man and under the careful eye of Wayne Saunders made these stunning cleavers!We are loving the clear lines and the excellent finish. Thank you to Wayne and Michael for the photo!Wayne has been a full-time blacksmith and knife makers since 2003 can be contacted on IronlordForge. …

Ranid sent in a couple of photos of his custom Laplander.Using the long Lauri Laplander blade in 80CrV2 Carbon Steel, he had made a big chopper with comfortable looking Curly Birch handle and, brass bolster and mosaic pins.Love the finish of the handle, and that shape looks very comfortable.Good work, Ranid!

Scott T in Victoria has sent us a photo showing how his block of stabilised curly birch turned out. The blade is from an old file given a new lease on life, the guard is in polished brass.This may not be a secret, that we are quite fond of Curly Birch here at Creative Man, and stabilised CB is no exception! Stabilised wood has the added benefits of not absorbing moisture and being able to take a bit more abuse than raw wood handles. …

We love getting photos from completed knives and today we wanted to share one of them.The blade is the EnZo Chef 160 and the scales are from Red Mallee Burl, with mosaic pins and red spacers.Jon Day has done a really good job on this one, looks like it will be a kitchen favourite.