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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. …

Got some photos this week from both Brett M and PJ Hunt, each took a piece of Icy Blue Acrylic and did something special with it.PJ Hunt used it to make a great kitchen paring knife, a Japanese stainless steel damascus blade and the acrylic really stands out;Brett used the same starting handle material but did something quite different. Going for a US style Fighter Bowie, the acrylic shows up the hidden tang for a bit of a steampunk twist;Fun to see two well made knives using the same material a …