Custom, Hand forged Working Knives
A hand forged, differentially tempered D2 steel dropped point blade. With a slight belly, flat ground from the 4mm, 3/16 spine, full hollow ground tang and balanced at the guard this 4 1/2 inch long blade is tough. We used a piece of a processor saw bar to create the guard and filled the chain slot with bronze. Copper and cocobollo inserts with black walnut scales secured with 5 stainless threaded pins and a threaded copper lanyard insert make up this handle. The braided lanyard includes a handmade antler bead woven into it. Balanced and comfortable
with a brilliant edge that lasts.The scabbard is made
from 8 oz leather, hand stitched, handtooled and custom fit.
Hooded or open deep sheaths.
Longer lanyards for security instead of ties.
Price: $855
A bush survival knife. The Boar has a 5 1/2" handle, 1/4 " thick spine. Hand forged from circular 6 foot x 5/16 inch headsaw steel and differentially tempered. It holds an exceptional edge. Balanced at the brass guard, the guard is brazed and pinned. Brass, deer antler and copper inserts, moose antler scales held with 1/4" threaded and peened brass pins make up the handle. The sheath is handmade, tooled and stitched by hand. A leg tie is provided on sheath.
A strong and tough knife.
Price, 8" $1100
10" $1300
Item # HK41
This utility knife has attitude. A small tough knife with a 3.5mm thick spine, 3" full tang blades and a 4" moose antler handle. Hand forged D2 high carbon steel, full flat grind with a convex honing edge at 22 degrees. It will hold a hair popping edge. It is a reliable tool for camping, hiking, hunting, fishing, cutting rope and a fine carving knife.
Contact us and we will make a knife for you.
Starting at $575
Fine utility knives
The Boar Knife
Handmade Fillet Knives
Working with a customers.
On the left is a curly maple wood with a moose antler pommel handle drilled for a lanyard with a copper lanyard insert, brass guard, 20cm (8 inch) blade, full tang and made from steel we recover. Bandsaw steel has incredible tensile strength, flexability, keeps a razor edge much longer than stainless steel and is easy to sharpen. It carries our lifetime guarantee.
This knife is $900
Heavy duty cleavers. Hardened and differentially tempered high carbon
lumber mill saw blade steel. A 7, 8, 9", ... razor sharp cutting edge that holds,3/16 or 1/4" spine, full tang with a 5" moose antler handle. The saw teeth make a great meat tenderizer. We set them in apple wood knot blocks. This cleaver is like no other. A beautiful tool to use. For hunters, butchers and cooks.
Very unique. Starting at $975.
All of our knives come with a custom fit, 8 to 10 oz hand made, hand stitched leather sheath and a lifetime guarantee. All prices are in Canadian dollars.
Our catalogue is a reference. If you see a knife or a combination you like we'll custom make it for you, same price. Contact us. All prices are in Canadian dollars.
Handmade, High Carbon Bushcraft & Hunting Knives from British Columbia, Canada.
Tools and Knives
CARIBOO BLADES
Crown Camp knife
We make all the edge tools and knives traditional and sustainable ways, to last generations. All the quality steel we recover. We hand forge and differentially temper each blade, custom make and handstitch our scabbards. Each is one of a kind. We live off the grid in isolation on the edge of the Chilcotin Plateau in the boreal forest of B.C. and use the tools we make. Tried, true and tested. All Cariboo Blades knives carry a lifetime guarantee.
Juniper Deer Knife
Maple Tiger
Hand forged much the same as the Wiseman from headsaw steel . A 7" long (17.5), flat ground blade from the 4. 5mm thick spine. Balanced at the guard with a hollow ground full tang. The wood scales are secured with 1/8" diameter stainless threaded pins. Copper inserts, a piece of log processor bar
steel and bronze guard is welded to the tang.
The full length of the steel is differentially
tempered to keep a superb strong edge
while toughening the blade, adding tensile
strength. A superb hunting knife for larger
game.
Item # HK02 Starting at $875.
LIFETIME GUARANTEE
We guarantee your complete satisfaction with the materials and workmanship on all our tools and knives. All our knives can be sent to us to be sharpened. The sharpening is on us.
"The Saw tooth Cleavers"
Kirsten knife
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Mountain Caribou
-Bush Knife
Fillet knife that is on the stiffer side. A hard razor edge. Made for larger fish like salmon and halibut. It will slice through bones without any problem and keep its razor edge. It has an 11" (27.5 cm) differentially tempered L6 blade set into a moose antler handle with copper and antler inserts and a copper guard.
These smaller knives are great utility, nice fishing, caping and skinning knives. The sheaths are designed to hang around your neck or on your belt, a "Neck Knife". Always handy and out of the way. We hardened and differentially tempered L6 or D2 quality carbon steel. It holds an exceptional edge. The moose antler point handle is held with threaded brass pins. We can braid leather for
sure grip on your handle if you'd like.
The blades are 1 1/2" - 2" long with a dropped point.
Custom Cleavers
Hunting Sets
The Moose Knife
Handmade Ulus
Kootenai
The Wiseman Bushcraft Knife
A Mountain Man/Nessmuk
2 metre (6') 5/16" thick headsaw blade , we cut our shape and put it in the forge. The blade is hammered by hand in directed blows creating a bevel from spine to edge. A belly is hammered and flared into the blade. The blade is forged from the handle 5 mm thick to the tip at 1.5 mm (1/16"). The tang is hammered into an hour glass shape creating a thickness growing into the blade and at the butt.
After the forging is done the tang is then hollow ground for perfect balance. The final step is differentially tempering the spine. Combined with this fine steel this step creates an edge that performs and stays razor sharp, toughness in the steel that will allow you to hit the spine like a froe to split wood, draw the knife, dig holes, pry and perform many other chores.
When the blade is finished the scales are shaped to fit the inside curves of the hollow ground tang then screwed together with threaded pins. We can use stainless or brass pins.
The steel we recover and forge into blades is both a very tough and a very strong steel. The handforging, hardening and tempering process,
This process from the beginning is challenging. Dealing with
a 200 kg blade with teeth. We have worked with this
quality steel for 12 years.
5 mm, (1/4inch thick) spine, 3/4 tapered blade, 15 cm (6") hand forged L6 steel, full thinned out hollow ground tang for balance, . Fit with apple wood scales set with threaded pins, peened, a threaded copper lanyard insert, peened, and moose antler butt pinned to the tang of the 5 1/2" handle. It is tough.
Braided lanyards and one handed locking lanyards for absolute security are optional.
Starting at $690
High carbon M-42 steel fillet knives. 7 inches long blade 1/32 of an inch thick and differentially tempered. Brass guard and an antler crown handle. The tang is inserted 3" into the antler and then pinned with threaded stainless or brass pins. Great flex in this steel.
It comes with a full handmade, tooled and handstitched sheath designed and made by Aki. Every knife is special and very unique.
Starting at $675
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My personal carry. Handforged from high carbon 72" headsaw steel. The blade is 7" long, 1/4" thick at the spine, and tapers down to a razor edge. A hollow ground full tang set into a unique antler crown and a walnut hump. Six stainless steel threaded pins hold the scales. The bolster is handforged copper and brass, pinned and brazed to the tang. It has copper and antler inserts. This knife is tough and was built as a heavy duty working knife. Hardened and differentially tempered to keep an exceptional edge. The overall length is 11 and 3/4".
We used this knife and built a 10 x 20' greenhouse from fir saplings, peeled and notched, batoning, drawing and chopping. When we were finished it still had a razor edge. We've gutted, skinned and quartered a few moose with this knife so far and it has performed exceptionally. We can make you one-of-a-kind bush knive with this same proven blade.
The scabbard is handmade and handstitched
out of saddle grade 8 oz.
by artisan Aki Yamamoto Starting at, $1200
For 13 years we've been powered by the sun.
We make our blades from recovered lumber mill quality steel.
We make a variety of custom made Ulus. Indispensable kitchen tools, hunting, bushcraft and camping tools in a Canadian ulu single stem style.
We recover Lumber mill bandsaw steel, L6 and 15N20, for the blades .
Hardened and differentially tempered for a razor edge that holds and toughness.
Watch your fingers.
Please view our Ulu page.
Moose point
Neck Knives
Starting at $425
Shaped as a spearpoint. Handforged and differentially tempered, 5mm spine, 4 3/4 inch long blade. The tang is full and hollow ground for balance. The bevels are full and flat with a small convex secondary bevel. The brass guard is brazed and pinned in place. Antler and copper inserts with tiger maple wood scales pinned with threaded brass make up the handle. The copper lanyard insert is threaded and screwed through the tang securing a moose antler butt. This knife is strong, tough and keeps a strong, exceptional edge.
A handstitched 8 oz. leather
sheath is designed and handmade
by Aki Yamamoto
Item # HK22 Price $790
Crown Fillet
Halibut Fillet
The two styles are handforged from saw blade steel. Full tang, 3.5mm spine, flat ground with a convex secondary bevel. Differentially tempered and they hold strong keen edges.
A offset handle and a knuckle shaped spine on the Moore and an arched spine on the Gwaii. Moose antler scales with threaded pins, a piece of log processor bar guard with the chain slot filled with bronze.
Both knives can be built with a variety of design features. Deep sheaths, lanyards, longer or shorter blades.
Item # HK43
5" blade price, $650.
6" blade price, $750.
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10 inch blade
8 inch blade
Chilcotin Boning Knife
For your field kit or kitchen.
The full tang 6" blade is made from lumbermill L6 bandsaw blade steel. The first has a 1/8" spine. The second muscle boning knife has a 3/16" spine. Hardened and differentially tempered to keep a razor edge and toughening the spine.
We used spalted applewood scales and walnut for the second. Both have stainless steel threaded pins to secure the wood scales.
The guard is a piece of processor bar with a thin section of copper shim brazed to it. We enveloped the guard in brass then ground out its shape.
The sheath is made from 8 oz leather, custom fit, hand stitched and reinforced with a welt and rivets.
Price starting at $565
All our knives, sheaths and images are original designs.
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Gwaii Buck and Moore Knives
Moore Knife
Gwaii Buck
5 inch
6 inch
8 inch
5 inch
8 inch
Horseman's Knife
- for riding
We'll build your sheath with our riding knife that can attach securely to your billet, sit comfortably on a 60 degree angle attached to your belt or be ready and slipped on your suspenders. By golly, we'll build your sheath with all three options if you want.
This knife, our Kirsten design, is a utility knife has attitude. A small tough knife with a 3.5mm thick spine, 3" full tang blades and a 4" moose antler handle. Hand forged D2 high carbon steel, full flat grind with a convex honing edge at 22 degrees. It will hold a hair popping edge. It is a reliable tool for camping, hiking, hunting, fishing, cutting rope and a fine carving knife.
The Kirsten fits on your belt at 60 degrees for a comfortable cross draw, on your suspenders or on your billet.
Hand forged from cut off saw steel . A 7" long (17.5), flat ground blade with a 5mm thick spine.
The handle is an antler crown inserted 4/5 and secured with 1/8" diameter stainless threaded pins.. Copper inserts, a piece of log processor bar steel and |copper is
the guard and it's welded to the tang.
The full length of the steel is differentially tempered to keep a superb strong edge while toughening the blade, adding tensile strength.
It fits on your belt or your billet.
Fillet knives starting at $500.
