Custom Handmade Knives
Bushcraft Survival Knives, since 1997
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A robust handmade survival/ bushcraft knife that won’t fail. 7 inch full tang fixed blade, 8mm spine, steel pommel for hammering and smashing welded to the tang.
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Tough, wear resistant carbon steel. Molybdenum, nickel, chromium steel. Ideal for survival knives.
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Hardened with clay protecting the spine. With the edge protected, the blade is differentially tempered with a torch. The edge is then tempered in an oven. Strength while the rest of the blade and tang are tough.
Wilderness Survival Knives
All the components of the knife are made, fashioned and designed by us. They come with a lifetime guarantee on craftsmanship and materials.
Custom Made
Handmade wilderness survival knife
A second lanyard grows from the back of the sheath and loops over the butt of the knife securing it in its sheath. The firesteel is secured in its loop with a leather tie and an antler bead cinch. It has a yew wood handle. A pouch sewn into the sheath contains a diamond touch up stone. A leg tie tab is provided. The sheath is double stitched, saddle stitched by hand.
Survival knife
Handmade forged knife for extreme use.
What makes the Mt. Caribou knife an great wilderness survival knife?
7” (178mm) spear point blade is hand forged from a piece of lumber mill saw blade carbon steel. A molybdenum, chromium, nickel wear resistant steel. The spine is a hefty 5/16” (8mm). The finger guard is a piece of feller buncher chainsaw bar welded to the tang and brazed with copper. The tang is tapered and hollow ground putting the knife balance at the finger guard. Moose antler scales are held with threaded stainless steel pins and peened over. The lanyard hole has a copper insert and is strung with a short hand braided lanyard. An 8mm thick head saw tooth is welded to the end of the tang and backed with a thick piece of leather. The steel pommel is designed for hammering, prying, digging, smashing and breaking. Not light duty. The Mt. Caribou knives won't fail. The heat treatment is thorough. The knife is differentially hardened with clay, then, differntially tempered with a torch and oven giving the knife strength and toughness where needed, guards and butts are welded to the the tangs using oxy/acetylene.
A review of a Mt Caribou we made 10 years ago published May/2025,
https://bushcraftusa.com/threads/review-cariboo-blades-wilderness-survival-knife.388874/
The Edge
Custom survival knife. Two bevels. A strong edge for chopping.
Copper work
The Butt
Head saw tooth welded to the tang. A steel butt for breaking and hammering.
The saw tooth comes out of 5 and 6 foot circular saw blades we recovered from local saw mills. We remove the insert and weld it to the end of the Mt Caribou’s tang using oxygen acetylene gas welding techniques. The finger guard is welded to the tang.
Saw tooth from a 1.75 meter lumber mill blade.
Variations of the Mt. Caribou knife.
Handmade survival knives. Secured in their sheaths with locking lanyards. Fire steel for fire making and a touch up stone in a pouch. The fire steel is supplied with an antler bead cinch, securing the steel in its loop.
Custom Handmade
Hand forged survival knife with mesquite scales (custom), head saw tooth for tearing, digging, hammering and breaking. Custom Made Bushcraft Survival Knives.
Custom made knives
The Owl, Survival Knife.
A pueo owl tooled into the leather.
Custom made survival knife. 6 1/2” blade hand forged from head saw steel, 1/4” thick spine with melted copper, steel finger guard, brass, moose antler,
Wilderness survival knife, The Owl.
One of a 5’ saw blade’s teeth is welded to the tang for hammering, breaking, prying and smashing.
Lumber mill saw blade steel
Reclaimed steel. 2 metre diameter head saw blade
Survival knives that are part of the Pacific Northwest boreal forest.
…..they left saw dust, we leave metal grindings.
Powered by the sun.
https://aki-and-scott-fireweed.blogspot.com/2021/12/living-with-solar-power-for-25-years.html
Handmade Camp Knives
Survival knife with a finger choil. A knife for camp chores.
Moose Antler
Hand forged wilderness survival knife. Moose antler scales.
Handmade, handforged knife with a rustic finish
Walnut
Custom made bushcraft knife . 5 1/2”” blade, walnut wood handle and a fire steel in a loop, pouch and a field touch up stone.
Companion Knives
Bushcraft set. The Mountain Caribou survival knife and a Pacific Northwest style hook knife.
Handmade 5 inch edge, finger choil Mt Caribou hunter. 5” Kootenay hunting knife.
Visit the Kootenay Knife page.
Visit our Hook Knife page.
Custom made bushcraft survival tool set.
Hand Forged Survival knife and ulu. Handmade Ulus
Cherry Wood
Custom made survival knife. Handmade. Hand Forged. A wilderness survival knife.
Knife spine showing the steel saw tooth welded to the tang’s end..
Bushcraft survival knife. Loaded sheath with fire steel and loop, stone & pouch, locking lanyards.
Do you see the fox?
Wilderness Knives
Survival knife set up for a wilderness trek
The Mountain Caribou survival knife is a piece of the Pacific Northwest boreal forest.
A wolf in the bush.
The Mountain Caribou survival knife,
$3200
Option Prices:
- fire steel and loop, $275,
- custom pouch with a diamond stone, $355
- locking lanyards, $375.