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Find below a collection of my handmade knives for sale. Each of these is available for immediate delivery. I generally ship the knives in hard ‘map tubes’ via Australia Express Post, which comes with a tracking number. I accept payment via direct transfer or PayPal. Items will be dispatched as soon as funds have been cleared into my account. I can be contacted via the form at the bottom of the page.
All prices are in Australian Dollars
A fine bladed carving knife made from brushed 3.5mm Nirto V stainless hardened to RC = 59. Blade length is 20cm, overall is 33.5cm. This knife features a needle sharp tip and is ground into a fine edge. It has a distal taper, some texturing on the spine ahead of the handle and stippling on the ricasso. The handle is stabilised maple. The bolster is custom made carbon fiber featureing a subtle purple colour and a bright inlaid wire. The travel sheath has a top side complimenting the handle colour and a rear side matching the purples of the carbon fiber. The rear side is hand tooled with a pattern suggestive of carbon fiber. It had a snap strap to secure the knife with a leather covering over the inside presentation of the metal so it doesn’t scratch the blade. There’s a nice mosaic pin at the rear for feature. This is a sharp knife made from premium materials. If it doesn’t sell here, I’ll be taking it to the Adelaide Knife Show this coming November. Click on the photos to enlarge them.
Price = $750Aud
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A top of the range camp knife made from brushed 4.5mm CPMS35VN at RC=60. The blade features a tapered tang and a distal taper from the start of the clip to the tip. The spine of the clip is textures however the rest of the spine is squared off and smooth for sparking. There is a subtle concave curve to the cutting edge. The handle is made from impossible to get bubinga burl that I’ve had in the cupboard for fifteen years, a very hard wood. The shape is a full coke bottle with palm swell and no hard or sharp edges in the grip. The bead is mulga burl. Comes with a hand tooled and dyed sheath. Blade length is 18cm, overall length is 32cm. Click on the photos to enlarge them for better viewing.
Price = $750
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A full tang camp utility / utility hunter, made from 52100 carbon steel. Features a coke bottle handle of highly figured gidgee and bolster of stabilised black palm. There’s a thumb rest and comfortable palm swell.
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A camp utility made from 52100 carbon steel. The spine is jeweled, has a tapered tang and distal taper. The handle is stabilised bamboo, (quite tough), the bead is chaktae viga. The sheath is fully tooled and dyed to compliment the handle.
Price = $690
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For those who like a smaller cooks knife because they’re light and nimble, this one is made from RWL34 and comes with a carry sheath tooled and dyed to compliment the handle material. A smaller blade but with plenty of width to keep your knuckles up off the deck and enough curve from the tip to allow rocking motion through herbs etc. The spine is jeweled and there’s a mosaic pin at the rear.
Price = $690
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A small knife, suitable as a paring knife in the kitchen or a picnic knife or a handy little helper around the camp. Made from M390 with a handle of C-Tek. Come with a leather travel pouch with buffalo hide snap strap.
Price = $450 Ref image 78
A nice sized hunter, suitable for deer, goats, and dinosaurs. Made from premium M390 at RC=60. The handle is dark-ish, micro figured miniritichie from Western Australia. The spine has some filing and a thumb rest, the ricasso is textured. The last photo, right, shows what the wood looks like with the sun catches it. Click on the photos to enlarge them for a better view.
Price = $690 Ref image 77
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A smaller hunter made from M390, premium stainless, hardened to RC=60. The handle is long lasting, hard wearing G10 and rounded at all contact points so there’s no hot spots in use. The knife features a textured ricasso, sculptured spine ahead of the handle and a mosaic pin at the rear. The sheath is coloured to compliment the knife handle. It’s protected by four coats of gloss, one coat of Renaissance Wax and the edges are smoothed with Gum Tragacanth.
Price = $600 Ref image 76
A slightly larger EDC made from RWL34 with G10 handle. This is exactly the type of knife I carry around with me every day in the workshop and around home. The knife comes with a positive snap kydex sheath mounted on a genuine Blade-Tek, Tek-Lok belt clip. This belt clip can be adjusted to fit any width belt and / or swung to seat the knife vertically. It’s currently mounted slightly above horizontal. If you’d prefer, you can remove the belt clip altogether and drop the EDC in its sheath into your pocket. Blade length = 9cm, overall length of knife = 20cm.
Price = $550, Ref image 72
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A camp utility made from stonewashed 52100 carbon steel. The handle is stabilised material from Outbacktimbers. I made the bead from my used 7mm Rem Mag and .243Rem brass. The knife features a tapered tang, thumb rest and solid triangular point. The sheath has four colours to compliment the handle and is treated with four coats of sealant and one of wax.
Price = $690, ref image 75
A camp utility made from 4mm thick 52100 carbon steel. Features a tapered tang, flat thumb rest, handle and bead made from mulga. The sheath is hand tooled and multi-dyed from 3.5mm leather. Blade length = 14cm, overall length = 28.5cm.
Price = $590, refer to image 74
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An EDC made from Takefu san mi VG10 core. Features a flat thumb rest and polished false edge. The handle is bocote with a blue liner and mosaic pin at rear. The sheath is made from buffalo hide that I’ve dyed in a camo pattern.
Price is $490, ref image 73
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A large sushi / carving knife. Right hand chisel ground from polished RWL34 stainless, it features a pretty laser engraved pattern on the first half of the blade (both sides). The handle is highly figured camatillo, one of the genuine rosewoods. The blade has a decorative heart shaped cutout near the ricasso. The knife comes with a carry sheath that is all red and black traditional business on the front side and party purple on the back. Blade length is 29cm, overall length is 41cm.
Price is $690, ref image 71
A full sized cooks made from brushed RWL34 stainless. Handle is New Guinea striped ebony, one of the best woods for handling the wet/acid kitchen environment and bolster of black G10.This design provides plenty of height to keep your knuckles up off the deck. Note the first third of the blade is slightly curved so you can rock the cutting edge through herbs etc. Comes with a leather carry sheath so it can go wherever you go.
Price = $650, ref image 70
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Here’s a utility made from 4mm thick RWL34. Note a good length of straight cutting edge, pointy tip supported by a good triangle of steel and simple, easy to use all day handle. The knife features a flash of bright orange so when you put it down you can find it again. Handle material is dymondwood and G10, so it’s not a heavy knife to carry. The spine and ricasso have been textured.
Price = $590, Refer to image 64
Small, fixed blade EDC’s made from CPM154 stainless. All have micarta handles and come with snappy kydex sheaths. Blade length is around 6cm, overall length is 15cm. These knives are designed to drop snugly into a pocket or hang around the neck when you’re in the workshop/gardening/hunting. I have one and I use it every day as I’m pottering around the house. When ordering, just state which one you want, ivory, grey or maroon. The lanyard beads are made from exotic timbers, ziricote, black mulga and Brazilian bloodwood.
Price is $350 each, refer image 69
Two fishing knives. Both are made from RWL34. The knife left has a handle made from custom carbon fiber and the one right is G10 and Micarta. Both follow a pattern I favour for my own fishing. They’re not thin and whippy but have a mild flex while remaining stiff enough to push though and take off the fillet.
Price for knife with blue handle is $590, price for knife with black and white handle is $550, Ref image 65
A biltong knife made from brushed RWL34, with densely curled miniritichit handle. The knife is right hand chisel ground with a slight (not obvious in the photo) curve in the blade’s cutting edge. The idea being, you hold the biltong in one hand and use this knife Gaucho style to slice off a chew. It comes with a hand sewn carry pouch made from buffalo hide. I’ve dyed it in a urban cammo pattern and included a fine red line to compliment the lanyard colour.
Price is $490, Refer to image 62
This is a fire lighting kit, consisting of a ferro-mag rod and high speed steel striker. Both are wearing bocote wood handles. I’ve included a carry pouch, hand sewn from buffalo hide and dyed in urban cammo.
Price is $200Aust, ref image 63
A broad bladed hunter / utility made from RWL34 with G10 handle and G10 bolster. The sheath is fully tooled and multi-dyed for that extra bit of glam. The practical function is being able to find the kit when you put it down in the field. More than one field knife has gone missing because it’s blended in with the forest. Bright orange will stand out. You’ll always know where this knife is.
Price is $590 refer to image 55
A smaller hunter in RWL34 with New Guinea striped ebony and micarta on the handle. The blade features lots of cutting curve, some filing on the spine and textured ricasso. This is a light and nimble knife, easy to carry all day.
Price is $590Aust refer to image 57
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A smaller and lighter cooks made from RWL34 with a rare example of amboyna burl on the handle. Some people, myself included, prefer a smaller and more nimble cooks knife. If that sounds right, then this is the knife for you. Comes with a nicely toned, hand stitched carry travel sheath.
Price is $590Aust refer image 6O
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An art piece made from polished RWL34. The brass bolster was hand engraved by Garrie Mitton. The handle is made from exhibition grade, full curl, quilted sapele. This timber is now listed by CITIES however I purchased this example nearly twenty years ago, well before the ban. The knife comes with a presentation box I made. The lid is bubinga, from timber I brought back from Tanzania in 2002. The sides, front and back, of the box are mulga from Queensland. I hand formed a Riflebirdknives logo from Malagassy ebony (with gold leaf inlay) and attached it to the front of the box. There is also a small wooden sheath made from Chakte Viga, a hardwood from Mexico. The sheath is felt lined to protect the blade polish.
Price is $890Aust refer to image 61
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Some general comments and definitions
Warrick Edmonds, member 0173 The Australian Knife Makers Guild.
Custom orders = Yes, I make many of them. If you have an idea, you can contact me via the form at the bottom of these pages. However, please be aware of two things. Firstly, there are quite broad laws pertaining to what I can make. I’m in South Australia so regardless of the laws in your part of the world I am bound by my local ones. So, please don’t ask for daggers, balisongs, kerambits, hidden or concealed knives, double edged fighting knives and such like. That being said, if you’re in doubt ask me and I’ll guide you with a yes or no. Secondly if you know exactly what you want, right down to the fine detail and your intention is to supply me with a set of instructions outlining such, then you’re talking to the wrong bloke. Instead, I prefer to discuss your needs and find some common ground in the design and materials. You have to leave me something to play with, I’m not a factory.
Payment. Full payment prior to dispatch. This can either be via direct transfer or PayPal. I don’t offer card services at this time.
I’ve put a few handy definitions at the bottom of this page, answering the most common questions. If you think I should add others or something in particular, let me know via the contact form.
Some definitions; goes on bottom of page
RC means Rockwell Scale of Hardness. You can have a look here for Wiki detail. In summary though, for hunting, utility, cooks knives and such like I look for something in the region 59 to 61. Yes, some steels will go harder without sacrificing to brittleness however it’s rare a customer will have the equipment on hand in the field to sharpen them. For fishing knives I want something a little softer that will allow a degree of flex, so around 57. The differences don’t sound like much but in practice they are great.
Hardening. I work with factory made steel bar that comes to me annealed. This is ‘normal’ steel hard, so as you would experience it if you hit your thumb with a hammer. This is not hard enough to support a worthwhile knife edge. Once I have made the knife blade I have it heat treated by a professional service, using state of the art vacuum ovens. This lifts the hardness by orders of magnitude. An additional benefit is that hardening turns steel springy, so it will not bend and stay bent. (Most knives do not take kindly to bending though!) Here’s the Wiki details.
Full tang. The vast majority of my knives are full tang. This means that the same steel bar that the blade is made from runs the full length of the knife handle. There are two reasons. Firstly it’s what my architect wife calls ‘truth in materials’, there are no lies being told. Secondly, it’s by far the strongest solution. With knives made from thick steel, I can taper the tang. This is done primarily for aesthetic reasons. Weight savings can be made much more easily by drilling out the waste in the tang. It takes skill to taper a tang, so it’s often done as part of the ‘showing off’.
Pins. These are small rods of metal or carbon fiber or Micarta that run completely through the handle, from one side to the other. As we all know, glues have tremendous pull strength but are weakest if subject to transverse shocks. Pins are there to help with the transverse loads, though they do aid in binding the handle material to the tang. They also have a secondary function, which is to add a decorative element, so sometimes I will use mosaic pins for effect.
Steel. I only use top of the line steels purchased from reputable suppliers. You will not find anything like leaf springs, saw blades, second hand or repurposed ‘maybes’ in these pages. Terms like carbon steel or stainless steel will be baked up by a type designation, such as M390 or 52100. There is no mystery about what you’re getting and that is the best steel available.