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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 …