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Scott - I’ve watched this short of the SE St. Lawrence Expedition Knife about 30 times looking at every angle - the blade shape, handle material, and that bolster - it’s a MASTERPIECE! WELL DONE!

A few years ago we stopped at the new WWII museum in New Orleans. That is the first place that I had ever seen one. The story was about the same as yours. Made from the plexiglass of a jap fighter plane. Wish I had a camera. We went on with our vacation and stopped in Fredericksburg Texas . There we found The museum of the Pacific. They also had the same style of knife same story. Again no camera. I contacted the museum. About all they could say was it is considered “Trench Art “ But that was all they knew. Other than what was put on the card next to. Pacific island. Glass canopy. Etc I was surprised to see it there. Not ever seeing one before or since. Never thought about looking here. Just for fun. We stopped at another museum in Lubbock Texas. They were having a special display for the glider troopers. The part of the movie “Saving Private Ryan. The scene about the glider and the General and his jeep. I thought was just a part of the movie that someone made up. Along the wall was a big picture frame a piece of glider cloth. And pictures and the story. It had really happened just about exactly how it was pro-traded. I never knew that either. Again no camera 🤣😂 I need to get out more. By the way did We win?😂

Man! That bolster came out wicked good!

Excelente

Very nice!!

These are sweet!

Now that's how you retire a rasp/file

Nice Blade Scott!!!! Wow that came out nice!

Once the K-bar hilts that were originally leather stacked pieces wore or rotted from the tropical weather, they were often constructed of parts salvaged from downed aircraft, including Plexiglas from canopies, metals like brass and aluminum and Bakelite in many colors (used as electrical insulation in planes & boats).The knife was re-hilted in the field and the very attractive theater made grip is constructed of numerous washers made from clear Plexiglas, aluminum and burgundy colored Bakelite. Ypur knife could have been reworked in a number of locations in Asia. If I was to take a wild guess, i would say it was done in the Philippines.

Beautiful knives ... and coffee! What's your favorite brew, Speeder and Earl's?

I have a question. How do you tell the difference between the file skating because the blade is hard vs skating because the edge of the blade is smooth?

Solid work man, where are you located?

congrats Congrats CONGRATS 4K Subs STUNNING knives as ALWAYS B PROUD Scott B PROUD Regards Richard. 🇿🇦

Great Video Scott - congrats on 4K!!!🎉🎉

Stunning blades as always!

Very nice

Greetings from 🇬🇷🔪👍🏻

Two beauties!!😍

Give me a heads up when they get divorce lol, very nice work.

I would like to buy a knife like the one with the tiger would handle.

How can I acquire one of these good sir?

Thanks Scott as always Siir EVERYTHING U make knives/ sheaths r ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECES and as 4 da ladies U DA MAN B PROUD Scott B PROUD Regards Richard. 🇿🇦

Great knives and video as always!

Scott - Great Video!!!! Absolutely hysterical video - was that the Mrs. On the phone or Beyoncé? 😂🤣😂 Have a great weekend Buddy! 🇺🇸

Could you please tell me the thickness is? It would be 4mm?

To make the color effect of the handle in the video, does the wood used need to be dyed?Hope you can answer this question, thank you!😊

That's a nice one! Make mine an inch longer plz!

Nice.

I just found your channel & you create some beautiful blades! Love the finishes & sheths. Great video,you got a new subscriber! Thanks for sharing!!😺⚔️👍🏻

Nice work! Glad to see you are busy!!! LOL!!!

I have a question? Can these be used for a kitchen knife or is there a particular kind of knife made for that?

Thanks 4 the AWSOME VIDEO Scott once again u truly r a tradesmen of HIGHEST STANDARDS Sir those knives frontier bag and that last knife in sheath/ pouch is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL and made with finesse pride down 2 the finest detail B PROUD Scott. B PROUD Regards Richard 🇿🇦 (South Africa)

Glad you're well! Thanks for the update. Really like the new "coffee system"!

Great update video Scott! Nice knives going up on the site - Amazing job!

Always fun to get you're updates and to view some of your fine work! :)

Very nice ❤❤❤

You are correct that forging makes steel stronger. I was at a knife seminar and there was a Canadian smith demonstrating. He was talking about how steel gets stronger when forged. He used a common nail from the hardware store and forged the same nail using the same material. When he did the strength test that pulled on both nails to stretch it, the forged nail was twice as strong as the common unforged nail.

The shape of the knife is beautiful, very well built too

AWESOME SCOTT!

Scott my brother i hope u r well and all is good just wondering because i haven't seen you 4 a while hope all is well with u fam pets and business and weather is good hope 2 c a video soon Regards Richard 🇿🇦

Beautiful work !! No sissy knife .. LOL

I have one like that. The sheath has engraving with the owners initials, some native Māori artwork and a lightly ground down 1932 New Zealand 1 Shilling coin near the end of the sheath. The blade appears to be the same as yours. The handle is of similar but thinner sections of brass, red plastic, clear plexiglass? and leather. I assumed the The end cap is diamond shaped, of aluminum with nicely engraved palm trees, stamped lettering “So. Pacific” “1943”. I assumed the plexiglass was recovered from an aircraft.

Wanting to get into making my own knives, this video will really help much appreciated

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Love it great job

If you use a lot of figured, maple try some iron nitrate it crazy what it does what it does to the wood

Wow

I can tell by the shape if you made it you can achieve much greater beautiful pieces

Nice blades Scott - Really excited about batch - Thanks again!

Once again Sir, every knife, every sheath a masterpiece Sir .U truly are a proud tradesmen of the HIGHEST degree with an to the finest detail Scott .U really would make an excellent tutior/teacher.I can only imagine the young tradesmen that would come out of your trade school. ( truly mean every word Sir ) Regards Richard 🇿🇦