Old Hobby Resurrected

[JackstrawIII]

Want to share something with you all that I’m personally really excited about. After about a 5 year hiatus from knife making, I’ve been getting back into making knives lately and been having so much fun. 
 

I was very blessed in the past to have a pretty thriving business making custom knives and sending them all over the world. Most of my customers were military, but also many hunters and weekend warriors. I shut the business down indefinitely due to some health struggles related to Lyme disease, but I’ve been improving lately. My wife and I agreed that I was in a place where venturing back into making knives as a hobby made sense. 
 

It took a while to order new tools and equipment and reconfigure my wood shop back into a knife shop, but I’ve been back on the grind for a few weeks now and having a blast. 
 

The goal of this post is not to promote my work, but since I know some of you will ask, the best place to see what I’ve made is my instagram account, which is @danfreda

 

Ps. No, I’ve never made a fillet knife, despite all my fishing pals clamoring for one haha. Maybe someday. 

[GreenPig]

Excellent. Glad you're on the mend. Lyme can be brutal. 

[bloom]

I work in a cabinet shop, we have a resaw ( a large heavy duty band saw) that takes 1 1/4 inch wide blades and the blades occasionally break, could be good material for a fillet knife. If you would like, I would send you some pieces. could also send a few walnut scraps.

[JackstrawIII]

8 hours ago, GreenPig said:

Excellent. Glad you're on the mend. Lyme can be brutal. 

That is 100% true. Nasty nasty. I’ve learned to mitigate symptoms somewhat through careful diet and lifestyle changes. Still waiting to be fully restored tho. 
 

1 hour ago, bloom said:

I work in a cabinet shop, we have a resaw ( a large heavy duty band saw) that takes 1 1/4 inch wide blades and the blades occasionally break, could be good material for a fillet knife. If you would like, I would send you some pieces. could also send a few walnut scraps.

That is a very kind offer, thank you so much. Wow. With that said, I prefer to work with new steel over recycled though. With recycled you never know if there are micro fractures or other issues with the steel that don’t show up while making the knife, but can cause a failure later on during use. 

[bloom]

Glad to see you getting back in the game. I get what you say about recycled metal and micro fractures.