{"title":"Gallery","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Gallery is an archive of knives I have made over the years.  Use the Galleries drop-down menu to browse for knives by type.  I am still adding knives, so check back... \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"combat-5","title":"Combat #5","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe Combat #5 is the big brother to the versatile Combat #4.  It's the same knife but with a 2\" longer blade and an integral double guard.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe blade is forged from my stainless \/ carbon laminated steel (420 stainless with a 1095 core).  There is forge texture left on the ricasso and spine of the blade.  The knife is a full, tapered-tang with an integral guard.  In keeping with the utilitarian purposes of the knife, the clip is unsharpened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe handle is carved canvas micarta, which gives a great wet grip with or without gloves.  The single finger groove also helps index the hand to the handle and provides a solid memory point.  The butt of the handle has a flare and drop that I am a big fan of.  The hardware is stainless with a lined lanyard hole.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe sheath is a new design.  Really, this is the semi-pouch sheath but for a knife with a double guard.  The knife is secured deeply in the sheath, and even with the keeper unsnapped, the knife sits securely making sure it comes out only when you want it to.  It's a high-ride sheath made to fit up to a 1.75\" belt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eBlade length is 7.4\" with an overall of 12.25\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Combat #5, Green Micarta","offer_id":1128741835,"sku":"","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Combat #5, Black Micarta","offer_id":1128744647,"sku":"","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Combat #5, Sand Micarta","offer_id":1128745159,"sku":"","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/combat077-1200.jpg?v=1431099532"},{"product_id":"talon-edc","title":"Talon EDC","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurpose designed as an Every Day Carry knife, the Talon has remained one of my most popular regular models.  From the shape of the handle to the grind of the blade, each curve is intentional and makes up one of the most useful and carry-able knives you've ever had.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade with Laminated and sometimes Damascus blades, the Talon is available with premium wood, horn and stag handles. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlade is 3.5\" with an overall length of 7.5\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrices From $500 - $650\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1151088523,"sku":"","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/talon-group-1200.jpg?v=1422900007"},{"product_id":"american-bolo","title":"American Bolo","description":"\u003cp\u003eI've dubbed this an American Bolo, because of the strong Philippine Bolo influence, blended with a clip point and a handle shape that has become a favorite of mine on large knives.  The Blade is forged from 1095, satin finished on the flats, forge-textured on the spine, and clay-hardened to show a beautiful hamon.  It was all I could do to restrain myself from putting the hours necessary into a sublime hand-finish that would showcase the subtlety of the hamon, but I resisted because that goes against the whole idea of keeping the costs down while squeezing in as much character as possible.  The handle is natural (not stabilized) Brazilian rosewood that I've had for several years in my dry box.  Modern, acrylic-impregnated stabilized wood just seemed wrong on this knife, while the natural rosewood and the hammer-peened copper pins seemed just right.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEven the sheath was \"rusticated\" with a special technique I've developed over the years that is top-secret.  OK, I'll tell you...  I have a rock I like that I roll and pound and press into the leather 'til it looks just right.  :-)\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis monster of a knife has a 16\" blade, with an overall of 21.5\".  The blade is just over 2\" at the widest point as is 3\/8\" thick at the ricasso with a distal taper and a tapered tang.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1154918499,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/camp43-1200.jpg?v=1423006300"},{"product_id":"half-light-fighter","title":"Half-Light Fighter","description":"\u003cp\u003eHalf-light is that point where the sun has set but dark has not yet set in.  It's twilight, but half-light is a much cooler word, and works so well for a black and white knife.  This slick, fast, fighter has all the feel and practicality of a true fighting knife, yet has the elegance of an art knife.  Fast from a balance point just ahead of the guard, feel from the sculpted African Blackwood handle, practicality from the take-down feature and the laminated blade.  Yet all those things are the very things that give this knife such visual elegance.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe blade is my now signature \"forged to shape\" laminated steel, made from 416 stainless with a 1095 core.  Notice the shape of the exposed core and the re-alloying along the cutting edge.  The Foster curved guard is mosaic Damascus with a stainless spacer.  Handle is sculpted and polished African Blackwood, finished off at the butt with a matching stainless spacer and Damascus nut.  The knife is a true take-down in that there is no epoxy holding the handle together.  Just pins and that nut.  Very strong, very tight, yet very useful. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheath is a slip style with quilted tooling, a faux throat overlay and a Damascus frog stud made from the same Damascus as the fittings on the knife.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe blade on this knife is just over 8.5\" with an overall length of 13.75\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1155131839,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/fighter028-1200.jpg?v=1423011511"},{"product_id":"jungle-sword","title":"Jungle Sword","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eMy first foray into the world of swords, the world of wood carving and a couple other things as well. This blade was by far the largest piece I had made to date (2009). Several years ago I built a heat treating oven for sword blades, but had never had occasion to use it until this piece. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThis blade is forged from a 1\" round bar of 52100, and differentially tempered for a hard edge and a spring back.  The blade has a tapered tang and distal taper in the blade so it is surprisingly light and fast. In fact, this blade is a fraction of an ounce less than my personal 10\" camp knife! The blade is hand finished on the flats, and mirror polished on the tang and spine. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe handle is another new adventure for me....carving. I was inspired by some heavily \"rusticated\" smoking pipes that I really liked. The desert ironwood is deeply sand blasted with a mask on the scroll area. The scroll was carved out to give it some visual depth and the perimeter is smooth and polished. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe scabbard is heavy duty premium leather with an ironwood escutcheon sandblasted and finished to compliment the handle and then sewn to the sheath.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe blade is 15.25\" long with an overall length of 20.75\" \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1155148135,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/bowie-061-1000.jpg?v=1423011957"},{"product_id":"laminated-chopper","title":"Laminated Chopper","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Laminated blade of 416 stainless with a 1095 core looks super cool, and is about as practical as you can get in a true cutting tool.  While the core gives all the benefits of a high carbon steel (strength, edge holding), the 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style.  Warning: If you do not have any spare lumber or dead trees close at hand when you first hold the knife, you will likely lay into the furniture before you know what's happening.  So get the wood, get it ready, and save the kitchen table.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThis blade is forged from W-2 and clay-hardened for a vivid hamon.  The spine is textured, while the rest of the blade has a fine hand-finish.  I like this look (as you probably know) because it offers such nice contrast while serving as a reminder to it's forged birth.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe bolsters are butterfly mosaic Damascus of O-1 and 15N20.  The handle scales are beautiful stabilized English walnut, secured with domed nickel silver pins and a lined lanyard hole.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe sheath is a pouch style, tooled with a quilted pattern, flanked by faux overlay of black leather.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe 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long clip, and the very narrow \"neck\" between the handle and the blade give the blade a very lively and fast feel in the hand.  Considering how large the knife is, it almost floats on its own when you hold it.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe handle is some beautiful Musk Ox horn with small domed nickel silver pins.  Musk Ox is one of those curiosities of nature, because a musk ox wouldn't make anyone's Top 10 list of most beautiful animals, but hidden beneath all that hair and stink is some of the most beautiful horn anywhere on earth!  It is actually translucent, so the light bounces off the patterns inside the horn, giving it a depth that very few materials can match.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheath as well, is a bit of a first.  The tooling is clean and the leather work is solid, but I wanted a little something extra to tie the whole package together.  So I forge welded a piece of laminated steel onto a section of 416 stainless bar stock, then carved it into a very unique arrowhead-shaped frog stud. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe blade of this knife is over 11\" long, and the knife is 16.5\" overall.   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1155219531,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/camp53-1200.jpg?v=1423013673"},{"product_id":"blue-collar-hunters","title":"Blue Collar Hunters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Blue Collar hunter has for years been my basic, workhorse hunting and daily carry knife.  The size and shape of the blade and handle make it the ideal knife for hunting and camp tasks as well as the daily cardboard box or rope.  These knives are all made with my stainless \/ carbon laminated steel in a random ladder pattern. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBlades are Laminated Steel, satin finished with tapered tangs. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe handles are polished 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Late last year while I was teaching a bladesmithing class, I saw ABS Mastersmith Adam DesRosiers working on a camp knife.  He wasn't finished, but I saw the line of the knife above in his partially finished knife.  The shape I saw had a recurved edge, but had a point not unlike the point of a Japanese sword.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe blade of the knife is 1084, forged very close to shape with only the smallest amount removed near the edge to bring the blade to an edge.  The natural forging texture is visible in the dark portion at the spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe handle is some very nice, hand-finished English walnut covered with a Japanese style wrap.  These handles have amazing grip, and I think work well visually as a fusion of different styles that still compliment each other nicely.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe sheath is a pouch style with a tooled faux inlay.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp 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areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe handle is also that great English walnut, hand finished and covered with a Japanese style wrap.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe sheath is another treatise of the faux inlay, this time with airbrushed highlights at the borders of the \"inlay.\"  The sheath has my versatile \"V\" notch belt loop, also with airbrushed highlights.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eBlade length is 9-3\/4\" with an overall length of 15\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1156831271,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/camp-066a-1000.jpg?v=1423057345"},{"product_id":"brushman-camp-knife","title":"Brushman Camp Knife","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThis is a fairly unusual knife for me in a couple of ways.  t's non-traditional, but has wonderful 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the name for the whole piece.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1156891847,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/damhunter046-1200.jpg?v=1423059024"},{"product_id":"dark-side-knives","title":"Darkside Knives","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Dark Side knife was born out of a desire for a great looking, minimalist knife that was easy to carry, practical, and that I would want to carry personally.  Years later after several new models, they continue to be the knives I carry every day. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are forged and left with forge texture on the sides for character and grip.  Made with Laminated and Damascus steels, they will keep a razor-sharp edge and keep it right where you can reach it whenever you need it. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheath is Kydex with textured black leather overlay.  The belt loop is adjustable for left or right hand, and either vertical or horizontal carry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1156915159,"sku":"","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/darkside010-small.jpg?v=1423059912"},{"product_id":"integral-cleaver","title":"Integral Cleaver","description":"\u003cp\u003eI have come to love the cleaver-style blade as the ultimate heavy-use knife in the shortest package.  The extra wide blade puts as much forward weight as a blade 3\" longer so if hacking your way through the jungle is how you roll, then you'll love this knife.  Works great for BBQ too...\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis knife has a blade forged from 52100 round bar.  Heat treated in salt, blade is differentially tempered and hand-finished on the blade flats.  The tang, spine, and bolster are satin black.  Handle is black canvas micarta finished with my carved texture.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSheath is tightly molded , and carries right handed.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBlade is 6-3\/8\" long and over 2-1\/4\" wide at the widest point, with an overall of 11-3\/8\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1156949919,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/camp67a-1000.jpg?v=1423060554"},{"product_id":"spalted-integral-dirk","title":"Spalted Integral Dirk","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the most universally-loved blade shapes of all time.  The blade looks like a chef's knife and a weapon all at the same time.  One of the reasons it is so timeless is that it is almost impossible to make a knife blade with a simpler shape - and yet the subtlety of the proportions and curves means you could spend a lifetime mastering them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe knife is forged from 52100 round bar, heat treated in salt, and differentially tempered.  The blade flats are hand-finished, and the rest of the steel is mirror polished.  I have been finishing integral knives like this for years, and I still love the contrast you can get in the same piece of steel.  The handle is stabilized, spalted maple with domed nickel silver pins.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSheath is a pouch style with a \"V\" notch belt loop and \"rack gear\" tooling.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBlade is 7\" long with an overall of 12\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burt Foster Handmade Knives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1156957011,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/9381\/products\/camp69-1000.jpg?v=1423060769"},{"product_id":"stag-integrals","title":"Stag Integrals","description":"You can't make a more elegant, more simple knife than 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