Carter Crafts

02/24/2018

This weekend!

02/06/2017

This Part 1 of demonstrating how I make a small Bowie knife. This part takes you through grinding, heat treating, and polishing the blade.

01/20/2017

Carter handmade custom knives currently available for purchase at http://www.cartercrafts.com/available.htm

01/18/2017

Beautiful mammoth tusk bark ivory. In this photo you can see the layers in a section of 10,000 year old wooly mammoth tusk. Tusks grow in layers. The interior is creamy white and looks very similar to elephant ivory. The outermost "bark" layer often has beautiful coloring that may be brown, blue, green or yellow. The colors are caused by the tusk absorbing minerals from the ground or permafrost where it lay buried for thousands of years.

05/10/2016

Come out and see us at the RK Gun & Knife Show May 14-15 at the Kentucky Fair & Expo Center in Louisville, KY. There is a link to a $2 off admission coupon below;
http://rkshows.com/coupon/

04/17/2016

One more day of the big National Gun Day show.

04/12/2016

Get ready for the Big One!! The size of "3" football fields in one room. The 29th Anniversary of National Gun Day is coming up this weekend, April 16, 17, 2016, at the Kentucky Fair & Expo center, in Louisville, Kentucky. Come on out and see us!

04/09/2016

Why are handmade custom knives expensive? Here is what $444.56 worth of grinding belts looks like.

04/09/2016

03/15/2016

Advocatus Diaboli

02/12/2016

It was too cold to work in my barely heated shop so I visited my buddy Gil Hibben and heat treated some blades in his warm shop today.