Build A Better Knife With Our Custom Knife Builder

It’s been said that one of the marks of a successful outdoorsman is how he strives to make himself comfortable and make work easier on himself in camp. As you’ll probably look to your knife as one of the most important tools that you carry with you on the trail and in camp, you may expect to get the most functionality that you can out of it. Many outdoorsmen do, and that’s one of the reasons that bushcrafters and survivalists make performance-enhancing alterations to their knives and sheaths or look for custom knives altogether. Sometimes an enhancement is something as simple as wrapping an exposed tang in paracord for an emergency supply of cordage, or as stitching a loop or a pocket onto a leather sheath for a little extra storage. However, as useful as these tweaks can be, one of the greatest - and easiest - ways to improve the functionality of your knife is to use our custom knife builder for some of the best custom knives we can offer you.

Great For Campers, Bushcrafters, Sportsmen and More
While it may be true that the more skills you know, the fewer tools you will need to be successful in the bush, having the right tools sure makes life easier. A customized knife can add a whole lot of utility to the skill set of an experienced camper or bushcrafter, and our custom knife builder makes it easy for you to build a whole system around a knife.

Whereas a knife and sheath alone are indispensable tools, our custom knife builder makes it easy for you to customize every aspect of the knife and accessories that you include with it, and we don’t mean something as simple as a few extra feet of paracord or a place to store a sharpener or a pocket stone. With our custom knife builder, you can spec out such things as the scales, sheath system and a variety of outdoor accessories. The freedom our custom knife builder gives you to build out a knife will give you great advantages not only over the look and feel of a knife but over its overall functionality. Here are a few ways some of our custom knives can provide these benefits for you.

Improve The Feel Of A Knife
No matter what your purposes are when you take to the fields and woods, there are some tools you’ll rely on to be successful. Bushcrafters will rely on their knives to help them build fires. Campers will turn to their knives to help them prepare food and keep a campfire going. Hunters and fishermen rely on their knives to prepare bait and clean their harvests. In short, outdoorsmen’s knives are important, and comfort matters.

Sometimes a great knife leaves a little to be desired either in the way of fit and finish or in the comfort of its design. Sometimes handle scales are finished roughly or have sharp corners. While this might be a minor inconvenience for some if it catches on a piece of clothing, it becomes a more serious matter if it creates hotspots and blisters on your hand. If you’re doing light camp work with that knife, a poorly designed knife handle may not be as much of an issue but if you’re using it as a drawknife or using it to baton wood, those hotspots will start to wear. Spend too long using a knife with uncomfortable grips and you’ll probably be wishing that you had some salve for your hurting hands. .

Then there are times when a sheath doesn’t hold a knife securely enough and rattles or loosens over time. Other times, a poor design may allow it to catch on branches as you walk through the woods.

You can use our custom knife builder to create some of the best custom knives that are tailored to your needs.

In terms of the comfort and feel of survival and hunting knives, a lot of that does come from the scales, but it isn’t reserved to the handle alone. The spine, exposed portions of the tang and finger choils featured on the blank will all feed into the comfort and usefulness of a finished knife as well. By the same token, problems experienced with sheaths mentioned above can affect the comfort and overall feel of the knife system you carry.

Our custom knife builder allows you to choose the blade blank and the scales you want to pair with it, as well as the sheath you want to use with the knife. These features and certain add ons vary with the model that you start with for customization, but in some cases we offer features like extended scales for extra grip and comfort, drop loop sheath backers. In some cases you will find many different options for sheaths in Kydex and leather that you want to pair with your knife, depending on how you want the sheath to hold your blade and the conditions you will be in while carrying it. Being able to choose things like the scales, sheath and carry accessories on your custom knife system are only a few things we make it easy for you to do with our custom knife builder. They will have a marked effect on the comfort and convenience of your knife system.

Enhanced Overall Functionality
Our custom knife builder lets you get more than extra comfort out of your fixed blade, and that comfort is extra functionality on its own. Just take a look at our ESEE 4 in our custom knife builder for an example. On one level, the function is comfort, but on another, it can make you more capable and efficient in the woods. After you’ve selected a blank like the ESEE 4 and scales for it, you can pick whatever sheath you want to pair with it.

If you want to carry it on a backpack, you can pair it with one of our custom Kydex sheaths and a Tek-Lok to keep your belt free and give you easy access. If you’re a hunter and silence is important, then you might want to take a look at some of the leather sheaths we offer for this model. We offer custom leather Field Sheaths for carry on your waist as well as other leather sheaths that offer you versatility in how you carry them. It’s hard to beat the noise reduction of leather, and if you need to be quiet in camp, leather’s one way to make it easier on yourself.

We offer MOLLE backs for this model so you can mount the knife elsewhere or add MOLLE compatible components that you find as you go. You can also add things like Fire Steel Loops and pouches to a sheath for your custom ESEE 4 where you can keep things like sharpening stones or a lighter or even a small tin with tinder. With our custom knife builder, you can add all these things and still have room for ferrocerium rods and paracord, for a huge amount of additional functionality.

Our knife builder lets you put together a system where you’ll have your knife and accessories all in one central location. It allows you to condense a lot of the essential gear you’ll often be bringing into the woods anyway, allowing you to deal with a number of situations that may arise.

Not Just Comfort and Function
Our custom knife builder lets you choose the colors and pattern you want for the scales as well, and in some cases the sheath. If camouflage is critical for you, say, as a bowhunter, you can get custom Kydex sheaths finished in Kryptek patterns and scales in colors to match. By a different token, if you want high visibility tools, you can get scales, sheaths, even FireSteel handles in bright colors like pink and orange. Build out a custom knife for some of the best custom knives you can find and you don’t just get enhanced performance and comfort, but you can make the knife look the way you want. It’s not critical in the field most of the time, but it’s a nice touch that will really personalize your tools.

So take a look at our custom knife builder and put together the knife you’ve been wanting for some time now. We’ll make the process easy and you’ll come out of it with a knife of which you can really be proud. There are lots of popular blanks to choose from for you to put together just the right knife to tackle the exact subset of conditions you’re used to facing in your neck of the woods. Hunting, fishing, camping and even just plain old bushcraft will take on a new light when you use a knife designed by you.