new guy

[Tom Hudson]

i'm new to the forum but have been customizing knives for 25 years or more - i see some really nice work - never to old to learn.;
tom
http://www.twhudsonengraver.com

[jerryd6818]

Welcome to the forum Tom. Glad to have you aboard. The more the merrier. I'm guessing that trapper is an example of your work? Very nice.

[gino]

Welcome Tom!! Nice lookin knife.

[orvet]

Welcome aboard Tom.
Did you do the scales & filework on the trapper as well as the engraving?

Nice work.

Dale

[gmusic]

Nice work Tom!

Welcome to the site................nice to have a neighbor posting! I'm up here in Redding.


Nice web site awesome work!

[Tom Hudson]

Welcome aboard Tom.
Did you do the scales & filework on the trapper as well as the engraving?

Nice work.

Dale

Hi Dale - yep - the whole thing - i made hand made folders for many years - Here is a 5 blade folder i made - elephant Ivory scales - worked springs, inside & out - engraved the inside of the liners - I started out making pocket knives - only started build fixed blades for more canvas area to scratch on - all the hand made stuff on my site is out of my personal collection - i haven't hand built a knife in 5 or 6 years - tom

[Tom Hudson]

Welcome Tom!! Nice lookin knife.

Case came out with a Trapper with stainless blades & christmas tree scales - didn't go over very well - i bought 4 dozen of them from a dealer a few years back - think i have one left - think i paid $10.00 ea for them back then - the guy was sick of looking at them - This Red bone was also one of them - you might be able to see the tang stamp - tom

[MITCH RAPP]

Tom Hudson ABOARD!

[orvet]

I did look around your website Tom, quite impressive.
You do a variety of things well, certainly not a one trick pony!

Welcome aboard!

Dale

[buckeyefan]

Tom

Very cool web site I have my eye on a few already

Marty

[Tom Hudson]

I did look around your website Tom, quite impressive.
You do a variety of things well, certainly not a one trick pony!

Welcome aboard!

Dale

Thanks dale - if i had to do the same thing every day i would just shoot myself. I use to set at the bench 9/10/12 hours a day. Now 6/7 hours at the bench a day is plenty, after that i need to work on other things for a few hours. Getting on the metal lathe or wood lathe is very relaxing for me.

Tom
It's only work if you would prefer to be doing something else!

[Tom Hudson]

Tom

Very cool web site I have my eye on a few already

Marty

thanks Marty - drop me an e-mail anytime - tom

[buckeyefan]

Hey Tom, Email sent.

Marty

[buckeyefan]

Hey Tom I sent you an Email 2 days ago?

PM me if you didnt get my Email.

Marty

[justold52]

Kool and well done job Tom Hudson...

I do not make any knives. I just want to ask you if you can make the bolsters look like this one? How is it done?

[Elvis]

Psssst....New Guy......Nice work!!! Anyone know the legalities of sending a Walther PPK UPS from Ohio to California? Yes, it's polished stainless. Now wouldn't that look great? Beautiful work Tom!

[Tom Hudson]

Kool and well done job Tom Hudson...

I do not make any knives. I just want to ask you if you can make the bolsters look like this one? How is it done?

some of the factory knives used cast bolsters - I don't know if yours is cast or if an engraver engraved them - i can hand engrave them like that for you. Tom

[Tom Hudson]

Psssst....New Guy......Nice work!!! Anyone know the legalities of sending a Walther PPK UPS from Ohio to California? Yes, it's polished stainless. Now wouldn't that look great? Beautiful work Tom!

it has to be sent dealer to dealer to creat a paper trailfor big brother

[Tom Hudson]

Hey Tom I sent you an Email 2 days ago?

PM me if you didnt get my Email.

Marty

sent you the pix's 3 times - twice it bounced back? - i can try again today if you didn't get the e-mail - let me know or e-mail me at [email protected] - just a new year glitch i guess?????
tom

[buckeyefan]

Hey Tom I got your email today.

Not sure what happened either Maybe your right about the New Year glitch...

BTW, I did see the new stuff you added, Very nice

Marty

[Elvis]

We may yet talk about that pistol Tom. Very impressive work indeed. Glad you decided to hang around with the likes of us.

[Tom Hudson]

We may yet talk about that pistol Tom. Very impressive work indeed. Glad you decided to hang around with the likes of us.

I would do a blue PPK - i have done 5 or 6 or them, they cut really nice - but i'm not interested in doing a PPK in stainless - i have a THP in stainless - it's the real skinny .22 walther - baby PPK - i did some engraving on it & it was pure torture - like trying to cut glass - I asume the PPK will have the same stainless - i still think the ppk was & is one of the best choice's for a carry gun. I normally carry a 1911 but i also like that THP with Remington stingers. I was working a gun show in Atlanta & the guy next to me worked in the crime lab in Atlanta - He said that they never have been able to trace a Remington Stinger bullet - they deform so much they can't trace them.

I'll look & see if i don't have a pix some place of one of the PPK's i did. I should a pix of my personal one - unless the boss here gets mad if we talk about guns? - Tom

[Tom Hudson]

We may yet talk about that pistol Tom. Very impressive work indeed. Glad you decided to hang around with the likes of us.

Here's a really bad picture of a picture - this is one of those guns i wished i hadn't sold - i just engraved down each side of the slide - thats all it needed - tom

[Elvis]

From what I can tell, the detail on the pistol looks incredible. I can understand if you don't want to do a stainless PPK if that type of steel has given you problems before. I'm just really impress with your work and you're right about the PPK being a great carry weapon. While it looks very nice as is, I'd like to spice it up with something the caliber of your work.

There's a guy about two hours south of me who does some of the best and most intricate filework I've ever seen and he has done a few pistols. I may go that route (one day).

But to anyone who hasn't clicked on Tom's website link.....you're missing it. Beautiful!

[Tom Hudson]

From what I can tell, the detail on the pistol looks incredible. I can understand if you don't want to do a stainless PPK if that type of steel has given you problems before. I'm just really impress with your work and you're right about the PPK being a great carry weapon. While it looks very nice as is, I'd like to spice it up with something the caliber of your work.

There's a guy about two hours south of me who does some of the best and most intricate filework I've ever seen and he has done a few pistols. I may go that route (one day).

But to anyone who hasn't clicked on Tom's website link.....you're missing it. Beautiful!

Hey Elvis - something NEW! go to my site - click on the second link "About us" crank up the speakers - set back & enjoy -