Been a long time, but finding quality pictures of knives is harder than you’d expect! When I saw this Spalted Alder / Damascus knife by Mike Pisio from Canada, I just knew I had to feature it.
Just look at that stunning blue tinted pattern on the steel, and check out the stabilised crosscut alder handle – beautiful. Everything about this knife oozes quality. It’s well worth a closer look.
The knife is 8.25″ overall length, blade length is 3.75″.
Pisio Damascus Knife Wallpapers
alder, custom, damascus, fixed blade, Mike Pisio, wood
Spyderco are known throughout the knife world for their distinctive designs and high quality.
Jerry Hossom has been making knives full-time since 1997 and has a great range of combat/tactical designs, as well as some more experimental pieces that defy categorization .
This Hossom/Spyderco collaboration features a 4.75 inch blade, 0.16″ thick (that’s 4mm for the metric folks) and the OAL is 10.5 inches.
This is a great looking knife with N690Co steel and micarta scales.
This excellent photo was taken by Sergiusz Mitin of knifeforums – thanks for permission to use it.
Spyderco/Hossom Dayhiker Wallpapers
dayhiker, fixed blade, hossom, micarta, spyderco
mic201m from knifeforums shared this striking custom made knife in the Scandinavian Knife Gallery and it looks great. Apparently he got the idea while sitting in a traffic jam – take another look and have a chuckle at the name, and the double yellow lines. Who knew they could inspire such a thing of beauty?
The blade is a 90×23mm Stefan Brostrom, and the handle is grey/yellow stab Box Elder. The overall length is 215mm. The scandi grind is a well loved and traditional bushcraft design. You can find some more great pics of this “Noh Pah King” knife on knifeforums.
Custom Scandi Wallpapers
Sadly I didn’t have a very large image to start with, so the higher res wallpapers have been scaled up, but I don’t think they’ve come out too badly in the end 
brostrom, bushcraft, custom, elder, fixed blade, scandi, wood
This great knife is a Bark River Pro Scalpel with a 2.875 inch blade of 52-100 steel, 0.135 thick at the spine. The overall length is around 5.5″. The handle material is blue & gold Elder Burl. “Barkies” have a lot of love on the forums, and looking at this knife you can’t fail to be impressed 
Enjoy the wallpapers, photography courtesy of Randy Samos – thanks buddy!
Bark River Pro Scalpel Knife Wallpaper
bark river, blue, brkt, elder, fixed blade, pro scalpel
(Ok ok, so I know I said there’d be no updates for a week or two but I just couldn’t resist when Tim Stetzer sent in this great photo – thanks!)
The knife was designed by Dan Certo of Relentless Knives and has been selected to be featured in the 2008 movie Punisher: War Zone. This knife, known as the “TOPS M4X”, has gray canvas micarta scales and a coated blade. It weighs in at a hefty 13½ inches OAL, with a 2-inch wide, ¼ inch thick blade that’s 8½ inches in length. A serious piece of kit!
There’s also a review by Tim of the knife for the July 2009 issue of Tactical Knives.
Punisher: War Zone Movie Knife Wallpapers
fixed blade, micarta, movie, punisher, relentless knives, serrations, survival, tactical
Randall Made Knives have become somewhat legendary. Perhaps it’s the history behind the knives, or maybe it’s the incredible wait-time on new orders – according to their FAQ, if you want to buy one now, you’ll be waiting until 2014 before it’s delivered. But whatever it is, Randall is one of the most respected, and well-known, custom knife makers out there.
Looking at this 7 inch stag handled Model 1 from Ken Lunde’s collection you can see why. Photo by Ken Lunde, used by permission, with thanks.
Randall Made Model One Knife Wallpapers
custom, fixed blade, history, lanyard, lunde, randall, sheath, stag
Ken Lunde has a gift when it comes to photographing great knives. This is a large Owyhee hunter by Scott Cook with 3.625″ Devin Thomas Black & White Spirograph Damascus blade and desert ironwood handles. And it’s just a great knife, well worth taking a closer look at the unique damascus pattern. Photo by Ken Lunde, used by permission, with thanks.
Scott Cook Owyhee Hunter Knife Wallpaper
damascus, devin thomas, fixed blade, ironwood, lanyard, lunde, owyhee, scott cook, wood
From Ken Lunde’s stunning collection of knife wallpapers comes this desktop background of a 7 inch Busse Combat Special Forces Natural Outlaw (SFNO) with hand-shaped blue/black G-10 micarta handles. Photo by Ken Lunde, used by permission, with thanks.
Busse Knife Wallpaper:
And as usual when there’s a higher resolution image available I’ll provide a link in case I haven’t covered your desktop resolution
blue, busse, combat, fixed blade, g10, lunde, micarta, sfno
This is truly a piece of artwork from Allred Custom Knives. It won of “Best Folder” at the 2008 Chicago Custom Knife Show and you can see why. The elegant curves of the design combined with the highest quality materials make this folding knife a visual masterpiece. Utilising Hakkapelitta Damasteel and Blacklip Mother of Pearl, this custom knife is sheer elegance.
Because I don’t think you can appreciate the fine detail in the wallpaper thumbnail above, I’m including a closeup here to encourage you to click through to the hi-res desktop images. It’s worth it!
Allred Sculpted Knife Wallpapers:
allred, art, custom, damascus, folder, mop, mother of pearl
Elvan Allred from allred knives posted this amazing picture of a japanese folding knife on KF and as soon as I saw it I just knew I had to feature it, it’s a striking knife and excellently photograhed – many thanks to Elvan for allowing me to use it Elvan tells us that this unusual folder was started by Akihisa Kawasaki (url?) and finished by Fred Carter after Kawasaki’s death, making it a unique collaboration.
UPDATE: Fred has provided some more details in the comments – thanks!
Kawasaki/Carter Knife Wallpapers
And here’s a massive 3225×2625 version if you want to customize it to your desktop resolution
carter, custom, engraving, folder, friction folder, japanese, kanji, kawasaki, wood
