Bill DeShivs - Cutler, Craftsman

www.billdeshivs.com

I make, design, repair, and restore fine cutlery.
I do plating- electroless nickel, electroless cobalt, nickel, silver, and gold.
I make small gun parts such as leaf springs, firing pins, exotic pistol grips. I do not have a FFL.
I am a hand engraver and jeweler. I also do machine engraving.

Please visit my web site to see what I offer. I'm happy that Shooter 45 asked me to post here!
I'll be posting pictures of my work periodically.

I am also an authorized repair center for the following knife companies:

Colonial
Latama
Hubertus
Grafrath
Kuno Ritter
Mauro Mario
KABAR
Presto (G. Schrade)
Schrade Walden
Flylock
Lepre

 

Here are a few pictures to start.

 

I do make firing pins for many hammer-fired semiautomatic pistols. I properly fit them to your slide and install them.
I don't make firing pins for striker-fired pistols.
If you have any oddball ideas or requests, run them by me.

 

Here's a small knife that came in for a new leaf spring.....

 

Here's one I just finished for a customer.
1/8" 1084 high carbon steel blade, 1095 springs, coined brass liners, nickel silver fittings, and pearl laminate handles.

 

Heres a small (7 inch) knife I made recently.
1084 high carbon steel, copper and nickel silver ferrule.

 

Here is some of my recent work. People seem to like the little autos!

 

A little engraving on a knife made by AGA Campolin in Italy.....

 

I have recently added a 3 dimensional pantograph milling machine and a Unimat mini lathe to my arsenal of tools.

 

Today I updated www.billdeshivs.com with lots more pictures of my work.

 

Another custom Leverletto. 1084 blade, 1095 springs, laminated abalone handles, nickel silver fittings.

 

Here's a little gun work I did for myself. It's a Beretta M-4 Minx barrel on a Model 21 .22lr gun. It may be the only 4" M21 Beretta around.

 

Here is my engraved, nickel plated Keltec P32.

 

As I may have mentioned, I'm building a legal, registered 20 ga. double barreled pistol.
The factory engraving on the action was really bad, so I tried to camouflage it with my engraving.
This side is finished. When side 2 is done, I'll nickel plate it, have it reassembled, submit the tax forms (and the $200). Once the stamp comes back, I'll cut the barrels to about 10".
It's actually more a copy of the 1969 Holland Arms A/B gun.




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Bill DeShivs
www.billdeshivs.com

 

Thought I would do a little updating.
The tax stamp came in, and the SBS pistol is finished.
And I added a few knife pics, too.