Welome to Campsite 18

Purchaseables to rattle your creative brain

What is Campsite 18? Campsite 18 is a backcountry campsite in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. During high school and college I had various adventures at this site ranging from bear encounters to an evangelist on horseback to forgetting a flashlight on a dark and stormy solo trip.

It’s a place where I learned, through trial and error, how to pack lightly, build a fire, cook a camp meal, catch a trout. I laughed with friends, called in screech owls, and scoured burnt pans with the sand of the Middle Prong River.

Like Campsite 18, may the products offered here create tangible memories for those who choose to adventure with us.

Products

Rustic knives with native North American wood handles*. All knives are designed and cut from steel then drilled and forge-heated to correct hardness. Wooden scales are shaped to fit each unique design, pinned, epoxied in place, and finished with several coats of Tung oil or poly.

Cutting/Charcuterie boards Live edge native woods with a butcher block oiled finish and hand-dyed leather strap.

Fish Filet/Scaling boards All native woods and a heavy duty clamp.

Key rings made from found antler, bone, or native wood with a brass eyelet.

*Or bone or antler

*The Opinels are purchased and then the handles are hand carved, stained, and finished.

Chestnut

SOLD
American chestnut

SOLD
Knob knives (Maple and Walnut)

$130
Oyster Knife - walnut w antler ring

$180
Cedar chopper (Eastern red cedar)

$130
Chestnut

$130
Deer bone carver (found deer bone)

SOLD
Small cleaver (walnut)

SOLD
Maple slicer (Red maple)

SOLD
Small Cleaver

SOLD
Walnut skinner

SOLD
Chestnut oyster knife

$160.00
Walnut oyster knife

$160.00

The Noontootla Rainbow - One of a series of three species of trout inspired knives. Perfect to take along on your favorite trout stream. $150.00

Key rings made from various species of wood. Currently in stock: walnut, maple, cherry. Also deer bone and antler available. All have a brass eyelet. $23.00

Made with dry, calloused, and progressively arthritic hands in the North Georgia mountains. This obsession began with carving simple Amazon-ordered basswood blocks. It then turned into carving backyard sticks. Soon, this hobby morphed into the beautiful steel and local wood incorporated knives. All products are one-of-a-kind. Feel free to ask me anything.