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He used his abilities to shape metal to make artistic knives, for the pure joy of making them. This is a KRIS, a Malayasian knife, that has a rigid formula for its construction. The number of curves must be an uneven number, the handle should able to be broken off after it has been stuck into a man, and so on. He made the handle of mammoth ivory, including the dark brown stripes which are bands of ivory stained by copper 
salts. The second photo is from the 1949 Salt Lake Tribune article and shows three other knives that he made, each patterned on a famous knife. The scabbard for the Kris is shaped of sheets of copper. The beautiful dagger, second from right, appears in the next photo, stuck into the sand between the skulls. The handle is also made out of various cuts of mammoth ivory.
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