2007 Fisk Micro Show - Preview

Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones

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Jerry's Micro Show is just around the corner so though you may be interested in previewing some of the knives as they are finished. Harvey Dean and Lin Rhea will join us this year on October 19-20.

It's just a super, very relaxed knife weekend in the beautiful Arkansas countryside. Well on second thought, not too relaxed untill we finish wresling over the knives. :eek: ;)

Lot of special stuff going on this year, trip to the ABS school, the BFB Bowie drawing and more. And of course, always good down home food.

First of all, this big bad boy will find a home:

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Southwest Bowie
with frame handle

This piece is forged from a 5160 round bar of steel. It has a stainless guard and bolster. I do not do many framed handles in this size knife so that makes this one fairly rare. The bolster is silver brazed onto the frame handle. It has a nice desert iron wood handle that is shaped to fit the hand. Desert iron wood is getting harder to get and getting more expensive.The blade is approx 8 inches long. The back of handle has the a fan blade shape to it to set it off nicely. Very simple layout on the engraving, I thought just a touch on this piece so as to not over do it but I just gotta try to put an ear ring on the pig. It is just my nature. Hope you like it. This will be a book knife as I plan on not doing this particular type of set up again.

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Biscuit Snatcher

This is nice little 5 inch blade bowie with a newer style handle. I like it personally. It weighs in at slightly under 6 ounces. This one if forged from W2 round bars. The stainless guard is engraved with a road kill flower that butts up to the Desert Ironwood handle. This is a doozie that any Ozark-American would like to carry [we are not referred to as Hillbillies any more]. This one is also a book knife. I am trying to be careful and make most of the pieces for the Micro Show to be book pieces.

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South West Bowie
Intergal with full tang Can't wait to see this one
This is a rough forging of a new piece for me. I was having to do a demo and thought just go ahead and do something for a demo that I had not done before. Yeah, thats real smart. Anyway, this is what I ended up with. At this point I think I will go back into the forge and lengthen out the handle about 1/2 inch. This one will have to have a wood handle of some sort I am quite sure due to the handle size and shape, but we will take a look at it again when it is rough ground. W2 carbon steel from a round bar.

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Shown is the blade rough ground to 60 grit so that I have the distal tapers and the general feel of it.
Before I did the grinding on it I put it back in the forge and lengthened out the handle by another 1/2 inch and then turned the back of the handle in a bit more. You can look at the photo above this one back and forth and you can see that it helped the overall appearence and the grip of it.


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An Absolute Beautiful Bowie from Lin Rhea.
Perhaps Lin will share the specificatons on this one.

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great thread Kevin. Nice knives too. I really like the Lin Rhea piece. Chuck does a great photo job and boy do I wish I could learn how he and Coop get such nice clean insets of the secondary images.
 
Darn it Kevin that Blade Forum Bowie has a home I just have to wait till Jerry's Scoundrel & Scalawag Show to pick it up. Plus and hopefully some sweet knives from Jerry, Lin and Harvey.;) :D
 
As much as will be going on this year, I believe the Fisk Micro Show will be a highlight for me! I'm very excited about it!:D

Some of the specs about knife #1 :

Blade: 9 14 inch W2 edge quenched
Handle: Sambar Stag
Fittings: Silicon Bronze (will have a natural patina by then)
OAL: 14 1/2 inch
Sheath: Hi-ride Cross Draw by Kenny Rowe

I finally feel like its time to talk about this show. I've been kind of keeping quiet about it till now, so lookout! Its a privilege to be included and I will do my best to "bump up" my work and introduce some new things for me. Also, I will do my best to contribute to the overall purpose for which the Micro Show was created. I have admired Jerry's work for a while now and look forward to getting to know Harvey Dean, although his work speaks for itself.

For those who may be interested, I am planning to take the performance part of the Mastersmith test while at Jerry's. This will be at a time when it wont interfere with the regular program.

I'll have more knives to post soon and, of course, look forward to seeing more of Jerry's and Harvey's knives.
Thanks, Lin:)
 
Both Jerry's and Lin's knives are great looking. I can't wait to see what else will be coming. I'm sure that they will be spectacular to see and to handle. Jim Treacy
 
Keith, I will continue to post photos as pieces are completed.

Lin, I was surprised that your Bowie is 14 1/2". To me, the photo make it look more like a midsize Bowie. Beautiful peice regardless of length.

Jerry's intergal Southwest Bowie is going to be a very special piece and rare.

One of the things that sets this show apart from some are the unique pieces the makers bring.
 
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Jerry Fisk - Field Grade Fighter Bowie
The steel is 5160 double tempered. I have split the stag taper and made scales from it that fits well in the hand with good texture. The mountings are O1 steel and have been browned. The Blade is approx 8 inches long, the entire knife weighs approx 11 ounces with the balance point of the knife being right at the ferrule behind the guard. The pommel is carved to fit the grooves in the stag.

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Lin Rhea - African Blackwood Southwest Bowie
The blade is 8 inches of 5160 in SW style. The handle is through tang construction and is African Blackwood that has some brown tones mixed in. The fittings are all Stainless. The blade is 5/16 at the ricasso and 1/4 at the start of the clip, which is sharp.

It has a satin finish on the whole knife, giving it a nice look (to me), almost with a patina. I decidede to play around with a graver and literally scratched out a pattern on the butt, which also adds to it's folksy, antique look. I plan on having Kenny Rowe make a sheath with a lot of black in it for this knife.
 
Lin had that stag bowie in Atlanta...I know 'cuz I tried to buy it for 3 days :D

Special show - special knife is what he told me!

Looks to be a lot of fun, still trying to work out attendence.

Beautiful knives, good luck with THE show!
 
Dang it Kevin I told you when I bought those tickets that the Forum Bowie was won. Now your teasing all these poof folks with our knives! Man your just Mean.;):D:thumbup::D:thumbup::D
 
quick question for jerry- what do you mean when you say it will be a book knife?....thanks....ryan
 
Many more to come over the next seven weeks or so.
Jerry those browned fittings really complement the colors in the stag well. Great example of a Classic ABS Fighter.

Lin, beautiful piece. That's a very unique piece of African black with the alternating light and dark grain. Like the filework and a nice touch with the engraving.
 
Chuck - Your image of Lin's African Blackwood Southwest Bowie is fantastic!
 
Lovely pieces...

I commend Lin on choosing bronze for his fittings. Lovely color (of course it won't keep, but still...)

I like all of Jerry's knives. My fav' is the mid size Southwest bowie. I'm curious to see how the integral turns out - I'm not convinced yet that this blade shape goes well with the round integral bolster, but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.
 
Joss said:
Lovely pieces...

I commend Lin on choosing bronze for his fittings. Lovely color (of course it won't keep, but still...)

I like all of Jerry's knives. My fav' is the mid size Southwest bowie. I'm curious to see how the integral turns out - I'm not convinced yet that this blade shape goes well with the round integral bolster, but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.
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Bill Moran did a few hidden tang integral Southwesterns in his time and they looked pretty good to me:D I think that it is exciting to see guys like Jerry, Burt Foster, Ray Kirk, the guys from Brazil and others playing around with intregrals.
 
lwrhea said:
As much as will be going on this year, I believe the Fisk Micro Show will be a highlight for me! I'm very excited about it!:D

Some of the specs about knife #1 :

Blade: 9 14 inch W2 edge quenched
Handle: Sambar Stag
Fittings: Silicon Bronze (will have a natural patina by then)
OAL: 14 1/2 inch
Sheath: Hi-ride Cross Draw by Kenny Rowe

I finally feel like its time to talk about this show. I've been kind of keeping quiet about it till now, so lookout! Its a privilege to be included and I will do my best to "bump up" my work and introduce some new things for me. Also, I will do my best to contribute to the overall purpose for which the Micro Show was created. I have admired Jerry's work for a while now and look forward to getting to know Harvey Dean, although his work speaks for itself.

For those who may be interested, I am planning to take the performance part of the Mastersmith test while at Jerry's. This will be at a time when it wont interfere with the regular program.

I'll have more knives to post soon and, of course, look forward to seeing more of Jerry's and Harvey's knives.
Thanks, Lin:)
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Ok, Lin....give it up. How are you edge quenching that W2? The reason I ask is that I have what could be a perfect JS test knife in W2....well perfect but for it being a hidden tang blade, but it is a wide tang.......but I am concerned that using clay might not leave the spine soft enough for the bend test. I have also been worried about edge quenching not getting the edge hard enough. HELP!!!!:D
 
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