2nd Hunter for Russell Show

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I just finished the second hunter with W-pattern damascus. The crummy picture does not do the knife justice. I just couldn’t get the whole knife to photo properly. The knife looks much better in hand.

This is my Cimarron Model hunter. The blade is W-Pattern damascus of 1084 & 15N20 steels. The guard is also W-Pattern damascus. Silicon bronze spacer and green mammoth ivory handle.

Blade Length: 4 3/8”
OAL: 8 7/8”

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oh man! That is gorgeous.

you guys are going to make me drive to Arkansas after all...
 
Beautiful little knife Steve - nice pattern and gorgeous ivory. I like the use of the same damascus for the guard.

Roger
 
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4/5 on the Blastmaster drooling scale.

Very nice hunter. My favourite folder materials (Damascus & Mammoth Ivory) in a fixed blade!

Nice work.:thumbup:

Kind regards,

Jos
 
Sweet looking hunter.
Interesting damascus pattern, nice material selection.
Lot to like there.
 
Steve,

This is a great piece. If I was to order a similar knife, I would want to have no quench line in the damascus. This is a taste issue, but I know I'm not the only one thinking like this. Maybe making the blade full hard and then drawing back the back would work? Not sure.
 
Great looking knife but I also would like it better without the quench line. I say that based on looking at the picture, holding it may change that opinion.

Peter
 
Thanks to all for the kind remarks about the knife.

This is a great piece. If I was to order a similar knife, I would want to have no quench line in the damascus. This is a taste issue, but I know I'm not the only one thinking like this. Maybe making the blade full hard and then drawing back the back would work? Not sure.
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It would be no problem to do a full quench and draw the spine to do away with the temper line. In fact, I typically do not like to have a temper line on my damascus blades. But, I know some people like to see them, so I did these hunters up with the quench line. I’m working on a damascus Bowie right now that is a full quench; so no temper line.

This is really a lousy photo of the knife. I should have waited until I got a good shot before posting, but I was getting impatient because I needed to get back out to the shop and work on more knives. I was having problems with the bronze spacer washing out and also getting a glare off of the polished handle material; because my lighting was too direct. I backed off of the lighting, but that caused the blade to look muddy and did not show the true color of the handle material. If I can get some time this weekend, maybe I’ll try to get a more representative shot of the knife and re-post.
 
I love the knife, except for the temper line.

Do as Joss say and it will look much better IMHO.

Other than that, its gorgeous! Congratulations!

Jeff Velasco
 
Love, love, love it. It's everything I like all in one pretty knife. I like the temper line.

I like the photo too. It's not crazy bright and over-contrasted with some pimp colors behind it like so many these days. It looks like a knife really looks in normal lighting.
 
Many times I don't care for temper lines in Damascus but in this case is flowes with the damascus pattern running thru the mid point of the blade. I love to play with photos so here is this image with some minor adjustments done in DIP 10.

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Bit more contrast, bit deeper image, some minor sharpening and a bit of burning. All relatively simple things to do which hopefully add something to the image. I'm not sure I'd spend more time re photographing the knife until you have exhausted the things that your image editing program can accomplish.
 
Here is a more representative photo of the knife. The colors of the handle are much more accurate in this photo.

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Murry,

Thanks for your attempts to edit the first photo. I had done a bunch of editing on it too, but the lighting was so wrong that I could not get it to look correct.
 
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