440C recurve with African Blackwood

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The pics aren't great, but I love this knife

It is 440C with African blackwood and a mosaic pin.

It also has a nice file pattern in the spine to give it added appeal.

I had it Rockwell tested and it came in at 58. I was happy with that

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Matt,i have been wanting to get one of your recurve in 440,just cnt seen to get any pict.from the forum on this one??let me know,thanks
Marc
 
That's just beautiful. I'm very interested. Could you please provide the proverbial specs.~thickness, lengths, ect.? Hard to know from a picture. Thanks.
 
The steel is about 5/32 thick
Blade length is 3 1/2"
OAL is just a tick over 8"

One thing I should add is that I am waiting on a stencil for applying my mark. It should be in by Wednesday. So it will have a mark on it also.
 
Early birds. You guys get all the cool stuff.;)

Thanks for the offer to make one to my specs, Derkins. If I could wave my magic wand and make one to my liking I'd have it just like that but 0.2 - 0.25 thick, 5"-6" long, and I'd love to see the file work come clear down the spine. What do you think?
 
I think it is doable. Would you still want it in 440C or would you rather go for a tool steel with a nice hamon? And do you mean 5-6" long overall, or blade length?
 
Seriously, you'd do that? I meant 5-6" blade. Do you think the 440C loses it's appeal and strength on bigger knives, or I should say, why do you ask. My little bit of knowledge about steels makes me lean towards Dentretic D2 tool steel, but that's just cuz my buddy Gerome Weinand swears by it and I trust my life with his knives. He cryo treats the steel though, so it's toughness skyrockets. I don't know what happens without the cryo, but the edges hold forever and I can pry a can of beans open with it. Plus it's pretty much stainless, ya know? If I had my drothers I'd go D2. The tool steel with a nice hammon sounds pretty cool though. What steel do you have?

I love the shapes, love the handle, love the whole thing. I'd have taken this beauty here, but I hesitated. I knew I should have "I'll taked it" and asked questions later, but maybe this will work out better. You could do the file work right down the spine, too. I've always thought that just brings a blade to another level, ya know? Looks so fancy with spine filework. Do you do different patterns of filing? Dinners on, and the wife's yelling. Gotta go for now.
 
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