80CrV2/304 Stainless laminate.

[irbailey]

Thought I'd share this one with you.....
This is my first attempt at making a laminate blade after reading Burt Foster's excellent thread on here a few weeks ago.
As the title says, it's an 80CrV2 carbon steel core laminated with 304 stainless. The guard is 410 stainless (thanks Marcus), handle is ebony and it has black and red fibre spacers.
It still needs sharpening and a final polish, but I don't do this until the sheath is done, as it saves all those cuts and scuffs.
Blade length is 3 5/8" overall length is 7 3/4"
Big thank you to Burt for taking time to answer my emails and help an amateur. Very much appreciated.:thumbup:

Thanks for looking.

Ian

 

[irbailey]

Here's a couple more shots I couldn't fit in the first post....

Cheers,

Ian

 

[ryan9977]

really neat lookin knife....i really like it....ryan:thumbup:

 

[Lorien]

whew! A knife finally, and not a bad lookin one at that:thumbup:
Thank you Ian! This place needs some new interesting knives to talk about
:thumbup:

 

[Dawkind]

GREAT job!

That's some fine looking steel and a real nice piece of work.....

 

[SBranson]

Very cool. I particularly like the spine shot.

With all the interest in the blade I almost missed how nice the "whole" knife is.
Nice work! :thumbup:

 

[Boggs]

Ian...

Very nice

 

[xaman]

Looks real good, nice work!

 

[irbailey]

Thanks for your comments.

Ian

 

[gundude73]

i like the contrast of the two blade steels. very well done :thumbup:

 

[steve betts]

beautiful work, well done

 

[stabber]

Very nice San Mai steel. Nice work Ian:thumbup:

 

[9908]

what a beautiful blade!

 

[irbailey]

Cheers for all your comments.
I did a WIP whilst making this if anyone is interested?
Not exactly ABS mastersmith standard, but I'll post it if anyone wants a laugh...

Ian

 

[Mark Knapp]

I like it

 

[RogerP]

That is really slick. I dig laminates. :thumbup:

Roger

 

[Steve Nuckels]

Wow! Beautiful! I like it!

Steve
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Potomac Forge

 

[Big Rick]

Ian, top job once again!! I'll have the next one you make. Will that be next week seeing as you pulled your finger out on that one lol.

 

[irbailey]

Ian, top job once again!! I'll have the next one you make. Will that be next week seeing as you pulled your finger out on that one lol.

I wish!!
Amazing what can be achieved when the kids don't come round to stay for a couple of weekends.
Knifemaking from fresh in the day, rather than doing it at night after a days 'proper' work also helps with productivity.
If only I could do it every day.....

Thanks for all the comments folks. :thumbup:

Ian

 

[mostho]

I was following your project elsewhere and I really fall in love everytime I see it.
all my possible compliments man!