A Peek at my latest Billet

[Mike Turner]

Hi all,

I have been working on a award knife for the OKCA show in April in Eugene Oregon so I have been working like a mad man trying to get this billet done. Once I get a little more ahead I will do a WIP on it. I will be using this billet for the guard and the frame handle.

After posting my last knife "The Trailing Point Hunter" I was contacted by another forum user and have been commissioned to make him one of my Bird and Trout knives in Damascus. He expressed he wanted a tight pattern so hope this will work for his knife as well. I will keep him private if he wishes to chime in that would be cool.

This billet really has given the wife heck trying ti photograph it. This is a very compressed "W" Billet it is 1 1/2" X 2".

Hope you all like it .

 

[Lorien]

reminds me of Poltergeist.

 

[D lisch]

Mike that is cool think it will open up nicely.

 

[Mike Turner]

Lorien, now you mention it, it does look supernatural hope I did not catch any bad spirits in that O.O.

I knew you would like it Dave, I am planning on doing my first feather pattern with this one.

 

[Gary Mulkey]

Now that is tight! Very nice. Keep us posted.

Gary

 

[Don Hanson III]

Mike, like Gary said, that is tight. Should look good in a feather pattern.

 

[Mike Turner]

Thanks Gary and Don, I can not wait to see how this opens up.

 

[RobertJ]

Beautiful. Looks like grass swaying in a meadow.

 

[Gary Mulkey]

I just started my first attempt at a w's pattern today. It won't be anywhere near as tight as what you're building however. I guess that I've caught the "bug".

Gary

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

PLease take some pics of how you open it up.
Accordion or tile/flip?

 

[T.K.C.]

I like it!

 

[Mike Turner]

Thanks guys .

Gary have fun I messed up my first "W" billet ended up drawing it out the wrong way LOL look like seaweed.

Karl generally I been taking about a 1" cut off the billet. I am not sure what I am going to do with this one yet. I may try taking a 1" piece and see if it will stand the stress if not I will have to tile it. I don't think I want to try accordion fold on this maybe the next one .