A Suprise, a Bowie and a Face

[Rossi Knives]

Greetings and happy Irish Day,

Here are a few knives I finished awaiting leather. The first is a very overbuilt drop point that I forged out of 1095. The temperline is completely accidental. The spine just did not get below 1000 degrees in time and I think the results are pretty darn cool. This knife is over 1/4 inch at the spine and the material under the wrap is tooled leather. I was trying to replicate Winter Bottom bone. The filework features a tiki guy, Kabuki mask and a mexican wrestler depending on who is holding it.

This one is a collaboration with my good friend Knifemaker Herb Kettel. Kind of a Kevlar Vest Pocket Bowie. Herb forged and heat treated the 1095 blade, I ground, polished, fileworked and handled it. The slabs are micarta and the pins are brass.

Thanks for looking!

-Nick

 

[Dan Pierson]

Very nice. I really like your creative filework.

 

[Phantom Steelworks]

Both are awesome...but that Pocket Bowie's filework is stellar!

Excellent work.

Chris

 

[Rossi Knives]

Thanks, Fellas!

 

[ScottRoush]

That is really nice file work. Makes me like filework again....

 

[Rossi Knives]

I know just what you mean.

I have personally had enough of raised rope and vine. Not that there is anything wrong with traditional filework patterns, but you won't see 'em on my knives.

-Nick

 

[nthe10ring]

Like both of them, especially the first one, and the unique file work on the second is really neat.

Jerry Fisher