Another Batch. Starting a nice pile of Blade Show Knives

[Fiddleback]

I'm in a terrible rush right now, but wanted to get some pics up. 3D Spalted Steel is the best thing since sliced bread IMHO.

These are 3rd Degree Spalted CPM 154

 

[Fiddleback]

These are for orders. All 3D Spalted CPM 154

 

[Shaw Blades]

Those look really great. Wish I was going to this show just so I could get the top one. Nice work.

 

[The_Dave]

Cannot. Wait.

 

[newyork]

Holy sheep shit thats a nice batch. Love the spalted and your handles look great.

 

[macmiddlebrooks]

always awesome and inspired, never resting on laurels.

 

[kilua]

wow...talk about eye candy! great work Andy!

 

[fod]

beauty!

 

[ColtMan]

Sexy steel indeed ! If you decide to make a Snubnose in CPM 154 I'll make room in my house for it

 

[chainring]

Words are insufficient.

 

[BloodGroove4570]

Pic #5 and #6 what are those knives called??? I really like that style blade..

 

[Fiddleback]

That's the camp knife. 7" blade.

 

[Stratmeister]

Those look really great. Wish I was going to this show just so I could get the top one. Nice work.

You'd have to beat me there...

Andy, what are the handles of these two made of

 

[Fiddleback]

Those are Baltic Birch.

 

[BBQ BOY]

I hope to see you at Blade this year and some of your nice knives.

 

[bkduckworth]

Crazy nice stuff! I can't even pick a favorite.

Brandon

 

[silverbullets]

That's the camp knife. 7" blade.

also referred to as "NEXT" LOL

 

[Mistwalker]

Stunning as usual Andy, but that 3D spalting is something else!!

Wish I had the money to jump on that bottom Hiking Buddy or bottom Recluse, either would be fantastic for a project I am working on.

 

[scruffuk]

Those look really great. Wish I was going to this show just so I could get the top one. Nice work.

Those are Baltic Birch.

Forgive me but that's Masur or Karelian Birch, named after the Karelian regions of Russia & Finland. The patterns are caused by a beetle larvae attacking the cambium apparantly.

I love the stuff and use it on my puukko as much as I can.

These do look beautiful pieces Andy. Great work :thumbup:

I'm still undecided about the 3D spalting effect.

 

[Fiddleback]

Masur birch, Baltic Birch, and Karelian Birch are interchangeable terms on this side of the pond. The wood company I order it from calls it Baltic Birch. The stores here in Atlanta call it Masur Birch. Lots of woods have this multi-name thing going on. Osage Orange, for example has more than I can ever remember.