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Rob Cole

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About 7.8" OAL, 2.8" blade. Made from 1/16 1095. Copper scales made from scrap pipe, cut in half and hammered flat, textured with a dremel engraver, then cold blued to add some age. It probably needs some more steel wool, but here it is.

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That's really interesting - can we see a shot of the scales from above?
 
Yep - in the first picture you can see the cleanup work I mentioned, the rings around the rivets. Maybe i should have finished the scales before hammering them together? I can almost see the hamon through the gun blue.

In the second picture you can see the texture I put on the scales with the engraver.

btw this is an old blade that I had previously wrapped. No time to start new projects before vacation next week,so I figured I'd play with some copper. One functional reason is that this is differentially hardened, and the hardened area does not extend very far into the tang. Steel this thin bends easily, so the copper sandwich strengthens it up a bit.

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Thanks - that is a really cool effect!

I've saved this one in my "interesting knives" folder.

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Thanks! To be fair, I was inspired by some of Serge Panchenko's knives over on the custom forum . Just some experimentation on my part as I continue my learning process.
 
That is very cool! I have a copper scaled knife in the works, it is nice looking material.
 
I like it; very cool!

I may have to try working with copper sometime!
 
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