Arkansas Custom Knife Show 2013 - Show Us what you Got

Here's an integral Bird&Trout knife for the Arkansas show. Feathered w's and stabilized African Ebony. A filed integral ball ferrule to accompany the keyhole handle.
3-1/8" blade and 7-3/8" overall.
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An upscale "Dragon Hunter" with a 6 bar, tight Turkish twist damascus blade 5-3/8" long and 10" overall. My signature metal handle, featuring Gil Rudolph's "raised" 24 carat gold inlay and engraving. Chuck Ward had to do 2 montages to capture all the detail. Paul Long leather and curly maple exhibition case.(sorry no photo yet)
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Here's a big bowie. Walrus Ivory and "Feathered Ladder" damascus forged from 24,000 layers of steel. My highest layer count damascus ever. A hollow stainless steel sheetmetal ferrule and feathered W's in the guard and pommel. A twist damascus finial for takedown purposes. About 11" long and 16" overall.
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I have one more to post tormorrow. Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend.
 
holy sh!# you guys!!!:eek::eek:
 
Thanks for the compliment Roger. I hope you didn't hurt yourself...let me help you get back into your chair!
 
Thanks Jamie and Bruce.
Jamie, our "friend" Mr. Chin should be boarding a plane in Taiwan in a few hours. I won't see him until Wednesday at the airport. I'll keep you posted on his behavior at the Arkansas show.;)
 
Oh man! This is going to be quite a show. I hope I get to see a few of these up close and personal. Thanks for posting all these beautiful blades.
 
Gorgeous work, Ron. Thanks for posting.

Glad that Jimmy will be with you this weekend. I look forward to seeing you both
and congratulating you on such a successful show on Jimmy's side of the world.

Gary
 
Jon, Eli, Gary and Joel, thanks!

Jon when I finished that blade you were the first person that popped into my mind as someone who'd appreciate the "feathered ladder" since you like ladder patterns so much.
 
Here's three that I will have in Arkansas, thanks for looking
Joel
 

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Good lookin folders Joel!

This is my last knife to post up for the Arkansas show. This is an all integral piece I geared up to put in the "Best pearl Knife" award categroy at the Arkansas show this weekend. It's got a 5 bar Turkish twist blade that's 5-1/8" long with an overall of 9-3/4".

The spiral inlay challenged me immensely and added grey hairs to my head for sure. The most difficult inlay I've ever done. I thought the black lip pearl really dressed up the colorful white pearl once finished. Coin gold pins attach the inlayed scales. There's quite a bit of shimmer in the steel.

The hardest thing about the inlaying is that my handmade plastic and epoxy pantograph patterns were very sensitive to temperature changes and the spiral tips actually would get cold on some days and shrink and coil up tighter, then the spiral tips woiuld heat up and expand to a larger spiral on warmer days. :grumpy: Never again is all I can say. Paul Long did a cool lizard skin inlayed sheath with the same spiral effect. Thanks for looking.

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Man, Newton's blowing it out. Think I'll set up a snowcone stand in the back.

Here's a couple I have ready. Still finishing up on some.

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