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Tai Goo

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Here's a new one that took forever to finish...

Overall length- 17-½ inches
Blade- 13 inches, 1095 with rainbow quench line
Fittings- Sterling silver
Handle- Brazilian rosewood

Sheath by Chuck Burrows, (AKA Wild Rose)

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That looks like it would be useful for serial killers! Lighter than an axe, and far more attractive to carry... while retaining that scary profile that say "you and your head will soon be parted".

Seriously, Tai, a fabulous piece.
 
I love the lines. That pieces flows really well. I particularly like the Gooey choil zig. It is uncommon to see a piece so unique and well done.
 
Oh good lord!

I am in awe.

Would you be able to describe how you achieved that/those temper lines?
 
What can I say? Another Gooey masterpiece! I really like the rainbow temper line and how
it flows with everything else.
 
… It took so long to finish, I forgot most of it. :(

All I remember is, it was one quench in canola without clay. Temps., and timing were intuitive.

What's weird is that every angle I shot the pix from the luster and colors changed.
 
Awesome stuff, Tai. The octagonal handle and silverwork are icing on the cake!

Bigblue17 said:
Would you be able to describe how you achieved that/those temper lines?
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I've watched it happen and I still don't get it. I just chalk it up to the fact that Tai has been doing this for almost as long as I've been alive.
 
A couple things we can see are that the curve of the “rainbow” is a thermal effect from the blade geometry and cooling rates,… as well as the multiple quench lines. Although the rate of emersion into the quenching medium was modulated, we can’t account for every line and detail. That part stays a mystery? However, the perpendicular “zebra stripes” or ashi lines seem to appear most often on fairly thin blades.

That part we can see.
 
Amazing Knife! Looks like it is just begging to cut off something, preferably body parts. :eek::D
Also great work by Chuck, no surprise there. :thumbup:
 
Very few makers can have such a tremendously individual style that you'd recognize it from a MILE away.

You certainly can do elegant Tai :) :thumbup: :cool:
 
Tai puts the Goo in good.

He also puts it in goofball.

Two reasons why he is one of my all-time inspirational crazy and wacky knifemakers! Nothing else looks like a Tai Goo blade.


Rick
 
man Tai, you got that rainbow quench down. This one is even more defined than the first one I saw all those years ago. I am totally in awe once again. Beautiful as usual.
 
Very nice, sir. That's some good looking Brazilian. Even the plain stuff is hard to find these days in suitable sizes unless you want to make a pool cue.
 
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