Photos Bird and Trout! Let's See 'Em!

Andrew Newell said:
What would ya like to know about your knife?

Well I guess considering this is only the second knife I've made just tell it like it is. I take criticism well and just trying to make a decent knife in my spare time. I know I have a lot to improve on...especially the finishing touches and sharpening. Those proved to be the most challenging. My arms wanted to fall off from all the sanding....and I don't really know the hardness of the blade. Using propane forge with no thermocouple so I'm heating by color which for a rookie like me is probably a bad idea...
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Sorry took a while to get back to ya. The bummer is its not likely to be a good knife at all. AEB-L simply doesn't heat treat well, if at all, in those conditions. I make a lot of knives from AEB-L, probably as many as anybody, its a great steel but its not one ya can heat treat in a forge. Look for some 1084 or 1080. How thick is your knife at the spine and how thick is it just behind the secondary bevel, the edge? Ya ought to post a picture of it over here: https:

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Ya get a lot of in put there from many knife makers.
 
Horsewright said:
Sorry took a while to get back to ya. The bummer is its not likely to be a good knife at all. AEB-L simply doesn't heat treat well, if at all, in those conditions. I make a lot of knives from AEB-L, probably as many as anybody, its a great steel but its not one ya can heat treat in a forge. Look for some 1084 or 1080. How thick is your knife at the spine and how thick is it just behind the secondary bevel, the edge?

Thanks for the reply. Yes I get this is not really the right thread for this discussion so this will be my last post on this thread. I wanted a steel for wet conditions so tried the AEB-L. I have a lot of O-1 that I plan to learn with, but will pick up some 1084. I am out of town at this week but will measure when I get back home and message you. Take care.
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Carboniferous said:
Anyone try the new Queen City bird and trout? Considering it as a pocket EDC
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Essentially a copy of the queen #85, it's probably not bad for the price but I personally would avoid it and look for a real one on the secondary market.

I have a very early #85 from the 30's and I really love it, it is a great little knife that's practically a scalpel.
Mine is carbon steel of some kind but most were the " queen steel " , I'm not sure what kind of SS they used.
 
Hickory n steel said:
Essentially a copy of the queen #85, it's probably not bad for the price but I personally would avoid it and look for a real one on the secondary market.

I have a very early #85 from the 30's and I really love it, it is a great little knife that's practically a scalpel.
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I definitely do plan on picking up a Queen #85 if I end up liking the small fixed blade in a pocket. Along with a Kabar Little Fin and a few other small fixed blades
 
A new design of mine since last posted in this thread. I call it a Cowboy Toothpick but it makes a perfect B & T. I make them in AEB-L stainless and 26C3 high carbon:

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I got this cheap because the invisible pommel-nut isn't.
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It must have been super-cheap, because toy-sized handles on short blades irritate me right through my equanimity. Add to that the anvil-sized pommel right between my fingers... you can see I had to streamline it a bit.
 
Sacto said:
I really like that one, Dave. It looks nice and compact. What’s the overall length?
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I was checking the website to tell ya too and then saw cbach8tw cbach8tw beat me to er. There are always slight variations in my knives but thats the measurements of that first pic, the one with turquoise colored stabilized box elder handle. It has a Horizontal sheath.

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Interesting lil back story on the design. I originally designed the Cowboy Toothpick as a slender somewhat straight knife to take up that last spot on the sheet of steel where I couldn't quite fit any of my other designs in, they wouldn't fit. But it was that deal too much steel there not to use, so I came up with the Cowboy Toothpick to fit in there and get one more knife out of that sheet. Kinda backfired I guess, well not really, as the design became so popular that I cuet em out and make em on purpose nowadays, not just when I have a little leftover:

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Its also handy in that ya often have some small pieces of handle materials left over. This design doesn't take much and so helps save on waste that way too, such as thisBuckeye Burl handle above and here:

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Ramshorn has been a very popular handle material on this model:

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Really the only two of my sheaths tha I've made for this knife are the Horizontal:

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And the Slotted:

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A large percentage of customers opt to get both for this knife (when I make them for. our website the have one or the other but the customer can always have another optional sheath made). The Slotted goes under your belt and can be worn 360 degrees from one side of the buckle to the other on a belt, but it also drops in a pocket pretty darn well

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cbach8tw said:
I really enjoy my Horsewright Sonoran Belt knife.View attachment 1929174
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Glad ya like that guy. The Sonoran Belt Knife is a great Bird and Trout. I was going through my box of heat treated blades to start a new batch yesterday and realized out of about 80 blades in that box I didn't have any more Sonoran Belt Knives. So here's the last one for a while:

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Horsewright said:
Glad ya like that guy. The Sonoran Belt Knife is a great Bird and Trout. I was going through my box of heat treated blades to start a new batch yesterday and realized out of about 80 blades in that box I didn't have any more Sonoran Belt Knives. So here's the last one for a while:

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Thanks for sharing, beautiful blade in that stag.
 
Horsewright said:
I was checking the website to tell ya too and then saw cbach8tw cbach8tw beat me to er. There are always slight variations in my knives but thats the measurements of that first pic, the one with turquoise colored stabilized box elder handle. It has a Horizontal sheath.

6hhIHd7.jpg


Interesting lil back story on the design. I originally designed the Cowboy Toothpick as a slender somewhat straight knife to take up that last spot on the sheet of steel where I couldn't quite fit any of my other designs in, they wouldn't fit. But it was that deal too much steel there not to use, so I came up with the Cowboy Toothpick to fit in there and get one more knife out of that sheet. Kinda backfired I guess, well not really, as the design became so popular that I cuet em out and make em on purpose nowadays, not just when I have a little leftover:

UedWlho.jpg


Its also handy in that ya often have some small pieces of handle materials left over. This design doesn't take much and so helps save on waste that way too, such as thisBuckeye Burl handle above and here:

570KlgE.jpg


Ramshorn has been a very popular handle material on this model:

NcYdVA9.jpg


9b6xtor.jpg


Really the only two of my sheaths tha I've made for this knife are the Horizontal:

fPfXN2g.jpg


And the Slotted:

nw0J9y5.jpg


A large percentage of customers opt to get both for this knife (when I make them for. our website the have one or the other but the customer can always have another optional sheath made). The Slotted goes under your belt and can be worn 360 degrees from one side of the buckle to the other on a belt, but it also drops in a pocket pretty darn well

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oVDB2BF.jpg


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Thanks for the info, Dave. Interesting to hear how it came about.
 
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