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A few weeks before the holidays I was privileged to take part in a bowie build off competition against/ with Ryan Weeks. The premise of the competition is really awesome Jonathan Porter and Alex Eisenberg from Dog House Forge got together with Pete's Kustom Koa and decided to sponsor a build off between two makers. The makers were selected on popular vote via Instagram and we were both provided with one billet of twist damascus from Dog House Forge, a block of koa from Pete, and some stainless steel guard stock. Our directions were to forge a large bowie blade (at least 8 inches) and to finish the knife by January. After we are both done there will be a vote that happens on Instagram for who made the better knife.
Ryan and I decided to share our blades and some WIP photos on here as well to show some of the cool things going on in the blade community. So without further ado here is my build.
The billet we received was approximately 9" x 1 1/4" x 3/8" and we were each given one block of koa (our choice).

They also provided us with a back up bar of O1 in case we had any issues during heat treatment. We both decided to go with harpoon point recurves (unbeknownst to the other). Here is my rough forged blade.

Then a quick profiling:

And the finished knife (Final dimensions were 15 1/4 inches overall length, .28" thick at the ricasso):

Also since the lighting is not the beast in my photo I have provided a short video showing some of the details of the knife.
[video=youtube;dFVHMNQqUhM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFVHMNQqUhM&feature=em-upload_owner[/video]
Thanks for looking and let me know what you think! I'm sure Ryan will be posting his images shortly and his knife came out pretty awesome!
-Robert
Ryan and I decided to share our blades and some WIP photos on here as well to show some of the cool things going on in the blade community. So without further ado here is my build.
The billet we received was approximately 9" x 1 1/4" x 3/8" and we were each given one block of koa (our choice).

They also provided us with a back up bar of O1 in case we had any issues during heat treatment. We both decided to go with harpoon point recurves (unbeknownst to the other). Here is my rough forged blade.

Then a quick profiling:

And the finished knife (Final dimensions were 15 1/4 inches overall length, .28" thick at the ricasso):

Also since the lighting is not the beast in my photo I have provided a short video showing some of the details of the knife.
[video=youtube;dFVHMNQqUhM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFVHMNQqUhM&feature=em-upload_owner[/video]
Thanks for looking and let me know what you think! I'm sure Ryan will be posting his images shortly and his knife came out pretty awesome!
-Robert