Buggy spring knife

Raymond Richard

Raymond Richard

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I've had a little piece of buggy spring about 3" long sitting on the lid of a trash can in my shop for about a year and finally decided to see if I could turn it into a blade. With something that small first thing I did was hammer the width back into itself and turned it from 1 1/4" X 3" X 1/4" to 1" X 5" X 1/4" and then I forged it into a blade. I now have a finished knife. The blade is 5" and overall its 9 1/2". The piece of sambar stag was alittle shorter than what I wanted for this handle so I added a rosewood spacer. Iron was again used for the fittings.

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That's ANOTHER beauty Ray!

I really like the rosewood spacer, and the buttcap --- very nicely done (but we've come to expect that from you) :thumbup: :thumbup:
 
That is one beautiful looking piece of buggy spring, very fine job. :thumbup:

Todd



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Ray, Your work is very impressive. The components of that knife work very well together. Hard to beat honest work.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
Ray, I gotta say that I think your knives have improved greatly over the last couple of years.
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Keith, I think what your seeing is more of a refined look to most my work now. Just a few months ago I was thinking about re inventing myself but after a lot of thought I still like the box I've been working out of. I'm just making it a larger box. How long ago was it since you were trying to get the Canadian Knife Forum going, 2002? That was about the time I first started developing the style that I'm working off of today. I hope I've changed for the better. :D
 
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