Buxton's Stars and Stripes "pic"

[B . Buxton]

I 've been wanting to make a patriotic knife for some time now, and I findly got things together.
Oal 8 3/4" w/ 4 1/8" blade. The blade, guard and pommel are all made from the same billet, which was made up by combining 3 different damascus billets. 1 billet was 1095 & 15n20, 1 was 1080 & 15n20 and the third was 1084 and 4800E. The handle material is sambar stag.
What do you all think?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[B . Buxton]

Heres a pic of the guard

 

[B . Buxton]

and here's a pic of the butt cap

 

[Sweany]

OK, that does it. I quit. Man what a dandy, yanke-doodle that is

 

[Burchtree]

Damn that is beautiful -- I have no idea how you do that stuff.

 

[SamuraiDave]

Almost looks like the Texas state flag.

I think you should send it to me for further inspection.

 

[Greg Covington]

Bill.....

OOOF! That is OUTSTANDING!!!

Blows my socks off!

Great job!

 

[fitzo]

Well done, my friend. Told ya you'd "get it" in no time flat. Congrats on adding a new advanced skill to your repertoire! Cool knife, Bill.

 

[Bruce Evans]

Very-Very COOO OOOO OOOOL !!!!!!!!!!!!
Bill you are doing some really awesome Damascus,Maybe I will learn how someday
Bruce

 

[Joss]

Cool. For good or bad the liners represent quite exactly a French flag too...

 

[B . Buxton]

Thanks Guys,

Joss, my mother always said if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. French Flag, man that sucks.:barf:

Bill

 

[Joss]

Yep - the French flag is just 3 vertical stripes, blue, white, and red. It comes from royalty (white) kept in check by city folks (red and blue are the colors of Paris) and it was adopted after the Revolution. Not a bad symbol alltogether, nonewithstanding the current events.

 

[Sylvester]

Danm

 

[Burchtree]

I just see the ol' Red, White, and Blue!

 

[Ripper]

That's very nicely done Bill.
Great to see your knife in the July
Tactical Knives magazine, congrats.
Regards,
Greg

 

[Bruce Bump]

Bill, Thats a dandy! I stood up and saluted on this one. Nice cannister work.

 

[indian george]

I love the damascus and overall appearance.

 

[Dan Gray]

french nice work Bill French

 

[RHINOKNIVES]

that makes me stand and salute! JOSS you should be tarred and feather for even posting that name next to such a beautiful piece of americana. besides the french didn't even invent the damn crosaint pasty roll. the austrians defeated the ottomans in europe and the bakers modeled it after the crecent moon on the ottoman flag in celibration.

 

[rlinger]

Absolutely remarkable workmanship. Very well done. All the knife, not just the blade but all parts, are well done indeed to me. Very well done! A remarkable piece of work to me.

Carry on.

Roger