Camp Knife

Love the hidden lanyard. Very nice leather work, makes mine look like pre-school work.
 
Thanks everybody for your kind words.

  1. Rick, I normalized at 1600˚, 1400˚, and 1250˚. Then austenitized at 1485˚, in an Evenheat oven with a 10 minute soak. Quench was in 140˚ Parks 50. Triple tempered @ 400˚ for 2 hrs each. I don't have a Rockwell hardness tester but it passed the brass rod test with flying colors.
 
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That's lovely :thumbup: Lots of great (but not overwhelming) details on a good clean design. :)
 
Beautiful knife! How did you engrave your name on the blade? Do you have a laser engraver or something?

I'm working on #4 and I have a long way to go before mine look like that...
 
Super nice. Very clean design. All that is needed and nothing more.

Maybe stamp the leather at an angle to fit better in the space?
 
Thanks for all your kind words. I have a long way to go but I'm really trying hard to get there.
 
(came to this thread, since you posted a link in the white micarta thread).

I'd love to see a WIP on your techniques. Very, very nice flow. How do you get the handle so even on both sides? Nice shape.
 
You could sell a lot of these. I usually have nothing good to say about a knife without soldered finger guard, but this one is among the 0.1% of that type worth having.
 
lawp,


Thanks, I appreciate that. Sadly though, I probably won't sell a whole lot of anything because I work so damned slowly. It's very frustrating.
 
I said you could sell a lot of THESE. Don't you think if you made the same knife over and over you would get quicker and quicker? Batches of blades, batches of scales, batch heat treat, etc. Go for it. Improving processes and efficiency is exciting, maybe you won't get bored.
 
That is great work, beautiful knife, the stitching on that sheath is laser perfect.
 
Marc I would be interested in hearing how you use that contour contraption if you feel inclined to explain. I get the basic concept but not sure how I would go about measuring the exact spot on each side repeatedly.

For 8 bucks I'm going to pick it up next trip to home depot.

-Clint
 
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