Caswell EDC in TEXTURED IRONWOOD

JCaswell

JCaswell

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Here's a new pair of EDCs with In-Line Retractable Pocket Clip.
Black G-10 bolsters and TEXTURED DESERT IRONWOOD BURL scales!
 

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Nice Joe! I love the texturing you use a lot. Never seen ironwood used like that but super idea.

STR
 
Now that is COOL! Never actually considered textured wood. Dang you're the man!
 
I have to be honest. It's very nice, but ironwood is such a beautiful wood that I hate seeing the subtleties of it's beauty blurred by the texturing. It's just my opinion though, and others will probably disagree with me.
 
That textured wood is a neat idea. It's kind of like gunstock handle, checked wood, kicked up a notch or two.

Can you share with us how you do it or is that a trade secret?
 
scottickes said:
I have to be honest. It's very nice, but ironwood is such a beautiful wood that I hate seeing the subtleties of it's beauty blurred by the texturing. It's just my opinion though, and others will probably disagree with me.
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I agree with you . IMHO , I like iron wood smooth and shiny .
 
I did one a few years ago out of lignum vitae wood and paid a someone (Sherry Abraham) to do her wood checkering on it. Spark owns that knife now. Much as I loved what Sherry did after seeing it on a gun stock before commissioning her to do it on one of my folders there is something unique and appealing about Joe's texturing. Its a great way to do the texturing and a pattern and feel you don't see on anything else. I guess you'd just have to play with one to know. I can tell you this, I'd sure love to have drawers full of his textured micarta and G10 in my shop to use on my knives I can tell you that.

STR
 
scottickes said:
I have to be honest. It's very nice, but ironwood is such a beautiful wood that I hate seeing the subtleties of it's beauty blurred by the texturing. It's just my opinion though, and others will probably disagree with me.
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I also agree with this opinion. My preference would be to have the bolsters textured, but not the ironwood scales.

Anyway, it is a very nice knife-great work. I hope for one day having it available in a left-handed version at the same time that I might have some disposable income!
 
woodgood said:
Can you share with us how you do it or is that a trade secret?
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This is a texture geometry we generated that we machine on. It's very grippy, but not so aggressive as to tear up you or your clothing. I use a courser version on the CK-1 fixed blade.

You can't see from the pix, but transition from wood to G-10 is seamless, meaning the texture flows from one material to the other as if it was done on a single piece.

Texturing (as with checkering but probably less so) does tend to hide subtleties of the wood, which is why you have to use better ironwood for it. If you can find stuff that is bold and really high in contrast, you can have figure and grippy. Yes, the figure might have been even more dynamic if it was smooth, but then it's slippery. Depends on your priorities, I guess. :)

Here is a close-up of the texture on the CK-1. It's a shot of the blade, but you can see the texture pretty well:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=101947&d=1215069727
 
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