Competition Cutting Knife

scottishsmith24

scottishsmith24

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Here is a project I've been working on for the past few days I wanted to try my hand at making a cutting competition style knife and this was the result. I used 1084 and clay coated it for the hamon and the handle is a laminate of water buffalo horn, bocote, black ash burl, and dyed curly maple. I am going to be making a wooded South East Asian style of sheath for it and will post photos later when that is done. All comments are welcome and thanks for looking.

Robert

OAL: 14 1/2 inches

Blade Length: 10 inches

Blade width: 1 3/4 inch

Handle length: 4 1/2 inches

 
Thanks Cajun, I agree in the photo the handle does appear a bit busy but when seen in person the woods are much more complementary.
 
Yea, I def know how that goes. I'm certain if that choppa ever hit my hand I wouldn't want to let it go ;-) Very nice build, and the photography. I'm a fan
 
Thanks Cajun, here's a better photo of the handle. It's so tricky getting a good photo of the handle and the hamon at the same time but here is one of the handle, it shows it a bit closer to reality.

 
I got some time yesterday to put together a brief video of the cutting performance, I'd say it did reasonably well and would have done better if its user was more skilled and the set up better. I know I didn't set up the board properly for chopping but it was the best I could toss together for the video. But here's the video.

[video=youtube;Ac8bITwVhBY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac8bITwVhBY[/video]
 
So I had a visitor to my shop yesterday who let me try out their nice camera and I was able to get a couple of neat photos of the chopper and a couple of other knives. Hope you guys enjoy. Now there is no going back for me on getting a nice camera... :)







 
Wow man, amazing work! I really like the 4th one depicted. I can't tell if that is the grain in the blade or voids. Never seen that before.

The first photo really does much better for the handle. I see what you mean.
 
Thanks Cajun, the drop point with the grain showing is actually wrought that was exposed to HCL acid for six hours I wanted it to look like it had been in a bog for 1,000 years.
 
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