Crackle Mammoth/ Rosebud Damascus/ Big Bowie -P.Long Sheath Added

John White

John White

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Sent some photos of my Mammoth stash to this client, and he picked a beautiful golden crackle.

He asked for a big, frame-handled Damascus Bowie to show it off.

Here it is; 11 inches of a 4-bar twisted Mosaic I think I'll call "Rosebud." The fittings are of a complimentary black and silver Damascus, and the spacers and frame liners are teeny file-worked stainless.

It's a take-down, and as usual, the Damascus-topped take-down tool holds spare assembly pins, and there's a Damascus stud to go on the sheath that Paul Long will be making. (pics on that later)

Here's a few photos.

I've added the photos of Paul Long's fantastic sheath for this one.

The overlay is a Golden Lizard to accent the Mammoth Crackle, and the tooling carries out the "Rosebud" theme of the blade's Damascus.

Paul's original "papoose" holds the Damascus tipped "Take-down" tool.

Paul done it proud!

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Another inspiring piece of work. Really impressive damascus. I love how the pattern ends just before the tip. Great stuff.
 
Beautiful work, John! You continue to knock them out. Very impressive!

Do you cut a bird's mouth in the tip of the blade after welding the layers or do you have a method of doing it initially?

Gary
 
Thanks guys, for the comments. This damascus pattern, by the way, came out of a confab with Shawn McIntyre last June in my shop. Thanks, Shawn.

Gary, I've had some unfortunate incidents with the bird's-mouth method. I do a double weld, cutting an inside curve, and bending. That way, I can match the pattern exactly, and get a good weld consistently.

Here's an illustrated explanation from an old WIP. http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-Walrus-Damascus-Dogbone-Bowie-for-Jim-Treacy

John
 
Fantastic isn't strong enough!

Simply superlative seems weak!

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Awesome knife man!!! where do you guys get this great ivory? I'm particularly fond of blue mammoth but this is beautiful too.

Red
 
That might be the nicest damascus blade I've ever seen pictures of. Congratulations on finishing that piece.
 
The golden crackle in the mammoth looks like vines growing into the rosebud pattern of the blade.
What an elegant and lovely big Bowie, John !

Doug
 
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