Damascus, Juniper Burl and Rawhide

[K A WILLEY]

This is the first one of the year for me,
It is a 4 bar basket weave mosaic of 88 layers of 1084 and 15n20 twisted tightly then cut into thirds for a 3 bar composite all twisted the same way,( has a nice chantoyance to it) the handle is stabilized juniper burl with copper fittings and pin. The sheath is cow rawhide I made myself lined with brain tanned buckskin studded with copper,
next one with a blade like this I'm going to go with a few less layers and not twist so tightlyand alternat the twists to contrast alittle more and maybe shorten the ricasso alittle, what do yo guys think? thanks for looking

 

[John M Cohea]

Very nice work:thumbup:Really dig the sheath

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

I'm diggin' the damascus, as well.
I don't know if I'd change anything there.

 

[Steve Nuckels]

I think I love it!!!! All of it! Sheath is very cool! I really like the "Fine" pattern of the Damascus.

Steve
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[jrscgsr]

beautiful knife. Very nice damascus pattern and amazing burl.

 

[zerogee]

Nice - awesome sheath too! Great package. Shorter ricasso? I'd say yeah. Liking the tightly twisted fine pattern damascus though -- it might not show so well from a distance, but up close and personal it's pretty sweet.

 

[K A WILLEY]

Thank you for the comments and feedback.

 

[hmarziali]

Beautiful work. The sheath is special. I like the rawhide
Congratulations

Horacio

 

[arcadiaknives]

Wow! Great looking knife, beautiful sheath. They really look good together. Love the copper. Where did you get the copper studs for the sheath?

Pat

 

[K A WILLEY]

Pat I made the studs by upsetting copper wire then spinning the head and polishing them like making a rivet ( you could use coppper rivet or spots if you could find them, I just used what I had on hand ) then split it and bent them over.

Thanks Horacio