DEADLINE MET! barely... New knives

[Frank Fischer]

Talk about deadlines... These guys had to be at fedex by 7:30pm and I got there at 7:29pm, it didn't help that I missed my alarm this morning, lost a thumbstud 3 times, took really crappy pics, locked my keys in my car, and anything else that could've went wrong... did. Enough of my drama and on with what we're here for.

These are my Raptors, with clip point blades. The top one wears my dads damascus, "swirly shit" pattern, 1095/15n20, cooked in Byrdies special soup. The back spacer is a piece of twist pattern damascus also cooked in the soup. They have an amazing array of colors, shades of blue, green, orange, red, rose, gold, brown, just magnificent, imo. This is the first piece of mammoth ivory I have worked with, first time gold plating and first time cooking damascus in the entirely too corrosive Byrdie soup. Orange peeled and heat colored gold ti frames, and ti heat colored tstud. The thumbstud is empty right now because it's recipient will be installing a preset stone in the hole I counter bored for him. The other is an s30v blade, orange peeled ti frames, cf scale, ti bspr and tsuds w/ cf inlay. Tell me what you think? Which one do you like?

Sorry for the really crappy pics, 5 minutes behind the camera is not enough...

 

[severedthumbs]

FFisher, very knice. any relation to TFisher?

 

[Burton Harruff]

Very cool! Nice work very clean and the damascus looks real nice.

 

[Frank Fischer]

FFisher, very knice. any relation to TFisher?

Indeed, that's my dad. Are you familiar with his work?

 

[severedthumbs]

Indeed, that's my dad. Are you familiar with his work?

indeed, I thought I saw some influence there. I first became familiar with him when blackwood began using his damascus. are you making your own damascus yet?

 

[Frank Fischer]

Yes sir. This was an emergency, or it would have been my own. Neil's stuff is beyond top notch, I hope to have the same honor some day.

 

[Lorien]

The top one wears my dads damascus, "swirly shit" pattern, 1095/15n20, cooked in Byrdies special soup.

apart from wondering what in the hell Byrdies special soup is, I'm really liking the name for that welded steel

I like the look of these knives, although they're really not the type of knife I'm into. Damn good looking, though:thumbup:

 

[Frank Fischer]

apart from wondering what in the hell Byrdies special soup is, I'm really liking the name for that welded steel

I like the look of these knives, although they're really not the type of knife I'm into. Damn good looking, though:thumbup:

Thanks.

 

[T.K.C.]

Great looking knives.

 

[T.K.C.]

Great looking knives.

 

[peterinct]

VERY nice. I especially like the damascus one.

Peter

 

[Dawkind]

Nice pair, Frank.....very nice.

 

[Frank Fischer]

Thanks for the kind words, very inspiring. I will definitely be cooking more damascus in Bertie's soup.