Desert-Warrior

wieland · Jan 17, 2013

hi all,

this fighter was built on order,
it´s one of my elder designs, but with a lanyard-hole and a longer blade.

W1 forged
bronze-guard
desert ironwood
total 27,5cm (11 inch), blade only 15,5cm (6 inch)
thickness 4,5-1,5mm

thanks for looking!
gerhard

Burl Source · Jan 17, 2013

Beautiful Knife!
The patterns in the ironwood and the hamon compliment each other nicely.

peterinct · Jan 17, 2013

ALL of your knives have a GREAT flow to the design and look lethal!

Pleasure seeing another Gerhard!

Peter

wdtorque · Jan 17, 2013

Beautiful knife.
Love your work.
Dozier

Kevin Jones · Jan 17, 2013

Seems you hit a home run every time at bat, beautiful!

wieland · Jan 18, 2013

@ burl source, peter, dozier & kevin,

thank you for posting and your kind words, I´m glad you like my knife!

best regards
gerhard

Bill Hoffman · Jan 18, 2013

I'm constantly amazed by your ability to fit compound
curves together so well. All of your knives display this
skill and you make it look so "easy".

How do you get such a close fit on curved surfaces?

Bill

remy b · Jan 18, 2013

Beautiful as usual.

JParanee · Jan 18, 2013

Great blade shape and a wonderful piece of wood

tobii3 · Jan 18, 2013

I keep coming back to look that knife.

Fantastic work, Gerhard! That really is a work of art.

Idlewild · Jan 18, 2013

Gorgeous all round...especially like the textured/sculpted guard...GG!!

felizalde55 · Jan 18, 2013

It's a beautiful fighter, congratulations, Gerhard.

wieland · Jan 18, 2013

thank you all for posting!

@bill hoffman,
some years ago I made this little tutorial for a tight fit at bent surfaces in don fogg´s `Bladesmith-forum´:

http://forums.dfoggknives.com/index.php?showtopic=12783

hope this explanes my way.

gerhard

Bill Hoffman · Jan 18, 2013

Thank you very much. Wow, what a lot of work.
Bill

Shawn Hatcher · Jan 19, 2013

Beautiful work! The hamon and ironwood are especially eye-catching.

erik markman · Jan 20, 2013

Great work (again), Gerhard!

zachtateknives · Jan 20, 2013

That's a sweet fighter

Wing-Man · Jan 20, 2013

I can't wait until I can afford to get on some of these waiting lists :thumbup:

ArtinNC · Jan 20, 2013

Like.

keithf · Jan 20, 2013

Loving your work Gerhard. Stunning!
Cheers Keith