Finally finished one from my new shop (Wharncliffe)

[Robert_Phelps]

First, I'd like to thank whoever passed on the hint for using a razor to get sandpaper on the ricasso to fix post-handling scratches, that saved this one.

This is a wharncliffe knife for a buddy of mine ($75, which is like materials and nothing else)

Steel: CM157
Polish: 400 gr
Overall length 9"(or so)
Handle is spalted maple, sanded to somewhere between 600 and 1200 (I didn't stay very long in 1200, it's a user knife)

The first pic makes it look like there's a diagonal line running near just past the ricasso, but it's just some light. These pictures stink, but I have a photographer friend who I'll try to get to take some more.

Sheath will be kydex (and a learning experience)

Had to make it twice, but that means I have a uglier if not useful version in micarta for myself. This is my second knife off a grinder.

 

[Robert_Phelps]

First kydex sheath. Glad to have this one done. Anything that could be improved upon?
Is there anything more I should do to the back side of the rivets? Where the other rivet sticks through some?

 

[smitty0331]

Nice knife. You can't beat a fixid blade Wharncliffe

 

[Robert_Phelps]

Sure can't. Except maybe for poking/stabbing through things.

I'd wanted to make the sheath a fold-over style (So it wouldn't be so dang wide), but whenever I folded it it would mold around the handle, and then it would bulge out at the blade, so the profile of the sheath looked goofy.