First Dagger I Made

[raylaconico]

I thought I'd post a picture of this dagger I made a few weeks ago. It is the first and only double edged blade I've made. The blade is 1095 and the handle is ebony with brass guard. It was not easy getting both the blade, handle, and guard perfectly symetrical. What do you guys think of it? Thanks for looking.
-Ray

 

[shappa]

I'm impressed.

 

[skinny_dan]

Looks really nice, damn

 

[knifetester]

That looks really nice!!

 

[cleaner145]

Very nice work.

 

[Trout Tamer]

Very nice! I really like the shape you gave the guard, too :thumbup:

 

[Burchtree]

I think you did a fantastic job! :thumbup:

 

[ddavelarsen]

That's great! I think that's one of my favorite double edged knives yet. Way to go!

 

[cactus]

very nice! Now you need to further that into a sub hilt fighter! That'd be my next order!

Scott

 

[raylaconico]

Thanks for the kind words guys. A subhilt would be cool challenge- I never tried that before. I had a hard time making this knife because it had to be perfectly symetrical from tip to butt even the sheath. The ridge had to be right down the middle and perfectly straight too. The customer even wanted it to be balanced at the guard so I had to drill a bunch of holes in the tang to do it. I'm not really into daggers but I thought it turned out pretty nice.

-Ray