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Chuck Gedraitis Knives

Chuck Gedraitis Knives

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Just finished this knife up yesterday. It has a 3 3/16 George Werth parquet mosaic twist with spacers damascus blade. Bolsters are my own random damascus and mammoth ivory scales. Liners are 3/32 titanium, Anodized blue and fileworked. This is a framelock! Bronze washers, tight lockup and the tab at the end is for a bail that I am making. The blade hides completely inside of the handle. Back spacers are Rados ladder pattern damascus. Overall length is 8 1/2in. The blade is polished but the damascus is still striking in person.
Thanks for looking,
Chuck

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Very nice, I really like the way you did kind of a double recurve to that blade. A question though, why did you polish that mammoth ivory and get rid of all the bark? Personally, I think that the bark is what gives mammoth and mastadon ivory the fantastic look that it has. When you polish it that much it almost looks like regular ivory, just darker. I think it looks fantastic, but in my opinion would look better with barky ivory scales.
 
Keith,
The mammoth Ivory I used was second cut, the instde layers = no color. I think that it looks classy witht he cream colored ivory. It is a terrible waste to spend $100 + on a nice set of colored scale sna dthen grind off the color!:mad: I have a new knife almost finished and you will love the mammoth on it. The colors are blue, green and brown. It is sweet, and from a piece I bought of febay and cut myself.
Thanks for your kind words, how do you always seem to post first?
Thanks,
Chuck
 
Make sure we get a look at that knife with the great mammoth ivory scales. It is probably my favorite handle material although I am really starting to like some of the woods.

I guess I post first because I love seeing pictures of knives so I tend to spend a lot of time on this forum. There is no other place you can see so many fantastic looking knives.
 
That's a beauty Chuck.., thanks for the picture.., and yeah that double re-curve is a very sexy touch!


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