Hanson, Andrews Collaboration

RogerP said:
Just a beautiful piece in every respect. I'm with Coop on the walnut - just as good as it gets. Hats off to two great makers and congrats to Joe!

Roger
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Roger summed it up well.

Great knife in all respects.....perhaps a sheath by Sheathmaker is what is needed to really put it over the top?:D

Peter
 
jdm61 said:
VERY nice!!:thumbup: The funny part is that it looks to me like each of you was kinda trying to riff off of the other guy for this project. The knife kind of has an kinda Hanson blade and an kinda Andrews guard and handle.:D
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Joe, I gotta say, the blade is all Russ and I was a little concerned trying to make my style flow with his blade. And I'm not that good with wood. I also got tired of flat guards awhile back and started sculpting them.

Kind of a hybrid bowie/fighter guard and didn't realize Russ was already doing similar at the time :o
 
Big Congrats, Joe !
Beautiful knife , lovely walnut .
Great collaboration , Don and Russ . :cool:
Outstanding image, Coop . :thumbup:

Doug
 
I said it privately..now I will go on Record...DAMN YOU JOE!!!

Beautiful Collab Enjoy her you deserve such a fine piece
Nice One Men!!
 
Thanks for all the great comments.
The piece will be making a breif trip
to Sugar Creek for a sheath..I'll give
it my best.

Don, Joe.......Thanks
 
peterinct said:
Roger summed it up well.

Great knife in all respects.....perhaps a sheath by Sheathmaker is what is needed to really put it over the top?:D

Peter
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We all know Paul would dress this one up nicely, but no interstate commerce on this Missouri collaboration, only intrastate. I think Paul will understand. I am still working a third job just to pay him off for my '08 sheaths as we speak. ;) :D

As Russ stated, I will be sending it his way for a nice sheath. He plans on using ostrich inlay for this one. I am not sure the ostrich was raised in Missouri, but I sure hope the cow was. ;)

Appreciate all the nice comments. Russ and Don made this one special.


- Joe
 
Don Hanson III said:
Joe, I gotta say, the blade is all Russ and I was a little concerned trying to make my style flow with his blade. And I'm not that good with wood. I also got tired of flat guards awhile back and started sculpting them.

Kind of a hybrid bowie/fighter guard and didn't realize Russ was already doing similar at the time :o
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Russ is the first guy saw doing a fighter guard that thin and in combination with the ferrule. If you are really uncomfortable using wood, send any and all pieces of walnut that you have that look like that one to me. I just bought a "London Best" gunmaker's stock finishing kit for Brownells. We wouldn't want to have you feeling al anxious and nervous, now would we?:D
 
jdm61 said:
Russ is the first guy saw doing a fighter guard that thin and in combination with the ferrule. If you are really uncomfortable using wood, send any and all pieces of walnut that you have that look like that one to me. I just bought a "London Best" gunmaker's stock finishing kit for Brownells. We wouldn't want to have you feeling al anxious and nervous, now would we?:D
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Joe, how many premo blocks of black walnut do you want?
I am going to start a new business soon :eek:
 
This outstanding knife illustrates what I stated in another thread recently--that walnut (both black and English walnut) is a high quality handle material that merits more attention. A preeminent maker took issue with my point, asserting it was too soft and subject to drying out. I composed a rather lengthy rebuttal that somehow got erased in posting.

Wood quality (color, density, contrast, figure) varies tremendously for various reasons (climate, moisture, nutrients etc.). I can push my thumbnail into the best quality wood about as far as I can into hardened D2 steel.

It's true walnut does not have the resinous oil that some of the tropical-subtropical woods have (e.g. desert ironwood, snakewood), which adds to its durability. But if the knife is to receive hard use hand rubbing in a new coat of oil will do after each hard (wet) use. Or the wood can be plasticize via stabilization, if one has no interest in messing with the finish.

Though I have no first hand knowledge, conventional wisdom has stabilization darkening black walnut robbing its beauty. I suspect this rule does NOT apply to the very best black walnut, which leads me to ask Don if this walnut was stabilized?

Didn't mean to co-opt this thread, Russ and Don, just get fired up when I see great walnut.

ken
 
Ken, American Black Walnut is my favorite wood, be it on a knife or gun stock :)

This piece of Black Walnut is from south central Missouri. It isn't stabilized but is finished with tung oil. I have had some stabilized and it works pretty good but does usually darken and change the look a bit.

Also, the Black Walnut burl seems to be harder that all the other walnuts, key word being, 'burl'.

Thanks for the good words!
 
This kit I bought from Brownells comes from South Africa. If you go by the time that they require to properly do a high end shotgun stock, the process take a couple of weeks and requires numerous coats of several different products. With that said, I have seen a number of VERY old English shotguns that have lost most of the case color, but the wood still looks great. I plan to try this stuff out when i finally get around to making a polished maple or walnut sheath for one of my little Moran homage knifes. I figure that a piece that large probably deserves a little more care as far as the finish goes. Don......let me know when you are your brother are going to go tree poachig again. If you have some pieces like tha one, I will definately buy them. also, if you can come up with any decent sized short boards with good figure that could be used for sheath making, that would be excellent.
 
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