Harpoon Point Camp Chopper

[scottishsmith24]

Yesterday I received a pleasant surprise in my email, a new photograph from Caleb Royer of a knife I finished about a month of so ago and I thought I would share it. This was a fun project for a client over seas where he gave me pretty much full artistic freedom which is a wonderful opportunity. The blade was forged using a go mai type of construction with 400 layer 1095/15n20 for the outside layers, pure nickel, and a core of W2. The handle is carbon fiber and black ash burl with mosaic/ stainless steel pins. Overall the knife ended up being just shy of fifteen inches long so definitely not on the small side, but it was a joy to make and any comments or criticisms are always welcome. Thanks for looking.

-Robert

 

[The Zieg]

Great Ilmarinen of yore! That knife is beautiful!

Zieg

 

[Lorien]

that's my kind of knife!
very interesting combination of textures, line and colour. A real successful piece that you ought to be proud of

 

[giedymin]

One of the most beautiful knives i've seen lately.

 

[i4Marc]

I'm diggin' that. Very nice details.

 

[M.K.]

Good knife and a good picture.

 

[RogerP]

Very interesting execution of the layering of the blade steels. Overall that's one heck of an impressive-looking chopper. Well done!

 

[samclaymore]

Beautiful & I beat Doug C to it lol.

 

[scottishsmith24]

Thanks for all of the kind compliments everyone, this was a really fun piece to work on and my first time using pure nickel in a weld. I was really glad I stopped by to visit Karl Anderson before finishing this knife as he was the one the provided the black ash burl for the handle.

 

[Kevin Jones]

Another fine knife, sheath and photo.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[knarfeng]

Post moved
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[scottishsmith24]

Thanks Kevin!

 

[jelio]

Wow. This is incredible.

 

[scottishsmith24]

Thanks Jelio!