Jungle Brother!

Lorien

Lorien

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Love this tune!

Hey thanks for checking in- just wanted to show my latest fixed blade knife.

The blade is 3/16" CPM3V, the handle is Terotuf laminated to vulcanized fiber and held to the tang via stainless steel pins which were epoxied in place and then tapped to accept 12.9 steel bolts. Which were also epoxied in place for a totally bombproof set up.

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Thanks again for looking!
If you want to see a little more, swing by my subforum HERE
 
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thanks guys:thumbsup:

the blade is 6" and the handle is a little over 4.5". I wanted a knife that was relatively compact, but hits above its weight. It's 10.25oz total weight.

Unfortunately, the blade developed a slight warp during heat treatment toward the tip. Fortunately, I'll have to keep and use it since I can't be selling a bent knife. This'll be good, as it will give me the opportunity to test my heat treatment protocol and the knife in general. I like the design and will probably pursue it going forward and a standard model.
 
I have two other fixed blades on the bench, just about finished, and when they're done it's leather time for all three.
I try and stage my work since everything happens in a 120 square foot space and shit can get out of hand pretty quick.
 
I really like how you beveled the hand guard....a spot where transitions get difficult.
Great jungle companion!
....great tune linked!🤩
 
Lorien said:
I have two other fixed blades on the bench, just about finished, and when they're done it's leather time for all three.
I try and stage my work since everything happens in a 120 square foot space and shit can get out of hand pretty quick.
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Looking forward to it....
 
Thank you, Scott- much appreciated!

This knife has kind of a different look to it than most of what I've been designing for the past while.
I wanted to have it be as curvy as possible- and compact- without it looking like a cartoon. Just pushing the boundary of caricature of a knife as far as I'm comfortable with.
Trying to make things that I'm not usually down with, work. Like a finger choil. Generally not a fan, but they make sense for some things, and maybe I haven't used one that was designed well.
So I guess you can say that this knife was a challenge to biases I had, and I think it's helping in the shades of grey department in the part of my brain that designs this shit.
A knife still has to do its thing.
I didn't realize until now, that it's in hand, is that it's pretty clearly a 'combat' knife. I've stabbed it into stuff and yowza- it's wicked! Super fast and easy to index moving from grip to grip.
Musstt.....doooo......llllllleatherrrrrrr...
 
ok, so I got a bunch of sheaths finished up and whipped up a quick one for my Jungle Brother. The leather itself isn't from the best part of the hide- I reserve the choice parts for things that aren't for me, lol- but I did spend an inordinate amount of time experimenting with dye. Trying to get a cool camo look, but not totally satisfied with the result yet. Still, better than my last attempt, so there's a strong possibility of improvement with this kind of thing down the road.

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harvested my first mushroom with my Jungle Brother today, and it was a doozy!
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this knife is pretty handy for the job- although many foraging knives have an inward curve, the exaggerated belly on this knife plus the finger choil proved quite useful for getting at the base of this huge cauliflower mushroom
 
we're having a bit of a cold snap around here lately, lots of trees down out there. I haven't really done much 'chopping' with this knife, (it wasn't really designed for that) but today introduced a good opportunity to test the ergonomics of this knife and its heat treatment. You see tests where ice is the media or wood is the media, but in this case I was able to test both at once. Icy wood!

I wasn't able to get all the way through this log, since my dog took off at one point, but I got through enough of it to acquire some useful feedback
 
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