Just finished - hunter/skinner with unusual (?) handle material.

Looks solid. Is the top sharpened as well? If not most advice would be to avoid bringinb the bevel all the way to the spine of the knife near the ricasso.

You've done several knives now so it's time to dig into fit and finish. (I'm new as well). The front of your scales should probably be finished more before you attach them to your tang. It might be the pic but the curve of the scale fronts do not appear to be symmetrical edge to spine. Those inside curves are tough to get and you can see that on the front finger groove. Take your time with some files and then flat and round stock wrapped in sandpaper. It looks like you partially sanded off your makers mark when you were flattening your tang for good scale to tang fit (I would guess).

It looks like a serviceable knife that can readily handle what you throw at it. Nice job but push for the next level. We put so much work into these knives is hard to hear sometimes but these guys on this forum will really help us if we are humble and take advice.
 
Maelstrom78 said:
Looks solid. Is the top sharpened as well? If not most advice would be to avoid bringinb the bevel all the way to the spine of the knife near the ricasso.

You've done several knives now so it's time to dig into fit and finish. (I'm new as well). The front of your scales should probably be finished more before you attach them to your tang. It might be the pic but the curve of the scale fronts do not appear to be symmetrical edge to spine. Those inside curves are tough to get and you can see that on the front finger groove. Take your time with some files and then flat and round stock wrapped in sandpaper. It looks like you partially sanded off your makers mark when you were flattening your tang for good scale to tang fit (I would guess).

It looks like a serviceable knife that can readily handle what you throw at it. Nice job but push for the next level. We put so much work into these knives is hard to hear sometimes but these guys on this forum will really help us if we are humble and take advice.
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Thanks Maelstrom - good comments. I try to finish each knife, self critique it, and then whatever mistakes I find, not make them on the next one. Even now, I am finishing another one, same model, but with walnut scales. Will try to do better on the final sanding of the inside curves on the scales.
 
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