K2 - second Karesansui

[ilknives]

More of the ladder pattern weld steel I made with 1080 and 15N20. Scales are Giraffe bone inlaid into layered Ebony with carbon fibre, Titanium liners and spacer, detent folder.
OAL 145mm 5,7 inches
Folded 85mm 3,35 inches
Cutting edge 57mm 2,24 inches
36g 1,3 ounces
HRC 63
BESS sharpness 100-160g
Thanks, Ig

 

[brownshoe]

Very nice. What's the story behind your logo?

Is the bone stabilized?

Is your detent system like Terzuola's?

Thx.

 

[ilknives]

Very nice. What's the story behind your logo?

They are overlapping cursive initials I and L

Is the bone stabilized?

No, but treated and stored indoors for 3 yrs, v thin section that is glued with flexible epoxy onto 0,5mm Ebony and carbon fibre composite. Calculated chance...

Is your detent system like Terzuola's?

I honestly don’t know, I just started making the folders this way. I was making liner locks before and the detent was not difficult to spot/adapt as a UK street legal mechanism. The nice thing about it is I can control the force through thickness and width of the spring quite closely, even after the spring has been cut. I will upload a picture and would be grateful if you can give me feedback re similarities. Rightly or wrongly I do not follow other makers/designers, I do of course watch a lot of Youtube to learn how to forge weld etc. and I sometimes ask experts of course when I realise I am struggling with a step. Having said that I don’t like to ever feel as if I am ‘making someone else’s knife’, my hobby for now! It is fun discovering stuff/problem solving.

Thx.