Knife I finished just before Christmas

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silver_pilate

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This one fought me every step of the way. During the first heat treatment, the tip warped. After that, my heat treating oven burned out a coil. Once that was fixed, I stress relieved and corrected the tip, normalized, and during the second heat treatment, the oven broke again. Luckily the blade had been soaking for 40 minutes or so at temp, so as soon as I saw the temp dropping, I pulled it out and quenched it. Then I muffed the ricasso during finishing and had to work to correct that. But it finally came together and turned out pretty well, I think.

This is CPM154 5/32" thickness. Quench was with aluminum plates. Black linen micarta handles and vulcanized spacers. It was delivered with a custom kydex sheath with a steel spring clip for waist band or belt carry. The customer's husband, for whom this was her Christmas gift, is a Canuck, and she wanted some hints of that in the knife. For that reason, I layered the spacers red/white/red, and was able to etch the maple leaf above his last name on the right side of the blade. Sorry for the crummy pics, I took this on Christmas Eve morning right before I had to deliver it to her. My maker's mark looks light in the picture, but it's just the angle.

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Thanks for looking! As always, any comments or suggestions are welcome!

--nathan
 
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I like it. Its clean and slim and made from good steel and handle materials. I think the only improvement could be handle bolts. I always worry about the scales coming loose after hard use.
 
Lovely knife.... probably didn't want to go to Canada at this time of the year :p Tell them to order knives in the warmer months and maybe they'll cooperate better for ya :D
 
Very Nice, Nathan!! Where did you get the really thin white liner material? Looks great!

Oh BTW, Thanks a billion for doing the HT on my knife. It was great meeting you and I had a great time shooting the bull and talking shop. I really appreciate it!!:)
 
Thanks everyone!

Ed, the spacer material I picked up from Pop's knife supplies. I think it classed the handle up a bit. I'm planning on using this white spacer material on the wharncliff blade with the jade G10 handles you saw out at the shop. Glad I could help you out the other day, and it was great to meet you. Let me know if you need any other help! Oh, and I think that knife you're working on (his first one, BTW) is going to turn out great. Can't wait for everyone here to see it.

Bruce, thanks for the compliment! I've never used handle bolts, probably just because of lack of familiarity with the different types. What type of bolts would you recommend on a knife like this?

Thanks again everyone!

--nathan
 
I like the small corby bolts. They are only 1/4" and you will need the counterbore to make them work.
 
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