Knife "Oak" (HSSteel and oak root)

[Leonid Evdokimov]

Hi!
Let me show you the latest work.

Blade by Denis Pikov (aka Ito Matsumoto, Russia) forged HS Steel 176/32.5/4.5 mm
Handle is made of oak root with titan and brass furniture, 120 mm
Veg-tan leather sheath with oak insert.

With all respect
Leonid

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[Lorien]

very nice!

 

[FOG2]

Thats a beauty!

 

[Craig Daniel]

Excellent work!

 

[Park Swan]

Whoa! I'm not sure I've ever seen Oak root wood, it looks great.

 

[wdtorque]

Nice work. Beautiful handle, material and design. Dozier

 

[DEllis]

I like that a lot.:thumbup:
Darcy

 

[noseoil]

The oak root looks like a nice walnut burl, it must be very hard wood! The grain & shape really compliments the design. Very nicely done.

 

[Dusty One]

Beautiful work, Metal, Wood and Leather !

 

[watermule]

Really nice, especially the wood, can say I have never seen oak root either but I like it.
Rob

 

[Leonid Evdokimov]

Thank you all! Glad you liked it!
This oak root wood really turned out to be the most difficult wood to cut on my experience. I shape handles only with set of files and It was terribly hard to cut it, as well as to do it with saw. It is not the hardest wood, definetely softer than iron wood, but due to the character of fibres, I think, it is almost impossible to make it crack. So... really good one. May be it is an oak root-burl part... can't check it.

 

[Bob Leedy]

Good work! The handle is very intriguing - and very nicely conceived and executed.

 

[Natlek]

Beautiful knive ! Now , I went to dig some oak root