daizee
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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Hi 'smiths et al,
Below are some pix of my latest, just completed this evening.
It's something of a milestone as it is the first complete 3" knife to my original spec, 90% of the work my own (my friend thinned my bevels just a touch, for which I am grateful). This IS my hunting knife, the end product a year of cogitation and 6 months of grinding under patient tutelage. Each knife is built upon the last, and this one meets 100% of my original spec. It was sitting around waiting for handles etc. while I finshed 3 others in which I didn't have as much emotional investment. Fortunately those intervening three taught me a great deal more about shaping and fitting handles, and that was the final missing element. The kydex gave me fits tonight - too hot and and cut too small. Putting that piece aside and starting over solved the problem.
Reaching this milestone is a siginificant event (family pix at the end), but this is definitely not the end, there are 3 or 4 more in some rough state, and lots more steel stock on hand.
As always, thanks for looking and your constructive feedback.
Steel: 1/8" O1
Blade Length: 2.95", tip to handles (3" max legal in my state)
OAL: 7.125" (juuust enough handle, not too much)
Scales: OD green micarta with 3/16" brass pins & lanyard hole
Sheath: kydex with mini tek-lock & drain hole
In approximate order of completion from right to left (duh):
RIP the three that didn't survive heat-treat (two big 'uns and a rigging knife). :-/
-Daizee
Below are some pix of my latest, just completed this evening.
It's something of a milestone as it is the first complete 3" knife to my original spec, 90% of the work my own (my friend thinned my bevels just a touch, for which I am grateful). This IS my hunting knife, the end product a year of cogitation and 6 months of grinding under patient tutelage. Each knife is built upon the last, and this one meets 100% of my original spec. It was sitting around waiting for handles etc. while I finshed 3 others in which I didn't have as much emotional investment. Fortunately those intervening three taught me a great deal more about shaping and fitting handles, and that was the final missing element. The kydex gave me fits tonight - too hot and and cut too small. Putting that piece aside and starting over solved the problem.
Reaching this milestone is a siginificant event (family pix at the end), but this is definitely not the end, there are 3 or 4 more in some rough state, and lots more steel stock on hand.
As always, thanks for looking and your constructive feedback.
Steel: 1/8" O1
Blade Length: 2.95", tip to handles (3" max legal in my state)
OAL: 7.125" (juuust enough handle, not too much)
Scales: OD green micarta with 3/16" brass pins & lanyard hole
Sheath: kydex with mini tek-lock & drain hole
In approximate order of completion from right to left (duh):
RIP the three that didn't survive heat-treat (two big 'uns and a rigging knife). :-/
-Daizee
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