Liam's Hunter Series 5.0

P. McKinley

P. McKinley

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I've been feeling rather......ummmm, blue lately for a variety of reasons.
This batch represents the last knives I'll be making for quite a while as I just had multi-level spinal fusion surgery a few days ago. My wife is posting this for me.

I recently finished this set of four hunters destined for display/sale at Escape Outdoors in North Sydney, N.S. http://www.escapeoutdoors.ca/

I'd love to get your comments.

-Peter

Here's a few details:

Blade(s): 5" of Aldo's 1095, flat ground and hand sanded to 800 grit. The blades have been etched and polished to highlight the hamon.
Handle(s): Tiger-striped Red Maple, Bird's Eye Red Maple, Quilted Red Maple, and Indian Rosewood - all with Bubinga liners, two peened 3/16" brass pins, hidden lanyard holes, and a buffed Tung oil finish(except the Rosewood which has a natural polished finish). The Moose hide lanyards have hand-turned beads from the same handle woods.
Sheaths: 6-7 oz veg tanned leather(RJF), hand stitched with polished natural edges and a buffed mink oil finish.

... and a few photos. (these are not the greatest shots as I don't have the patients to do a full-on beauty treatment)



















 
Sorry to hear you are having to go through that recovery, best of luck to you.

As for the knives, they are absolutely outstanding. Right down my alley brother. I wish I was closer to the shop there to get in and handle one... Really like the lanyard hole treatment and very nice job on the sheaths. Excellent job!
 
Those are really nice knives. The dark one and the one with the thicker liner are my favorites. I love what you did with the lanyard hole! Excellent work.

Hope you recover quickly.
 
Very Nice !! I like the lanyard idea. I don't think I have seen that before. They look very crisp and clean. Sheaths look great as well. I know you will get great feedback and will sell them for a tidy sum.

I hope your spine heals up good as new and I also hope you are not in to much pain. I have battled some issue's with a disk in my neck and I know somewhat how the pain can bring you down in the dumps. Brighter days are coming my friend. Stay the coarse.
 
Beautiful knives! I love the lanyard holes.

I'm there with you on the back, I just had a single level fusion redone. They removed everything and reimplanted two rods instead of one in one surgery. Then 4 weeks later they went in from the front and redid the fusion part. I still have pain, but there are more non-pain/good times than there ever used to be. Hoping you can get back to it soon, just go slow with it though, you don't want to undo anything.
 
Thanks folks.

Broomhead - For me it was ACDF(Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion) of C-6/7/8 with cadaver bone grafts and a funky blue titanium plate. The surgeon also removed a bone spur that was pressing against my trachea. I'm now two days into recovery and it hurts like a bastard.

Thanks for the support.

Now its back to sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 
Bigblue17 said:
Thanks folks.

Broomhead - For me it was ACDF(Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion) of C-6/7/8 with cadaver bone grafts and a funky blue titanium plate. The surgeon also removed a bone spur that was pressing against my trachea. I'm now two days into recovery and it hurts like a bastard.

Thanks for the support.

Now its back to sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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S1-L5 for me. I fell at work and fractured L5.
 
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