Little Ironwood Fighter

RMLamey

RMLamey

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Just finished this small Desert Ironwood Fighter for a customer. He sent me some real nice Ironwood to work with, was a bit too small for a Bowie so we decided to make a "small" Fighter. Blade is 7", overall length is 12", steel is 1095, guard and pins are SS. Dont know why but the guard fit LOOKS horrible in the photo, not so in person. Also didnt have good light for the hamon, theres actually a very bold and active line... just cant see it in these pics!


Any how, here are a couple pics, nothing special just some good ingredients and a bit of love;)

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RMLamey said:
Just finished this small Desert Ironwood Fighter for a customer. He sent me some real nice Ironwood to work with, was a bit too small for a Bowie so we decided to make a "small" Fighter. Blade is 7", overall length is 12", steel is 1095, guard and pins are SS. Dont know why but the guard fit LOOKS horrible in the photo, not so in person. Also didnt have good light for the hamon, theres actually a very bold and active line... just cant see it in these pics!


Any how, here are a couple pics, nothing special just some good ingredients and a bit of love;)
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Yeah, and the sun was in my eyes and there wasn't any chalk and ... if it looks that good in lousy photos it must be one hellacious blade!! That is one sleek slab of steel!
 
The fit looks fine in the second photo. In the firsrt I think it`s just a matter of not eough light from the butt end, makes a slight shadow where the guard meets the wood.

But the knife looks OUTSTANDING. Great work!
 
Matt as usual simple bad ass. By the way I like the photo on your homepage looks good.
 
Matt, that's the most refined knife I've seen of yours yet. Still savage, but a clean and well thought out design. Almost sophisticated:eek:! This knife is a benchmark for you, I think. At least from what I've seen. Keep it up man!

Is it any different for you when the customer supplies the material, when you build a knife?
 
Lorien said:
Is it any different for you when the customer supplies the material, when you build a knife?
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Normally I dont like working with customer supplied wood. In this case it worked out good. Thanks for all the kind words, will be posting more photos as im back at it in the shop again after a break.
 
I just soiled myself.:eek:

One of, it not THE, best looking fighters that I have seen this year, Matt...well done!

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Even your "small" knives are pretty big - I like that. This is a really sweet piece - very nice lines. Well done.

Roger
 
for a knife to get Steven gushing, there must be something WOW going on.
Like I said, this one is on another level brother.
 
woke up feeling like a mule kicked me in the head..... and then remembered why I dont like Ironwood. Even wearing a respirator its nasty stuff!
 
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