Little Rock - Let's see what you're bringing!

Looking forward to the trip south, this will be the biggest knife show that I've been able to attend.
 
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Now I can focus on Little Rock for a few weeks after I get the maple one in the bottom photo out.

Regardless - I turned this:





Into this:



And I'm going to have a mix of materials I've never used on a hunter since the last century!! :)
 
I was able to get a little basic grinding done on this today and get it ready for heat treating in the morning.
You can see the San Mai layer even now.
The second picture is right off the grinder and coated with anti-scale for the oven.




 
I made a little progress on this yesterday. Got it hardened and double tempered.
I have one more customer knife to get out before Little Rock that needs some hot-bluing, which I do in the open forge area, but it was -30 yesterday morning.
I put it off until today.
So, this is the San Mai hunter right after a post-heat treating clean-up:



Some materials used for guard work:



And this is rough fit-up right off the mill. I did a quick radius of the guard slot top and bottom to match the milled radius of the guard shoulders and tapped it into place:





Now I'm just hoping some handle material gets here in the mail today!

If not, I've got this to work on:
(That'll warm the shop up!)

 
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Looking good Karl!
What are you using for Anti Scale?
 
Well you have seen this one but you can play with it at the show mosaic black wood key holelr1.jpglr2.jpg
 
One of three hunters I'll have for Little Rock.
This one is 1095/420 SS San Mai.
The handle is a crazy wild Silky Oak from Hawaii. Mark Farley, from Burl Source, has really been supplying us knife makers with some extraordinary materials lately.
The guard is 1903 twisted wrought iron from a bridge that collapsed into the river about 10 years ago near my old home town in Illinois.

This will not be available until the show.












Some folks may not like the appearance of a take-down finial so I covered this one with a "trap-door" finial.
This one was made from a piece of the Silky Oak. I've used ivory in the past, as well, and it leaves a really clean look.

 
A very poor photo of a Fighter.
1095/420 SS San Mai, an extraordinary block of Curly Koa and a contoured hi-lo and hot-blued steel guard.
Gonna be sweet! :thumbup:

Available at Little Rock.

 
good looking knife, Karl. I assume there's some kind of "regular" nut underneath the "trap door?" Or, just thinking out loud, you could drill and tap a hole in the tang and hold the entire thing together with your torx screw.

Funny thing about the Little Rock show... I have a conference for work that weekend at the Drury in San Antonio. I couldn't go to the ABS show at the Drury, but I'll go to the Drury when the show is in Little Rock. Day late, dollar short :)
 
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This knife is not finished but it is in the works and I hope to be done before the show. I should if all goes well.

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The blade is 12 inches long and laddered W pattern. Lots of shimmer.

I'm forging the fittings so you might want to see the beginning. 1 1/4 round 416 stainless X 2 inches will be the bottom lug of the D Guard.
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Forged and ground and normalizing.
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The guard after forging and some grinding now being normalized.
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Guard is finished now.
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The pocket to receive the bottom lug.
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Now several of the parts (spacer assembly is not in the pic), some of which are still rough. I should get it all together next week.
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Karl--I really like the wrought guard on that one. Also appealing is the notion that a failure of safety infrastructure should be reborn again to provide protection.

Seth
 
Jason, my traditional rock solid stainless 10-32 finial is underneath this. This is just a cover that offers no stability to the knife.
It's just "lipstick".

Jason Fry said:
good looking knife, Karl. I assume there's some kind of "regular" nut underneath the "trap door?" Or, just thinking out loud, you could drill and tap a hole in the tang and hold the entire thing together with your torx screw.
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