Loveless Hunter with Snakewood

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Here's a Loveless styled hunter that I am finishing up for a customer. It will ship on Monday. The final finish coat on the sheath is drying, and then I'll pack it up. Not shown is a braided kangaroo lace lanyard and the hand made and tooled leather sheath.

Specs:
Type: Drop Point Utility Hunter
Overall length 8-1/8 inches
Blade length 3-5/8 inches
Blade steel Hand ground CPM S35VN stainless steel, flat grind, 600/800 grit hand rubbed finish, tapered tang
Grind type: Flat, tapered tang
Handle material: Suriname Snakewood
Guard material: Hand shaped 416 stainless steel, pinned & soldered
Guard spacers: Layers of 416 stainless steel with black & red vulcanized fiber
Fasteners: Stainless steel corby rivets, mosaic pin by Lane Reed,stainless steel lanyard tube
Lanyard: Tan kangaroo skin lace, braided
Sheath: Hand made, tooled, dyed, and sealed. Saddle tan stain, Med. brown antiqued, stippled tooling pattern


Please excuse the piece of clay that I used to prop the knife for one of these photos.

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Superb work, Michael. A lovely knife and well made. I hate a guy who makes sheaths as lovely as the one you made!:D:thumbup:
 
Great work on both knife and sheath! Took me a wile to identify the stamp on your tooling. Fantastic, creative use of that stamp. It really makes the sheath match the knife.
 
Horsewright said:
Great work on both knife and sheath! Took me a wile to identify the stamp on your tooling. Fantastic, creative use of that stamp. It really makes the sheath match the knife.
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Now that you mention it, the leather tooling does work very well with the highly prominant snakewood patterns on this knife. Maybe I went this route subconsciously, since I always struggle as to what tooling pattern to use for each knife? By the way, the stamp is a Craft Tool D443 Border tool. I'm quite sure I got the idea from Al Stohlman's books or from the Tandy catalog, so I shouldn't be credited with the original idea.

Thanks for all of the positive comments from everyone.

Mike
 
Awsome work. I gotta step up my details. If ya don't mind how did you finish the wood? Is it stabilized or CA finish?thanks for sharing such quality work. Sheath is impeccable
 
Schulzebilly said:
Awsome work. I gotta step up my details. If ya don't mind how did you finish the wood? Is it stabilized or CA finish?thanks for sharing such quality work. Sheath is impeccable
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Very delayed reply, but ...

Fist, I dry sanded, shaped, and finished the wood to 1500 grit.

Then I applied a clear gloss hand rubbed finish of tung oil and urethane:

I used at least 5 coats of a wet-sanded finish using "Pro Custom Oil" gunstock finish. The finish was first applied and sanded into the grain with 400 grit, and progressed up to 1500 grit. Each application was allowed to dry and cure at least 24 hours, and then is repeated with a finer grit. This was done up to 1500 grit. The final finish was done with dry 1500 grit wet/dry paper to remove all surface coatings and only leave the filled and sealed pores.

No stabilization was done or is needed with snakewood.

Finally, the wood was polished with rouge on a Baldor buffer.

Thanks for the positive comments.
 
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