Loveless style pair

[irbailey]

4" & 3" blades, macassar ebony slabs with fibre liners on a tapered tang.
Comments good or bad greatly appreiciated!!
Cheers, Ian

My mate who kindly took the photos would be grateful for any comments too!
Thanks for looking

 

[T.K.C.]

I have a thing for blade to handle ratios; and those look off balanced to me. I just do not care for brass on knives.

 

[724wd]

though also not a fan of brass, i do like the blades. they look in proportion to me... but everyone's eye is different. very clean work!

 

[Keith Montgomery]

I'm not fan of brass either, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I find these two knives to be darn good looking.

 

[irbailey]

Thank you all for your comments, its very much apprieciated.
Just as a matter of interest, what is everyones favourite guard material?
It seems that brass is not very popular at all!
I like it myself because I'm fond of a kind of traditional look.
Actually, I may make this a seperate post!! Thanks for making me think!
Regards, Ian

 

[Hmathews]

I like the looks of both knives just fine and the pictures aren't bad either. I have always liked brass on a knife, but I only use it if a customer requests it or if I am making one for myself. I might have used a more straight on shot, but then you loose the view of the tang. To me, handle size has more to do with the size of the hand, not the blade. I have had some knives with short blades that had full size handles that were a joy to use although some might have thought them odd looking.