Makers: Post pics of your knives.

Some really cool knives here guys.

This is custom knife I made for a friend a while ago. He wanted something a bit elvish. I decide to experiment a bit with the handle construction. The poplar burl is really elvish to me.
The handle is purple heart, poplar burl and african blackwood. Steel is the Suminagshi cladding with white #2. The blade profile was also a first. It has little belly like a Gyuto but the spine drops down way further back on the blade than normal on a japanese blade.

It still looks a bit dirty cause it was only just finished.

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There is actually green tones in the poplar that you can't see is this pic. Also I know very little about elves. I was trying to do a curvy handle with a kind of leaf shaped blade to make it "elvish"
 
nice looking profile, looks like a great rocker
 
two new knives
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This knife is 8 1/4" long with a 4 inch handle and weighs 3.6 ounces. The handle is made from hard maple. I used high gloss polyurethane to finish the handle.

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This knife is 8 1/4" long with a 4 inch handle and weighs 3.2 ounces. The handle is canary wood. I used high gloss polyurethane to finish the handle.

Both blades, 4 1/4" long, 4" cutting edge, are 0.45" thick at the spine and 0.003" thick at the edge. 1.2519 high carbon tool steel (C:1,15%/Mn:0,4%/W:1,4%/Cr:1,3%/V:0,25%) hardened and tempered to a final hardness of Rc64-65, The edge was then ground to 8 degrees per side then hand worked to razor sharpness. I purchased the steel from these folks https://www.schmiedeglut.de/tungsten-steel-knifesteel_2.
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Wow! That is a gorgeous knife Josh from end to end. Well done sir!
 
FOG2 said:
Wow! That is a gorgeous knife Josh from end to end. Well done sir!
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Thank you I really appreciate that! This whole knife making thing has been an uphill battle so the kind words are always welcomed lol.

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a few new knives finished

Continental french w/ hamon and ebony




A designed hard user-- antiqued german chef



and a barebones set- utility/boning and gyuto
 
Very nice Gabe. I like the kinda rustic handle choices.

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2016 KITH knife. 165mm aebl blade with full distal taper. My Dove-Wa handle with yakal frame, bog oak scales and ironwood endcaps.
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