Mammoth hunter and the death of a thousand taps

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Travis Fry

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I just finished this one up last week, and wanted to let y'all see it. What I've always called the Smithwick is my earliest and most worked over design - I frequently tweak the pattern, and this is probably version 15 or so (I haven't really tracked it). Anyway, this one is 440C with interior mammoth. The slightly dovetailed bolsters are 416 and the domed pins are nickel silver. I have a lot of respect for anyone who domes pins; pins on this one required a couple of hours in a 4x Optivisor and what seemed like a million light taps with a little bitty mirror polished hammer. I went a little outside my usual box on the sheath too.

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Nice job on both. Really liking the oak leaf carving. Good depth to it.
 
That is gorgeous. And please, your sheath...... stay outside the box.

Very nice work indeed.

-Peter
 
Mighty good looking Travis.
Looking like you have your tapping down!
Knife and Sheath!
Dozier
Accuracy beats speed
 
Very nice. Great work on those pins
 
nice one travis, super clean looking knife. I have seen a tutorial somewhere that showed the pins being domed or polished with a concaved rod in a drill press . might be worth experimenting with.
 
Thank you all for your kind words. I'm a big fan of ivory; one can only hope that any new legislation will allow it to remain available from sustainable sources.
 
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