"Mountain Primitive" Drop Point

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This knife has a 5" blade of 1095 high carbon steel with a fully forged, distal tapered blade. The knife is 9 1/2" total length. The blade is soaked/scrubbed in white vinegar repeatedly for an antiqued finish. The guard and pommel are forge piened wrought iron and deeply etched. The tang goes straight through the pommel and is piened over and etched. The handle is stabilized Cherry Burl wood with black spacers. I set my initials in the pommel end of the handle since there is no place to do the chemical etch on the blade. The knife comes with a tooled leather belt sheath with a snake skin inlay by Tess.
Price, with leather sheath: $300.00, plus shipping.
 
Excellent looking work, I would love to see this up close, looks very interesting,
really nice work on the sheath to, hmmmmmmm!!!!
 
J,
It's good to see your staying busy. This is a new technique your using on the blade finish? I like it, very rustic.
keep- um- cumin Fred
 
Thanks guys. I've done this finish before (though not on the whole blade) and it's similar to what Tim Lively shows on his video. I leave the forge marks on the blade through HT and after all the themal cycles I put the blade in white vinegar for a few hours. Pull it out, scrub it with a fine wire brush and repeat. The blade probably sat in the bath for about 25 hrs. total. Simple but, time consuming. It was alot more difficult to forge the blade down to a shapen-able edge. I'm normally a "forge thick" kinda guy.
 
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