New Forged Knife

Greg Covington

Greg Covington

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Hey friends,

I finished this one last week. It has an eight in blade of 1084. It is fully forged and edge quenched. I etched the blade in ferric chloride to show the temper line.

The guard is mild steel which I shaped in with my forge, anvil, and vise. (Thanks to Bruce Evans for the online tutorial!!) The finish on the guard is cold blueing.

The small brass collar is brass and is silver soldered in place.

The handle material is black locust wood...which was bright yellow naturally and after several stain attempts...the best color I got was with brown leather dye.

I made the sheath of 8-9 oz hide and added the tooling on the face as an extra touch.

It was made with a culmination of ideas from Bruce Evans, Bill Bagwell, Wayne Goddard and Ed Fowler. I have been carrying it for a week now and I love it!!

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Man, that is a truly fine knife, it almost looks like it'd jump off the table. Hat's off to you for sure!

Dave
 
That is gorgeous, XRAYED! Congratulations. All those different components just flow together to make one beautiful package.:)
 
XRAYED -- that is one nice looking Bowie! Very sweet. The parts all go very well together. Is it one you're going to keep for yourself, or put out for sale? (Can't afford it right now, but curious.)
 
I plan on selling knives as I make them. Right now I am doing some designs that I have wanted to try for awhile now. Soon, I plan to make a standard pattern combat knife...kinda a combo of all the things I like from fighters, survival, and Bowies. What a mix!

Thanks for all the compliments!
 
WOW:eek: :eek: :eek:
That is a AWESOME looking Knife,Looks like it will be working for you the rest of your life.
Thanks for putting my name in a line up of some of the best Makers there are out there,I never thought I would see the day that my name was mentioned in any sentence with those names in it.
Bruce
 
That's a keeper Xrayed. It's beautiful. Bruce, before I read the post my first reaction was that it WAS one of your knives!
 
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