New life out of the re forge pile.....

Raymond Richard · Nov 10, 2003

Both these knives came out of my re forge pile. My shop runs out of the pile system. A pile for this and a pile for that sort of thing. The top blade is O-1 and the bottom one is W-1. Both blades are 5 1/2" and overall in the 10 1/2" range. The fittings are cold blued 1018 and both handles are chocolate dyed monkey pod.

misque · Nov 10, 2003

Ray, I do like your sense of style in knifemaking. Cool and clean with a simple elegance.

Beautiful work!

edited to correct an idiotic semantic error

ExamonLyf · Nov 10, 2003

I like both of those also....thanks for the pictures...

Stumpy · Nov 10, 2003

I like then too.They look like they would make a perfect hunter.I like a hunter with a little more blade.But what is dyed monkey pod?

Raymond Richard · Nov 11, 2003

Monkey pod is a Hawian wood, looks something like koa but not the same thing. Its a very stable wood. One of the most irratating woods I've ever worked with.

Keith Montgomery · Nov 11, 2003

Very, very clean lines. So, do these knives have slight trailing points or is it just the way they look in the picture?

Raymond Richard · Nov 11, 2003

Keith, They look just like they are in the picture except bigger. Don't expect trick photography from me, I have a hard enough time getting a halfway decent picture.

Keith Montgomery · Nov 11, 2003

It's not trick photography that I am referring to. It is just that sometimes in photgraphs a straight backed blade can have the appearance of being a trailing point.

Raymond Richard · Nov 11, 2003

Keith, There both trailing. Most of what I'm going to be doing will be simular to this style of blade.

golok · Nov 13, 2003

Nice, simple knives are sometimes the best under most circumstances.

Good work.