New Searles style bowie

C-Camerer

C-Camerer

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Hey guys, here is one I just finished tonight. It has a 9 1/4" forged 1084 blade(one of the pics has a weird yellow spot on the blade but it is just the scanner light reflecting from the blade). The guard is nickel silver, the spacers are nitre-blued steel, filworked nickle silver and nitre-blued steel. The handle is ebony with nickle silver pins and a hippo ivory inlay overall length of the handle is 4 3/4". Balance point of the knife is the guard. I have been making a few of these lately and they are very challenging for me, keeping the secondary grind on the upper portion of the blade even gives me fits. I am gettting ready to do one with ivory for the handle(it may put me in the mental ward). Sorry my scanner is not big enough to give you an overall view!

Craig

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That is awsome! I've been wanting to make a Searless type bowie, but after looking at that, I know there's no way I'd measure up! Absolutly beutifull!
 
I see where you're coming from on that grind. Do you or could you grind it vertically? Or do much of the work by hand? Just curious, I've been thinking down this road too and it looks daunting. Beautiful job, what a knife!

Dave
 
Thanks guys! Sorry I haven't been posting much on the forums lately but I have been behind on orders and have been spending my free time trying to catch up! To Grind the top bevel I am grinding it in horizontally and then finish out by hand to even everything up. I have been able to get them pretty well even on the grinder but it has been nerve racking for me. I grind most of my false edges on my bowies vertically on the platen but on this style I have been unable to mantain the straghtness of the grind vertically.

Any of you guys going to the Arkansas Show in Feb? They switched to the new venue and it had a little more room, I was far enough up on the waiting list to be able to get a table. I can't wait!
 
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