New to Buck 110

[pjsjr]

Thank you, Tom. That magazine held some wonderful photos.

 

[FranklinG]

Thank you, the duck comes from a stay years ago at Super 8 motels, IIRC.

The darker turtles are ones I made with a raku clay that had mica in it. Raku is low fired, I fired these in a regular wood bonfire. Sometimes the raku clay will withstand the temperature changes, sometimes not. I lost others in the firing. The light colored one is carved quartz that I picked up in a flea market.

I like turtles

Nice! That mica makes your turtles look like you put a glaze on them. (I'm fairly ignorant about things like this, so you may actually have glazed them and mica has nothing to do with it. Either way, I like the sparkle.) And that opened 110 between the bolos looks gorgeous!

 

[pjsjr]

That mica makes your turtles look like you put a glaze on them.

Thank you. The pieces are unglazed, it's the mica.

Here's a closer look at the two. Same clay but depending on where the piece was located in the fire, the finish varies.
That's part of the nature and beauty of raku.

 

[brentondan47]

Welcome... the buck 110 is an amazing knife I've only got one so far it was the first knife I bought when I was 18 in the last 13 years it's been on numerous trips to the woods moved across country and survived a house fire in which the nylon sheath was melted to it but it cleaned up amazing and still holds an edge better than any other knife I own I'm convinced that buck knives would survive an atomic blast

 

[Pack Rat]

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