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keithf

keithf

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Here are a couple I have finished ready for the Adelaide show this coming weekend.
Thanks for looking and comments welcome.
Cheers Keith

W2 with damascus guard, domed pin and Cocobollo handle
BL 5 1/2",145mm
OAL 11 1/2", 295mm





San Mai, cant remember how many layers of 1075 and 15N20 ( but its alot ) with a core of 1095. Stainless guard, domed pin with Red Mallee Burl handle.








One of my Little Guys
440C, canvas Micarta with blue liners.
BL 3 1/2" 85mm
OAL 7 3/4" 195mm





Cheers Keith
 
Very nice looking knives, especially the hunter. Really like the sheaths as well, are they yours?
 
Keith, all of those are nice. I really like the first one a lot. Nice work on the leather too.
 
Nice work all around. The handle contouring on the Red Mallee drop point knife looks super comfortable and secure--great job, mate. Really like the recessed shallow-domed pin, also--no matter what happens with the wood, that pin will look and feel right.
 
The first one is absolutely perfect. Simple, clean, classy, and functional. If I were designing my ideal knife, I suspect it would look exactly like that. Stunning work, sir.
 
Red mallee burl and san mai are matched well.
Australian woods always make me turn on :D
I remember that brought few pieces on my last trip to Byron.
The hamon is so nice!
I really love to see blades with hamon

Awesome works as usual!
 
Nice work Keith. I see you don't mind dipping a toe into the dark side with the little 440C blade. See you at the bar on Friday mate.
 
Looking forward to seeing these up close in Adelaide. I like the way the hamon flows through the ricasso on the W2 blade.
 
Will York said:
Really like the recessed shallow-domed pin, also--no matter what happens with the wood, that pin will look and feel right.
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that's pretty much what I was going to say, only Will said it better than what I had in mind. Nice work Keith!
 
Wish I could make it down to the Adelaide show mate but I no chance at this stage. Looking forward to seeing your work up close and personal at Sydney in August though!

BTW: Really like the first two, but having said that even the little guy is screaming out "USE ME!!!" ;)

Cheers......Pete
 
Thank you very much for your comments all. Really looking forward to the show and a Coopers Pale off the tap, Hmmm
Cheers Keith
 
Will York said:
Really like the recessed shallow-domed pin, also--no matter what happens with the wood, that pin will look and feel right.
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Lorien said:
that's pretty much what I was going to say...
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Lorien, I learned that from our friend Stuart Branson who did one like that on the last hunter he built for me.

I really like the concept, as the smooth domed pin does not stand proud of the wood surface by enough to chafe or cause discomfort, and expansion/contraction of the wood going back-and-forth between wet and dry climates has no noticeable effect on appearance or feel. My ironwood-handled hunter went from Stuart's shop there on the Vancouver Island coast to my home in the New Mexico high desert for a year and has now been with me on the coast in Washington State since last spring--no discernible change in feel or appearance at any point along the way.

Love it. :thumbup:
 
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