Outstanding ironwood

[Gossman Knives]

I don't use this wood very often but when I do, it always amazes me. The grain is superb. This is a customer requested A2 steel WST with ironwood.
Scott

 

[abo4ster]

Wow. that looks great!

 

[Mike Carter Custom Knives]

Desert Ironwood is my absolute favorite although the good stuff is getting pretty scarce and pricy. Great looking knife!

 

[jds1]

Lots of character in those slabs. Nice choice. :thumbup:

Jeff

 

[James_Terrio]

Scott, do you use anything special to glue the slabs to the tang, or just regular epoxy? I'm curious because ironwood is known for being oily, and I'm wondering if typical epoxies stick/cure well to it.

Definitely a handsome using knife :thumbup:

 

[Gossman Knives]

James I use gorilla glue. Clamped for 24 hours, it's very strong. I've used GG with lignum vitae wood and it has held extremely well after constant pounding. Lignum vitae is waxy.
Scott

 

[KuRUpTD]

Great looking knife ... the ironwood is real nice.

 

[James_Terrio]

James I use gorilla glue. Clamped for 24 hours, it's very strong.

Thanks! I recently read Tracy Mickley's thread about glue wars, and Gorilla Glue was one of the better performers he found for gluing wood to metal.

 

[lungcutter]

Scott, That is some great looking wood. I bet that the photos dont do it justice.

 

[sicily02]

WOW Scott that really turned out nice. I just looked in the jantz knife making catolog that I have and some day I am going to get some of that wood and give it a try.
That wood is really cool looking.


Bryan

 

[Fonly]

Scott, that is outstanding, you give me something to inspire too.:thumbup:

 

[kgd]

Looks pretty awesome Scott!

 

[misanthrope]

Damn, Scott, that's beautiful...

 

[hollowdweller]

Love the 2 toned stuff

 

[MRpink]

Wow, that came out awesome!

 

[SpookyPistolero]

Ooph, that's some handsome stuff Scott! Well done. I was just about to say, the grain on that one looks just like HD's Shing!

 

[Gossman Knives]

Scott, That is some great looking wood. I bet that the photos dont do it justice.

You are so right. The grain just comes alive when tung oil is applied.

HD, I remember that one when you sent it to me. That handle is beautiful.

Here's a pic of the sheath. Scout style carry. This knife is heavy so this carry method works well to distribute the weight.
Scott

 

[silenthunterstudios]

I just wanna say, I bought some nice ironwood scales for a Tusker I commissioned from Scott a couple years ago. The scales looked great when I got them. After Scott was through, I think it's still the prettiest handles I've seen.

 

[tonym]

What beauty Scott!!

Ironwood is some purty stuff!

 

[DWK2]

Nice ironwood!

I was interested that you mentioned lignum vitae because I have one knife handled in that. I looked it up and it's the hardest/densest wood commonly available. 4500 on the Janka scale (with pines being 300-900 and maple around 1500). It actually sinks in water. What interested me most is that it was employed as a bearing material until fairly recently. I read that some of the bearings on the first nuclear sub (USS Nautilus) were lignum vitae.

Interesting history to lignum vitae but it's not nearly as pretty as your ironwood handle!

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