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Greetings all,
This is a recent arrival from Burt that I've been enjoying so much it's been hard to put it down long enough to post it up on the forums.
What started out as a plan for a knife similar to Thor's piece from Blade '09 which blew me - and a whole lot of other people - away, evolved into something different. And it's something I like very much indeed.
This Persian laminate fighter sports a 10 1/8" upswept blade of Burt's signature forged to shape 416 stainless over 1095 carbon laminated steel. Overall length is 15 1/4". The handle is a stunning piece of Koa, in respect of which I owe a huge note of thanks to fellow forumite and Koa fan, Bill F. The curved guard is also signture Foster, and both it and the damascus butt cap sport a silver spacer.
This isn't my first laminate blade from Burt, but it is my favorite. The large, wide, swept blade makes an impressive canvas for the display of one of the more innovative developments in the forged blade in recent times. The cloudy, hamon-like transition zone betwen the carbon core at the cutting edge and the stainless flats takes on a bluish haze when the light hits it just right - a really neat effect.
As ever, the sheath is both a beautiful piece of work in its own right and a perfect match to the knife itself. That only looks like an insert - it's all one piece of leather with some talented tooling that pulls off a very convincing illusion.
And I must say I am now a HUGE fan of Koa. Really chatoyant wood, just like really chatoyant damascus - can't ever really be captured in a still photo as it is but one still frame from a beautiful motion picture. But the deep golden-bronze stripes in this wood truly seem to draw in ambient light and make it dance like crazy. Burt put a very time-consuming oil finish on this piece of wood and it was certainly worth the effort.
And it more than looks good - the handle feels great in hand. The knife is very light, fast and well-balanced for a large piece - which is what you want in a large fighter.
Bottom line - this one hits on all cylinders for me.
Thanks Burt!
Roger
This is a recent arrival from Burt that I've been enjoying so much it's been hard to put it down long enough to post it up on the forums.
What started out as a plan for a knife similar to Thor's piece from Blade '09 which blew me - and a whole lot of other people - away, evolved into something different. And it's something I like very much indeed.
This Persian laminate fighter sports a 10 1/8" upswept blade of Burt's signature forged to shape 416 stainless over 1095 carbon laminated steel. Overall length is 15 1/4". The handle is a stunning piece of Koa, in respect of which I owe a huge note of thanks to fellow forumite and Koa fan, Bill F. The curved guard is also signture Foster, and both it and the damascus butt cap sport a silver spacer.
This isn't my first laminate blade from Burt, but it is my favorite. The large, wide, swept blade makes an impressive canvas for the display of one of the more innovative developments in the forged blade in recent times. The cloudy, hamon-like transition zone betwen the carbon core at the cutting edge and the stainless flats takes on a bluish haze when the light hits it just right - a really neat effect.
As ever, the sheath is both a beautiful piece of work in its own right and a perfect match to the knife itself. That only looks like an insert - it's all one piece of leather with some talented tooling that pulls off a very convincing illusion.
And I must say I am now a HUGE fan of Koa. Really chatoyant wood, just like really chatoyant damascus - can't ever really be captured in a still photo as it is but one still frame from a beautiful motion picture. But the deep golden-bronze stripes in this wood truly seem to draw in ambient light and make it dance like crazy. Burt put a very time-consuming oil finish on this piece of wood and it was certainly worth the effort.
And it more than looks good - the handle feels great in hand. The knife is very light, fast and well-balanced for a large piece - which is what you want in a large fighter.
Bottom line - this one hits on all cylinders for me.
Thanks Burt!
Roger
