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Reese Weiland re-blade in .160" M390...



 
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Tom Krein reground the blade, had it beadblasted here in the Philippines. The handle was not comfortable, so I reprofiled it.

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The G10 was thicker that what I felt comfortable with, spent around 3 hours with a file.


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The knife is nothing special but the handle wood comes from the ship wreck of the MV Malabar what was built in 1925 in Scottland and then in 1931 sunk off the east coast of Australia. The ship was suspected of bringing opium in to Australia for the opium dens in China town Sydney. The handle wood was under water for around 80 years. I dove on the wreck a couple of years ago and salvaged one smallish piece of timber from a hull stay ,I dryed it out for a couple of years it was very brittle so I stabilized it with a couple of coats of resin .I couldn't think of a better thing to do with it than trying to make a knife with it.
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