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This one was a long time coming. A couple of years ago my brother says to me "let's go on a pig hunt". I said I couldn't afford that. So he says he'll pay for the trip if I make him a pig knife. Well, I think, I don't have any money but I have some rudimentary knifemaking skills so I say I'm in. I pitch him the design of the knife which called for a blued blade. He likes the specs and the design concept. So I make a couple of blades, one for him and one for me out of 80Crv2. I don't have the equipment to blue the blades. I tried a form of cold bluing but did not get the results I wanted so I sanded the knife back to bright. I ask a gunsmith I know who has the equipment if he could blue it. He has the equipment in his garage because he doesn't do it anymore and I realize that the alloy in the 80CrV2 is not good for bluing. In fact none of the shops in the area do bluing. They all send it out to "their guy". Ok, that blade goes on a shelf.
I make a new blade out of A2 because the new plan is to Cerakote the blade. I didn't do a great job with that so I sanded that blade clean again and that went on a shelf.
Finally, a year and a half later I decide to make another blade. This one is W2 (with hamon). I decide to have one of the local shops send it to their guy to be blued. With that out of the way I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. So after two years now the knife and sheath are finally done. Some of you will say the rig would have looked better with a leather sheath. I tried to sell him on leather but his heart was set on Kydex. This is only my second attempt at Kydex and the fit is perfection. I haven't shown my brother any part of it yet. I'll be presenting the knife to him this weekend.
Critiques and comments welcomed.
Blade: Aldo's W2 (with undeveloped hamon) Blued, 11"
Guard: 416SS with red spacers, polished interior surfaces with satin finished sides
Handle: Stabilized, black dyed curly maple from Mark at Burl Source with 316 pin and lanyard tube.
OAL: 16 & 3/4"
Sheath: Kydex, cross draw with slight cant.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFhRdk4x2Re/?taken-by=aldrich_knife
I make a new blade out of A2 because the new plan is to Cerakote the blade. I didn't do a great job with that so I sanded that blade clean again and that went on a shelf.
Finally, a year and a half later I decide to make another blade. This one is W2 (with hamon). I decide to have one of the local shops send it to their guy to be blued. With that out of the way I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. So after two years now the knife and sheath are finally done. Some of you will say the rig would have looked better with a leather sheath. I tried to sell him on leather but his heart was set on Kydex. This is only my second attempt at Kydex and the fit is perfection. I haven't shown my brother any part of it yet. I'll be presenting the knife to him this weekend.
Critiques and comments welcomed.
Blade: Aldo's W2 (with undeveloped hamon) Blued, 11"
Guard: 416SS with red spacers, polished interior surfaces with satin finished sides
Handle: Stabilized, black dyed curly maple from Mark at Burl Source with 316 pin and lanyard tube.
OAL: 16 & 3/4"
Sheath: Kydex, cross draw with slight cant.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFhRdk4x2Re/?taken-by=aldrich_knife
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