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Finlay put some wood to use, it was a gift from John of JK Knives gifted us when we meet up for a Gathering a couple of weeks ago 
Decided to go with the JK Riverwoods blank I got around the same time. Anyone who hasn't tried a JK knife should think about it, they are incredibly low priced for the quality and heat treat and John just about makes whatever you want, I've been taking advantage of that with asking for several blanks, sometimes with different specs, from his knife line up HERE. I asked Jk to do this one with 1/4" holes and 1/8" inch thick 01, at 7" overall with a 4" handle. I like the design so much I didn't want to change it so much in other words
This one was designed by JDS1, who I think has a great eye for design myself, and when i got hold of this one my first reaction was 'Damn", it's about the most comfortable handle contour I've held, but enough of why you need one, on to the pictures
I'm not sure what it is but it's damn tough, burned through my 1/4" drill bit, 1.5 coping saw blades and took a fair amount of sanding disks to the grave (John said he thought it was Cocobolo)
It started out bright orange and vertical line grained, it was an interesting wood to work as it kept changing, after it was polish sanded and linseed oiled it became this deep red color and more natural looking grain
Of course despite all my effort I'm still making silly mistakes, (as you may notice near the ricasso
)I caught some of them but was unable to fix them for a variety of reasons ranging from it being too late all the way to me being too excited to slow down, but it's very comfortable in hand and I'm not disappointed
I had trouble finding a lanyard tube in brass near where I am so I went with a copper one from the pluming isle at the local hardware store, hoped it would catch the copper in the mosaic pin, not sold on it though, it's so easy to work it almost made it more difficult, still, it works
Made a bead from the leftover scale wood while I waited for the sheath to dry out a final time
Grain of the wood on the spine is really cool I think, and I also tried a new way of getting this stitch in, (two needles one on each side) but for my money it was too much trouble and I'm not seeing the worth, again, worked-happy
Here it is next to my own JK knife design, the Toby's Knife
Thanks again for another quality knife John,and the wood and good times,
and thank you all for checking it out
Decided to go with the JK Riverwoods blank I got around the same time. Anyone who hasn't tried a JK knife should think about it, they are incredibly low priced for the quality and heat treat and John just about makes whatever you want, I've been taking advantage of that with asking for several blanks, sometimes with different specs, from his knife line up HERE. I asked Jk to do this one with 1/4" holes and 1/8" inch thick 01, at 7" overall with a 4" handle. I like the design so much I didn't want to change it so much in other words
This one was designed by JDS1, who I think has a great eye for design myself, and when i got hold of this one my first reaction was 'Damn", it's about the most comfortable handle contour I've held, but enough of why you need one, on to the pictures
I'm not sure what it is but it's damn tough, burned through my 1/4" drill bit, 1.5 coping saw blades and took a fair amount of sanding disks to the grave (John said he thought it was Cocobolo)
It started out bright orange and vertical line grained, it was an interesting wood to work as it kept changing, after it was polish sanded and linseed oiled it became this deep red color and more natural looking grain
Of course despite all my effort I'm still making silly mistakes, (as you may notice near the ricasso
)I caught some of them but was unable to fix them for a variety of reasons ranging from it being too late all the way to me being too excited to slow down, but it's very comfortable in hand and I'm not disappointed
I had trouble finding a lanyard tube in brass near where I am so I went with a copper one from the pluming isle at the local hardware store, hoped it would catch the copper in the mosaic pin, not sold on it though, it's so easy to work it almost made it more difficult, still, it works
Made a bead from the leftover scale wood while I waited for the sheath to dry out a final time
Grain of the wood on the spine is really cool I think, and I also tried a new way of getting this stitch in, (two needles one on each side) but for my money it was too much trouble and I'm not seeing the worth, again, worked-happy
Here it is next to my own JK knife design, the Toby's Knife
Thanks again for another quality knife John,and the wood and good times,
and thank you all for checking it out
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