Rustic EDC

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primos

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This one is a little rustic every day carry. The blade length is approximately 3". The blade and guard are forged from 1084.

The ricasso and spine are hammer textured, and there is a fileworked thumb ramp on the spine. The guard is also hammer textured, with a fileworked groove around it.

The handle is Ring Gidgee, and has a core walrus ivory inlay. The mechanical bond of handle to tang is by means of a pin hidden under the inlay.
 
JUST LIKE THIS, well, that would be about the perfect EDC fixed blade that I have ever seen. Just my .02, though. ;)

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
possibly one of my favorites from all the beauties you've made. :eek:
 
I sure do appreciate the positive feedback guys. I really do want to get more into experimentation with textures, colors, curves, etc. I have lots of ideas.

It would be nice to be able to do more along these lines, but I'm just not sure if I can justify the time. One would think that doing something "rustic" like this would be faster and easier, but it's not. Not by a long shot.

It's a lot more time and work intensive than just slapping on a guard and handle roughly to shape, then refining everything at the grinder, like most of us do on a simple hunter.

Obviously I couldn't grind the handle down to the textured guard and finish it -- I'd be grinding on the guard and screw it up. So everything has to be finished and fitting perfectly before the final assembly.

That's one thing that made me think of hiding the pins under the inlay. When the handle went on, it was aligned with the finished guard by means of indexing pins that are hidden between the guard and handle. The slot for the inlay was already in place, but the inlay was not put in at that point.

Once the bonding agent had cured, two small holes were drilled in the slot for the inlay until I was through the tang, but before breaking out through the other side. The pins were inserted and tapped down with a nail set, then the inlay was inserted.

Of course I still had to carefully work down the inlay until is was flush, but that was only one point of possible screwup on one side. That's better than having the finished handle attached and having to deal with the the inlay and two visible pins. Since the two pins would have to be worked down on both sides, and the inlay on one side, I'd have had five different points that gave potential for screwing up.

Sorry for rambling. Too much coffee. :D
 
Another beaut of a knife, Terry. I really like the rustic look.
I'm really looking forward to that El Camino with the similar pinning :D
 
Just out of curiosity, the handle design.. anyone know the history of that general pattern? It looks similar the "Sendero" hunter that Jerry Fisk makes, and a few others I've seen.
David
 
Thats an amazing looking knife. I love the 'well used' look and I feel that if I owned it, I could actually use it. Just curious (and sorry if its frowned upon), but how much would something like this sell for?

Mark
 
2knife said:
Just out of curiosity, the handle design.. anyone know the history of that general pattern? It looks similar the "Sendero" hunter that Jerry Fisk makes, and a few others I've seen.
David
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It's quite similar to the handle on a Sendero, and in fact is a slightly modified version of a handle template I confiscated from Jerry. On this little knife it is more-or-less a hybrid between his Sendero and his Bird & Trout. You'll see a lot of Fisk influence in some of my work since Jerry has been one of my primary teachers through the years.

As far as the history, the handle design was loosely based on one he saw in a book. It was not a copy of course. It was one of those deals where he thought "H-m-m, if I were to take something like that, and do this..."

Watching Jerry tinker with ideas is something to behold. The wheels are always turning. I've seen him come up with ideas scribbling on a napkin in a restaurant while we were waiting for the meal to arrive. Then somewhere down the road see a finished knife and realize it's what he was drawing on the napkin.

Anyway, because of the popularity of the Sendero for so many years, the handle design has become forever associated with the Sendero and Jerry Fisk. Rightfully so I'd say.

Minjin said:
... Just curious (and sorry if its frowned upon), but how much would something like this sell for?

Mark
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You're right, doing business and talking prices on the forums is strictly taboo. Suffice it to say that it's more than a knife in a blister pack at Walmart, and less than a Fisk. :D
 
That is a beautiful blade ! I love the color of the wood and the hammerwork is excellent.
Nice job :)
 
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