S Guard Damascus Fighter

[Burchtree]

About a month ago, Mr. Bill Buxton allowed me to visit him and work on some damascus. It was a great experience, and I learned a lot and had a blast. One of these days, I'll post those pics and explain more in detail. In short, we made a twist billet and a random pattern (okay, I did a lot of watching ).

After that, we forged a couple of blades out, a small hunter, and a large bowie. Bill showed me how to hammer, and did quite a bit of work on the damascus, but still sent me home with the billets and the forged blades.

Anyway, I was finally able to start work on the bowie last weekend, and it is my first V ground blade. The guard and endcap are both of the same damascus with Tamboti and paper micarta spacers filling in the rest. This is the second handle I put on this, the first just didn't look right.

The blade distal-tapered from ricasso to tip and is a little under 10-inches long and the overall length comes in a little under 16 inches.

It's still a month away, but I'm going to call this blade my anniversary blade, to mark my one year of making blades.

Let me know what you think -- sorry for the poor pics, I shot them early this morning.

 

[Burchtree]

The guard, ricasso, and plunge cut:

 

[Burchtree]

the handle:

 

[Bruce Bump]

Sweeeet! Great styling and all around work.

 

[Dan Gray]

Michael nice job...

 

[J. Neilson]

I thought it was a great looking knife before the close up of the damascus. Great job!

 

[B . Buxton]

Michael, Awesome Job. The blade, guard, handle material, go great together, I bet it feels great in the hand too. You need to take that to Bass pro and show them, I bet it will raise some eyebrows.


Bill

 

[Burchtree]

Thanks for the compliments.

Bill -- I'll just take it with me when I ask for a raise.

 

[Will52100]

Looks great, and good looking damascus too, nice subtle shaping on the handle, looks like it would be comfortable to hold.