Song Sung BLUE: Blue-handled Traditional Knives

[JITDC]

Thanks for reviving this thread @007hunter and BuckShack , here is my latest blue handled knife. A Northwoods Willamette Whittler.

 

[boy&hisdogs]

I don't know how I missed this thread before but here's one that I re-scaled last fall.

I got it from my then geology teacher, it was in a tray with a bunch of cheapo steak knives being used as a scratcher! Once I finished it he gave it to his son.

There was a WIP thread if you wish to read it.
http://www.bladeforums.com/threads/toothpick-rescue.1427675/

 

[Bugdoc]

Boxes, apples or pruning trees, this is about the best cutting knife I own.

 

[5K Qs]

Here's a relatively new canoe of mine. I'm not a Freemason, but I like canoes, and I like some mathematical components of the knife, and blue is a favorite color!

- GT

 

[LastRodeo]

The "G" is just icing on the cake.

 

[BuckShack]

 

[BuckShack]

 

[pertinux]

Mic Drop?

Perhaps.

I will undoubtedly add more 'blue', betimes, but nothing is going to get better than this @Fiddleback Forge Handyman in blue box elder burl:

~ P.

 

[black mamba]

Pert, the closeup looks like an El Greco painting!

 

[btb01]

Pert, the closeup looks like an El Greco painting!

I was thinking van Gogh's The Starry Night.

Either way, beautiful knife, P.!

 

[Horsewright]

Maybe blue box elder?

 

[pertinux]

Maybe blue box elder?

Y'know, mine doesn't look like any maple I've ever seen; having been told it was maple, I could only guess that the Burl factor was throwing me off.

Yet, my knife is clearly clad in the same wood you're showing here!

(Beautiful little knife!)

Box Elder, then.

Thanks for the clarification.

~ P.

 

[Horsewright]

Yep I traded for a piece of blue stabilized wood one time and built this knife:

I know the above is box elder so I'm guessing this one is maple?

Interesting little tid bit both knives went to the same customer.

 

[smiling-knife]

A Schrade stockman from near the end of the USA production.

 

[btb01]

Interesting jigging on that one, smiling-knife !

 

[traumkommode]

Maybe blue box elder?

Wowzers, that's attractive!

A Schrade stockman from near the end of the USA production.
View attachment 786312 View attachment 786313

Again, wowzers, that's attractive!

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks traumkommode

 

[pertinux]

Pert, the closeup looks like an El Greco painting!

I was thinking van Gogh's The Starry Night.

Either way, beautiful knife, P.!

Barrett, that was my immediate association as well, and I was meaning to hunt up the image you just did as a reference. I hadn't realized how closely the wood hews to the painting until seeing them together, here. Thanks.

A Schrade stockman from near the end of the USA production.
View attachment 786312 View attachment 786313

Interesting jigging on that one, smiling-knife !

Indeed-- visually attractive, with what looks to be all the right kinds of grippy.

~ P.

 

[Rockon75]

smiling-knife
Looks like what canal street cutlery called rope jigged bone, or something similar. Since Canal street had a Schrade exec, maybe it carried over. I never saw it on Schrade just csc. Thx for sharing.

 

[Horsewright]

How bout this Gordo:

That damascus could be another El Greco painting!