Sword & Sub-Hilt by Michael Ruth Jr. ~ JS

Caleb Royer

Caleb Royer

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Alright guys, after a lot of shooting, editing, fun, and of course coffee, here for your viewing pleasure are two phenomenal works of art by none other than Michael Ruth Jr. As some of you may know, Mike's sword shown below won the Best Sword and Best of Show awards at Blade Show 2012. It was an absolute pleasure working with Mike photographing his sword and bowie. Enjoy!


Sword specs:
Name: “Maritime Law"
Blade Length: 20 and 1/2”
Overall Length: 26”
W Ladder pattern damascus blade with 4-Bar Turkish Twist D-Guard and pre-ban elephant ivory handle.































Sub-Hilt specs:
Overall length: 19 and 3/8”
Blade length: 14 and 1/4”
Ladder pattern damascus blade and fittings from the same billet of steel.
Premium ancient walrus ivory handle.






























Thanks!
 
AMAZING knives and photography....thanks so much for posting these and congrats to you, Mike, and the very lucky new owners. :)
 
Those are awesome. The ancient walrus ivory handle is gorgeous!! thank you for the wonderful pictures.
 
For me, amazing is not even strong enough Mike! Makes me want to try and get better and at the same time, to just give up. ;)
Thanks for sharing Caleb.
 
Both amazing. The sub is one of my new favorite knives. I wish it were mine. Best Bowie 2014. Your Damascus looks incredible.
 
Outstanding pieces and outstanding photography.
Caleb, your photography really dives home just how amazingly skilled the knifemaker's is.
 
Mike Ruth, Jr., you are something special.
I love your work.
These are two crazy nice, centerpiece blades.

As for you, Caleb..
Thanks for allowing us the privilege of viewing your impressive images.

Doug
 
Still have fond memories of picking the M. Law up in Atlanta. Blew me away. What an awesome piece. You captured it wonderfully, Caleb. :thumbup:

- Joe
 
Wonderful pictures of some of the finest work I have seen

Mike you really are in a league of your own buddy
 
man, does the handle on that first one ever look phallic.
Unbelievably awesome work on those knives, and Caleb your photography is stellar.
 
That is some excellent work there. The sword is very well done, and looks like a finely balanced weapon.
 
These are stand out pieces for sure, just can't stop looking at them. :thumbup:
 
Those are incredible. I could look at those great photos for a long time, too. Thank you for posting them.


Jeremy
 
Amazing. Like Don Hanson's work, the elegance of line, classic beauty of exemplary pattern welding, and relatively restrained embellishment otherwise (plus amazing ivory) adds up to pure class and just downright pointed pulchritude.
 
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