One of my favorite things to do is to make knives with historical materials. A couple of times a year, I'll build a "Texas Heritage Series" knife. This knife, available for purchase, comes with all kinds of wonderful stories. The blade of this knife is 33 layer slow twist 1080/15n20. This piece of steel is the other half of the billet from which I made the crescent blade of my Forged in Fire final weapon, the Qinglong Ji. The guard of this knife is wrought iron wagon wheel from my great-great grandfather George Kromer of Spicewood, TX. The spacers are World War 2 practice bomb material collected from a training target. The handle material is osage/bois d'arc fence post from a fence installed in 1912 along the railroad between Abilene and Dallas. The fileworked frame is blued mild steel. 10.5" overall length with a 5.25 blade.
Front side profile
Front side damascus
Back side profile
Back side damascus
Fileworked and blued frame handle
Screenshot of this billet from FIF
The other half made this
This one's for sale in the classifieds, now that I finally renewed my Knifemaker membership
