Thar she blows!!!!!!

jdm61

jdm61

itinerant metal pounder
Joined
Aug 12, 2005
Messages
47,357
No, this is not a whine and cheese post that was mistakenly put in custom and handmade. :eek::rolleyes: I just thought that I would use a whaling reference because this is my first attempt at a "harpoon" style blade and also my first successful attempt at a really large recurve blade to boot. The blade is a hair under 11 inches long, 1.65 wide at the choil and about .275 at the ricasso. It is 375 layer 1084/15N20 ladder pattern steel and the guard is made form blade material. The handle is stabilized redwood burl from Mark. The picture was taken by Norbert at the Gembloux show.
Joe Mandt.jpg
 
...and a very nice successful attempt it is!

Would love to see a bigger picture of the steel - the pattern looks very good.
Hope you had a great show and didn't spend all your money on beer...
 
LOL. I did okay this year. Not as good as last year for me, but I didn't have any handle materials to sell this time. Still better than 2011, which was kind of a bad year for many of the fixed blade makers. As for the beer, my friend Remy brought me three 750ml bottles of specialty brews from the French part of Flanders, so I didn't have to buy any to bring back. I did manage to have a few at the show hall. ;)
Michael Starr said:
...and a very nice successful attempt it is!

Would love to see a bigger picture of the steel - the pattern looks very good.
Hope you had a great show and didn't spend all your money on beer...
Click to expand...
 
jonathan brand said:
Your nicest knife to date! (that I know of). Cool piece.
Click to expand...

Jon, this may be one of those projects like the stag bowie pair that Michael bought from me a few years back where I pushed myself to do something new. I tried a couple of design elements that I had not done before and managed to pull it off. To me, the angle of the picture actually makes the blade look proportionally a bit smaller than when I look at it in my hand. The knife is not "Wheeler perfect" but I am pretty pleased with it. :D
 
Last edited:
I wondered whose ugly, french fry grease encrusted fingerprints those were on the guard and blade!!!!!:mad::D
eastvillage said:
A very nice piece Joe. It handled very good, positive grip on the handle and and nice balance!
Click to expand...
 
Thanks, guys. I suspect that I will be doing more like this with the "sculpted" wood handles if for no other reason than large pieces of stag, my preferred handle material for these big knives, are getting much harder to find and MUCH pricier these days. Assuming that you can find a big popcorny carvers, you almost can't afford to put them on a plain steel knife. Stag has been heading the same direction that mammoth and walrus ivory did a few years back.
 
Erik, I told Norbert i needed a "raw" unedited small file to send to the guy in Spain. He wasn't doing the "clean up" until he got home.
erik markman said:
Very nice, Joe. Where did you get the pic so quick?
I am still waiting for mine.
Click to expand...
 
This knife does not have a sheath yet. So what should I do, guys? Get one or just sell it as is with the appropriate discount?
 
jdm61 said:
This knife does not have a sheath yet. So what should I do, guys? Get one or just sell it as is with the appropriate discount?
Click to expand...

Kinda sounds like putting the cart before the horse. ;) I just figured makers priced their knives, then added for the sheath, if provided.
 
LOL, no we have to operate under the assumption that the customer figures that the sheath is free no matter how nice it is and if the knife doesn't have one, a deep discount is required. ;)
Kevin Jones said:
Kinda sounds like putting the cart before the horse. ;) I just figured makers priced their knives, then added for the sheath, if provided.
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top