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Bowie I made that has a bit of a history behind it.
Some years ago (around 2010) I'd not been making knives for a long time. I would check the forum for some of my favourite makers and was completely in love with some of the bowie blades that Don Hanson III and David Broadwell and Larry Feugen and several other very talented people make.
I really wanted a big hefty but beautiful bowie like that...but knew I would not be able to afford any of their pieces for a while.
Then one day I ran into someone selling a billet of steel that looked like something really cool to me.
It was a San Mai construction with the two outer layers made of Harley Davidson Chain damascus and the inner layer being 52100.
Since it was my Birthday (or close to it) I bought it for myself.
There was also a sale going on at Burlsource.us where I bought a big block of stabilised Black dyed maple burl that I figured would make a really cool handle. (Magnus Axelsson had been showing off an amazing piece for someone else with the same material so it struck a chord)
Both pieces were in my closet for years... I just simple didn't want to try make something out of them because I feared I'd not do the materials justice.
Last year I finally worked up the nerve to get started on it and it took me around 6 months to get everything finished.
A matching sheath was offcourse needed.
The inlay in the sheath will probably seem a little odd to many people. However it also has a story behind it.
The fur is Rabbit fur.
Around 2000 I was on a mission for my church in Scotland. Me and my colleague were walking home to our appartement in Glenrothes through a park there in the evening. We decided to cut across the grass and as we did so we must've scared a rabbit in the nearby bushes because it bolted across the grass and over a small hill.
There we heard a THUMP. So we went over and had a look and we saw a car driving away. We were wondering if it'd hit the rabbit or something so we checked it out and indeed....found a very dead rabbit.
It was however fairly intact and did not seem to have suffered much in the way out cosmetic damage. We ended up deciding to take it home in a plastic bag.
In our appartement there were two more guys, one of which was from rural Utah and knew his way around a hunting rifle and animal carcasses. We were able to convince him to try and skin the rabbit which he did....on the back porch of our appartement building above some newspapers with his leatherman.
Afterwards....we still didn't really know what to do with the skin...but we figured...it needs to dry. So we rubbed it in with salt (lots of it) and hung it in the halway closet to try. (To this day I'm mostly happy that it didn't start to smell and that no one called the landlord on us).
I've kept that rabbit skin for around 16 years and knew that I had to do something with it now that I was making it for myself.
The guard and spacers have no story behind them. The guard is textured, hardened and polished 80CrV2 steel and the spacers are Camel Bone and Polypropylene.
Anyway...without further ado... the Roadkill Bowie.
[video=youtube;8vLQ_Rk5ou4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vLQ_Rk5ou4[/video]
Some years ago (around 2010) I'd not been making knives for a long time. I would check the forum for some of my favourite makers and was completely in love with some of the bowie blades that Don Hanson III and David Broadwell and Larry Feugen and several other very talented people make.
I really wanted a big hefty but beautiful bowie like that...but knew I would not be able to afford any of their pieces for a while.
Then one day I ran into someone selling a billet of steel that looked like something really cool to me.
It was a San Mai construction with the two outer layers made of Harley Davidson Chain damascus and the inner layer being 52100.
Since it was my Birthday (or close to it) I bought it for myself.
There was also a sale going on at Burlsource.us where I bought a big block of stabilised Black dyed maple burl that I figured would make a really cool handle. (Magnus Axelsson had been showing off an amazing piece for someone else with the same material so it struck a chord)
Both pieces were in my closet for years... I just simple didn't want to try make something out of them because I feared I'd not do the materials justice.
Last year I finally worked up the nerve to get started on it and it took me around 6 months to get everything finished.
A matching sheath was offcourse needed.
The inlay in the sheath will probably seem a little odd to many people. However it also has a story behind it.
The fur is Rabbit fur.
Around 2000 I was on a mission for my church in Scotland. Me and my colleague were walking home to our appartement in Glenrothes through a park there in the evening. We decided to cut across the grass and as we did so we must've scared a rabbit in the nearby bushes because it bolted across the grass and over a small hill.
There we heard a THUMP. So we went over and had a look and we saw a car driving away. We were wondering if it'd hit the rabbit or something so we checked it out and indeed....found a very dead rabbit.
It was however fairly intact and did not seem to have suffered much in the way out cosmetic damage. We ended up deciding to take it home in a plastic bag.
In our appartement there were two more guys, one of which was from rural Utah and knew his way around a hunting rifle and animal carcasses. We were able to convince him to try and skin the rabbit which he did....on the back porch of our appartement building above some newspapers with his leatherman.
Afterwards....we still didn't really know what to do with the skin...but we figured...it needs to dry. So we rubbed it in with salt (lots of it) and hung it in the halway closet to try. (To this day I'm mostly happy that it didn't start to smell and that no one called the landlord on us).
I've kept that rabbit skin for around 16 years and knew that I had to do something with it now that I was making it for myself.
The guard and spacers have no story behind them. The guard is textured, hardened and polished 80CrV2 steel and the spacers are Camel Bone and Polypropylene.
Anyway...without further ado... the Roadkill Bowie.
[video=youtube;8vLQ_Rk5ou4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vLQ_Rk5ou4[/video]
