Two more with ironwood

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silver_pilate

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Here's two more with ironwood for a repeat customer. These have to get to him tomorrow for him to ship, so it's once again living with indoor lighting for pics. :( The sheaths are also mostly done (drying right now from the dye and will get oiled tomorrow), and they are my typical simple leather sheath with spring clip.

Both of these sets of ironwood I picked up from Tracy. Some really good stuff he's been getting lately. These scales have some amazing chatoyance when in the sunlight!

The specs are 5/32" CPM154, 3-1/4" blade, 7-1/2" OAL, and desert ironwood scales with black vulcanized spacers. The blades are full flat ground and hand finished.

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Here's the second one; same specs as the first:

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The angle on the pics makes the blades look a little hump-backed, and that's because there is a very small swedge on either side of the blade running most of the blade on the spine. Just enough to knock h sharp edges off.

As always, comments and critiques welcomed. Thanks for looking!

--nathan
 
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that is superb work , very nice all around, i am a big fan of cpm154:thumbup:
 
That's a beautiful knife, Nathan, superbly done! That ironwood really sets it off as well.
 
Very nice!!! I'm becoming more and more in love with Ironwood every day.

As I've posted before, I'm very new still to knifemaking. This "swedge" you're talking about that goes down the spine of the blade....basically you just ground off the sharp corner into more of a / shape?
 
Whether that's the literal definition of a swedge is up for debate. This may be considered more of a champfer. A swedge is typically done to remove weight from a blade or for aesthetics. The champfer I did on these is just is very slight and just for aesthetics and to knock of the sharp edge of the spine. I do this sometimes on my knives, but not always.

Ironwood has become my favorite handle material. It's God's handle material if you ask me ;).

Thanks for the comments everyone!

--nathan
 
Outstanding work Nathan!:thumbup::thumbup:...I know what you mean I have recently used iron wood for the first time and it has become my favorite handle material
 
Couldn't really get any better pics of the wood prior to delivering them, but here's a few pics of one of the sheaths. Both sheaths are the same made from 8oz. leather with a steel spring clip.

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--nathan
 
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