W1 and Spalted Maple

Karl B. Andersen

Karl B. Andersen

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Here's a 12 inch Bowie style cutter with Spalted Maple handle material. The W1 blade is fully hardened, and the entire package is of the Take-down variety!
The mild steel fittings are fluted and jeweled with selective polishing on the facets and flutes. Flats on all pieces are satin.
The blade is 7 inches to the face of the guard.
In the second photo, I did a little "thing"!
As I shaped the handle with my files, the details from one side to the next became increasingly identical! The spalting runs exactly horizontally through the handle. I took a picture of each side individually, and then with my photo program "flipped" one side so they are both going the same direction to show how similar one side is to the next.
I thought that was worth a picture of its own!
This piece of handle material is the most solid and flawless piece of material I have ever used.
I hope you enjoy it as well.

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That handle is like nothing I've ever seen before! I love it! It reminds of continents colliding on Earth.

Very Cool work! :thumbup:
 
Awesome wood on that one Karl. And solid good-looking work from you as well...

-d
 
Nice stuff, Karl! Slick little piece of foto manipulation to show off that wonderful wood.
 
Nice work Carl !!...reminds me of the Old Bowie blade handle my father made from Burmese Teak that my father got when he was diving on the Japanese warship the "Suva Maru"...the teak is still in great shape here in my shed, even after being under the Pacific Ocean for over 25 years !!...Doug Brown, New Zealand....(Ex. Morris Illinois Farm boy !!)
 
Fantastic! That handle is amazing! Great job all around but I could stare at that handle for hours.
 
dbrown said:
Nice work Carl !!...reminds me of the Old Bowie blade handle my father made from Burmese Teak that my father got when he was diving on the Japanese warship the "Suva Maru"...the teak is still in great shape here in my shed, even after being under the Pacific Ocean for over 25 years !!...Doug Brown, New Zealand....(Ex. Morris Illinois Farm boy !!)
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I have been to Morris many times. There's an exotic wood supplier there. I have some Teak as well that I got in Key west Florida that was salvaged from some old sunken vessel. still in good shape.
Stay safe in New Zealand.
 
Great looking piece and even better because of the take down feature. Been going to try doing that myself one day. Thanks for the great photos. Jim
 
Love the knife and that wood is just amazing. Some day I hope to be good enough to pull off a take down.
 
I love the nice subtle tones and that spalting is fantastic!

Great work, as always.

By-the-way: I took your advice and bought one of those cabinet rasps from
Brownells. Man, does that little bugger remove a lot of material :eek: and still leaves
an pretty nice finish to boot!

Dana
 
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