W2 spike hawk WIP

Lon Humphrey

Lon Humphrey

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with all the Kepharts i have been doing and with the up coming Ohio Classic Knife Show

i decided i needed to change it up a bit for my sanity

so i started off with a bar of 1X 1 1/2 W2



(yes that is a subliminal message)

marked a center line



marked the ends of the slot




drilled holes for the slot


milled a 1/4 inch slot for the drift



forged the spike and bit first



then i drifted the hole, yes i know its a fugly forging but its my first one



after grinding away all that wasent hawk



im happy every thing is centered






thanks for looking ill add more as i get it finished
 
Cool wip what wood are you standing it on ? I think Zebrano or some type of striped woods look great under these .
 
it is looking nice indeed. I have to say the spike is a lot longer than I'm used to seeing, which is not to say I don't like it.
 
welllllll today i had a couple of pics opening up the drift a little more but the phone went in the rain barrel. smart phones dont like water, i suspect that cats and smart phones have a lot in common

but i ordered the best curly maple handle that dunlap woodcraft had to offer. i even had a text message from them with a pic of the handle but that too went in the drink.

the day wasent a total loss.

yeah on second thought it was
 
ok the NSA must really want the pics because the phone just turned on all by itself

here are the pics

i got the handle on the left



i needed to open up the eye just a little bit and the bet way i could think of was to get a piece of heavy wall pipe and drift it too


it needed about another inch deeper



first the pipe





and this is where the phone went for a swim
 
Very cool. Is that chunk of W2 one of the square pieces that Don H. was selling a number of years back?
 
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