What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

It used to have a sharp corner there, which has been worn down into a curve over the years. If you look at the vertical flat surface (the "nose" if you will), note where the curve starts at the bottom end of that straight line, and that's where it gets sharp. So it gets blunt right after/above the radius; the radius is sharp, like a really small section of belly.
 
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This recent exchange purchase came in the mail yesterday. It carries nicely in the front pocket and the Rucarta handle is sweet.

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Tom, that´s a wonderful looking knife :)

Those covers are stunning - just a great looking Goldie!!
 
pertinux said:
1) Beautiful picture!
2) Ouch
2a) I did the same thing to my own white owl (same bone covers, spear main) under different circumstances, resulting in a nasty gouge in one of the bolsters. With some careful attention (based on the good advice of people here), I was able to remove the nasty, "raw" metal edges of the ding and smooth everything out. I think 0000 steel wool carried the day, if I recall?

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I am loving this O1 steel. All you have to do is look at it the right way,* and more patina happens. ;)

~ P.


* While eating fruit, cutting onions, etc.
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So this is the Strix from James? Very, very, very nice!!! I really like the blue handles too, micarta?

Congrats on a great new custom ~P, she's a beauty :thumbup:

<sigh> now I really want that Marttiini owl puukko :D
 
sitflyer said:
Wha wha what! Well isn't that a fine looking knife and sheath you got there!:thumbup:
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zippofan said:
So this is the Strix from James? Very, very, very nice!!! I really like the blue handles too, micarta?

Congrats on a great new custom ~P, she's a beauty :thumbup:
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Thanks, guys!

Yes, this is the Strix, my modest custom from James Terrio (Terrio Handmade Knives).

Finding the correctly-colored handle material was the source of unforeseen challenge, no small amount of mid-game frustration, and-- finally-- Win. Heh.

Most all the standard handle materials and/or dyes weren't the shade I was hoping for. Since my primary impetus for going custom was to get the right "blue," this was no small obstacle.

I'll give this knife its own thread soon, but the handles are Indigo Paperstone, which I ultimately obtained as an unfinished sample piece through a countertop wholesaler out of WA (after some back and forth in which the samples of "Denim" I ordered in turned out to be "Black," twice in a row just in case, but "Indigo"-- which has been discontinued and wasn't on the menu of choices-- turned out to be "PERFECT.") I wouldn't have known of the suitability of the material were it not for Buck's seldom-known line of kitchen knives with Paperstone handles, of which I have two.

An image I posted yesterday shows my new knife against the unfinished remnant of Paperstone:
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James knocked this one out of the park for me. :)

~ P.
 
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Went with the #85 today to see if I could NOT carry my Schrade Barlow. I made it until I got home from work then the Barlow took it's rightful place:D

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Doug Add said:
Little red bone pen.

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The more I see this knife the more I want one too. That red is really eye catching. (It would go perfectly with that red Porsche 911 that's always in my daydreams. :cool:
 
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