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[Hengelo_77]

Very classic looking Mknife!
Beautiful

 

[DevinT]

@Jeremy, I use nickel 200 or 201, the nickel is ~10-15% thickness of the knife steel. Nickel does not harden. Use 15n20 for hardenable bright layers. 15n20 should be ~20-50% thickness of the dark layers.

Hoss

 

[gudspelr]

Thank you very much, Mr. Thomas. I appreciate the explanation.

Jeremy

 

[lanternnate]

Finally finished this beast. This is easily the largest and most complicated knife I’ve attempted yet, and I’ve got more hours into than multiple others combined. We’ll leave out how much of that time was spent fixing my own mistakes I’ll be giving it to a friend’s wife so that she can give it to him as a birthday present.

 

[Hengelo_77]

What's that guard made of, aged brass?

 

[lanternnate]

What's that guard made of, aged brass?

If that question is for me, it’s a matching piece of coyote brown G10 to the piece that was used for the core of the frame handle.

 

[erik markman]

 

[mknife]

Erik, great work!

 

[HSC ///]

working on this stag frame handle
a couple more hours of finishing work and then glue the handle and pin it

 

[JTknives]

working on this stag frame handle
a couple more hours of finishing work and then glue the handle and pin it

Looks good. Is the blade done? Looks like there is still some grind marks on the blade.

 

[HSC ///]

Looks good. Is the blade done? Looks like there is still some grind marks on the blade.

thx,
most of my kitchen blades have a belt and polished finish.
obviously this one is etched.
there are grind marks, but they aren't more than 400 grit.
I don't generally hand sand or grind/polish to a high finish.

 

[DevinT]

Wut, no hand sanding? You just took the fun outta knife making.

Hoss

 

[Hengelo_77]

Hand sandin is zen

 

[M.McAlevy]

was doing a bunch of hand sanding this morning..... It helps when you listen to Pantera very loud!!!

 

[M.McAlevy]

hunter with curly dogwood found in a wood pile years ago.

 

[Stromberg Knives]

Here's the latest one, a Seax inspired fighter in 80CrV2 with a Micarta handle.

 

[Stromberg Knives]

And here's a kiridashi i just finished. It's in 4mm Niolox.

 

[Matt Rochester]

8” fillet knife, a clip point, and a large camp knife I’m working on. Both are Cpm154.

 

[Lo/Rez]

I've been messing around with the reverse tanto design for the last while. These two went to a couple of guys at work. One prefers a thinner handle and the other prefers a thicker handle. S35VN. The canvas micarta with a rough finish has been a good performer when gutting animals.

 

[Justin Schmidt]

Trying this whole hidden tang jazz