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[Fixall]

New product I’ve been working on with Richlite!

the two prototypes went very well, so I’ll be bringing more combinations to the market.

The scale on the left is Redstone and Black Diamond laid up in very thin layers and bound with phenolic, while the one on the right is Blue Canyon and Black Diamond. I’m really loving Richlite, it can burn if you’re not using sharp, fresh abrasives but it works nearly the same as the old paper Micarta we’ve all grown to love. It also doesn’t tend to crack while peening like paperstone and some of the other modern paper phenolics I’ve tested.

Really digging it!

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

I like the thicker walled non counter-sunk lanyard tube that matches the size of the corby's. Would look beautiful on a nice block handle that's as tall as the ricasso with the blade shape of the knife on the far right (top pic) with a pommel that ends in a subtle less rounded ) shape. Maybe a 4.25-4.3" handle and a 3.75-4" blade and a solid orange G10 handle to make the stainless hardware pop. While you're at it with that nice blockey handle, you might consider subtlely shaping the tops of the scales in a slant by the ricasso so you're not just looking down at at a flat line where the scales start (on an overview shot).

Beautiful work I really like how you meet the lines of the edge and downward slop of the spine on that far right knife in the top pic. Comes off nice and centered from the handle. Lots of makers get that wrong by running the spine completely level, when really it needs a very gradual slope to it in order to meet that triangulation.

Anything else?

 

[Tony Mont]

Some progress pictures from the handle. This is straight from the grinder. Now it's time for some hand finishing.

 

[Tony Mont]

Aaaand it's done!

 

[Scaniaman]

AEB-L and Ultrex Ivory G10 droppoint appr 4" blade with nickel silver hardware.

 

[SwissHeritageCo]

AEB-L and Ultrex Ivory G10 droppoint appr 4" blade with nickel silver hardware.

Hard to beat those red fiber liners in terms of color. Air tight finish as always!

 

[Scaniaman]

Hard to beat those red fiber liners in terms of color. Air tight finish as always!

Thank you
G10 liners! Cherry red

 

[SwissHeritageCo]

Thank you
G10 liners! Cherry red

Had no idea they even made G10 liners that thin. The vibrant color surprises me, I thought that color red was relegated to fiber liners.

Good to know, thanks

 

[navman]

Oh yeah. I have liners down at .015 thick. (I think I had some at .010 at one time.)

 

[Seedy Lot]

T Taz turned me onto Current Composites and before I placed a custom micarta order I figured I would try one of their avaliable products. This handle is Libery Wood which is a birch phenolic layup. I really like it so far as it is easy to work and I think it looks pretty awsome.

 

[Case_D]

I'm quite happy with how this turned out. 26C3, osage orange, bronze pins. I started stamping my name and leaving some forged texture just behind the plunge line. I think I like this way best. I really like the way osage orange looks with copper or bronze and some forge texture. The whole piece will patina in one way or another

 

[Tony Mont]

The twins are done and photographed.

 

[D Bloch]

Probably the fanciest wood I've used in a wa handle, still needs final sanding and finishing though

 

[Glen Juntunen]

This Bowie is now ready for a nice sharpening.

 

[Michael Black]

I put a fresh edge and some new scales on a friend's old family heirloom cleaver. Fun stuff, this cleaver was badass! new scales are cocobolo with brass corbys.

 

[Michael Black]

I also just recently finished up this chef knife with a brass antiqued bolster which was all new to me. I like how it turned out!

 

[A.McPherson]

That's slick as heck Michael Black !

 

[Case_D]

I nearly made a mess of getting a good transition from blade to tang. Reducing 2in wide stock down for the tang is tricky

 

[Tony Mont]

Bob Loveless chute inspired knife, a proper pain in the butt to grind.

 

[Taz]

T Taz turned me onto Current Composites and before I placed a custom micarta order I figured I would try one of their avaliable products. This handle is Libery Wood which is a birch phenolic layup. I really like it so far as it is easy to work and I think it looks pretty awsome.

Looks sweet! I have some of their older Liberty Wood on my paring knife I use in the kitchen and it holds up great! The new stuff even passes the "boil test" where the grain doesn't raise. I have some in this color and green of the new stuff I need to use. It's a harder texture than DymaLux stuff and less splintery.

They make thin G10 liners in all sorts of colors. Yellow, toxic green, bright red, orange, the normal darker G10 red, etc. I used some of their Denim Blue Jean Micarta and it's really nice stuff, as is their burlap.