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Just picked this one up from Alice Carter.
Blacklip pearl w/ gold shield and pins, Damasteel blade and spring. 416 integral liners and bolsters
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Got this kitchen knife done for the show this weekend. Dragon Skin Damascus by Delbert Ealy with ringed Gidgee/ebony wa handle. Hard to get a good shot of the pattern in the dining room light. I sand to 400 grit and then use a Scotch-Bright belt for a vertical texture finish. Then I buff well to make the nickel shine and leave just a trace of te brush finish to make the scaled look. The vertical brush lines are not nearly as obvious as the blown-up photo makes it look.
Also finished another bearded throwing hawk for the show. I call it the All American Axe. This one throws like a dart at 11 feet.
I'm taking about twenty throwers from 12" to 30" to the show. After the show I'll put some in The Exchange.

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it's tough for me to not attend to all the little details, so I'm proud of myself for letting this knife go- scabs and all. Still has layout lines! It's going to a friend, and although he deserves a nicely finished knife, I want him to use this one without fear of fucking it up. I got it finished up yesterday.
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Got the stone removed, not likely to the smoky quartz (but doesn’t behave like plastic or acrylic either). Possibly citrine quartz-maybe-TBD.

Smoky quartz, citrine are both quartz, just different hues it seems.
“Cairngorms” are from a specific place (based on the always accurate ‘net 🙄).
Bottom line-there will be a shiny, rock-like object in the pommel.
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The Cairngorms are mountains in the highlands of Scotland.
Cairngorm is the stone of Scotland. It is Smoky Quartz. It was found in a fair abundance in the Cairngorms, thus the local name.
Citrine is yellow quartz. You often see citrine used as cairngorm in tourist and online Scottish jewelry and broaches. In the modern world no one really cares but the purists.

If you have a jeweler/gem friend with a refractometer he can identify it easily.
 
Blade Show tickets purchased! Anyone else going this year?
 
DanF said:
Got the stone removed, not likely to the smoky quartz (but doesn’t behave like plastic or acrylic either). Possibly citrine quartz-maybe-TBD.

Smoky quartz, citrine are both quartz, just different hues it seems.
“Cairngorms” are from a specific place (based on the always accurate ‘net 🙄).
Bottom line-there will be a shiny, rock-like object in the pommel.
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I ordered some smoky quartz from Gemselect for a project that I need to get back to.
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But...I will be bringing Eagle Rare Bourbon...
 
Lorien said:
it's tough for me to not attend to all the little details, so I'm proud of myself for letting this knife go- scabs and all. Still has layout lines! It's going to a friend, and although he deserves a nicely finished knife, I want him to use this one without fear of fucking it up. I got it finished up yesterday.
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Your leatherwork is equally amazing.
 
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