Wife's birthday knife!

[Lorien]

Just completed this knife for my wife's birthday.

Native yew handle with tung finish, stainless steel pin and titanium ferrule. AEB-L blade

More photos can be found in my subforum HERE

 

[Survivalistd]

Wonderful birthday present

 

[luethge]

That is a beautiful and bad ass knife.

 

[3fifty7]

Excellence

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Very cool.

 

[mitch13]

That turned out very nice indeed.

 

[Lorien]

Thank you all! She really liked it, so that made me happy.

The laser marking of the hummingbirds, (I drew those up specifically for this project) didn't work out that great, but the guy who did the work is still learning and I'm just grateful that there's someone nearby who's willing to do it. I looked into desktop lasers, and what I need is well outside my budget, but I found out all sorts of helpful information during my research which I can pass on to him and improve future work. That's the only part that I outsourced for this. This knife is my first in AEB-L and I was expecting it to warp in heat treatment really bad, but it did not warp at all. So...I guess the short story here is that I prefer a slightly botched etching instead of an AEB-L taco

 

[jfk1110]

Neat.... Great job!!

 

[Sean Yaw]

Thank you all! She really liked it, so that made me happy.

The laser marking of the hummingbirds, (I drew those up specifically for this project) didn't work out that great, but the guy who did the work is still learning and I'm just grateful that there's someone nearby who's willing to do it. I looked into desktop lasers, and what I need is well outside my budget, but I found out all sorts of helpful information during my research which I can pass on to him and improve future work. That's the only part that I outsourced for this. This knife is my first in AEB-L and I was expecting it to warp in heat treatment really bad, but it did not warp at all. So...I guess the short story here is that I prefer a slightly botched etching instead of an AEB-L taco

I'd say the etching looks pretty darn good from where I'm sitting.

 

[RayseM]

Sweet !

 

[Dusty One]

Very Nice !!

 

[scdub]

I'd say the etching looks pretty darn good from where I'm sitting.

Same - wouldn’t have given it another thought if you didn’t say it had a problem. Great looking knife.

 

[Lorien]

thank you all very much!

here are the original drawings;

 

[Bigfattyt]

Well, that turned out lovely.

Really like the makers mark and the humming bird!!

 

[Lorien]

Well, that turned out lovely.

Really like the makers mark and the humming bird!!

me too, I'm thinking I might make that the standard for cooking knives