wrought back bowie

D lisch

D lisch

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As a new knife maker I have been trying to come up with something new so I made the wrought back bowie. my thoughts where that with wrought on the back it would be soft and with my damascus for the blade, it would look cool. I like my bowies to have that older look. It worked, but is it worth doing again? A friend of mine bought the knife. So two questions; have you seen this done before, and is it worth doing again. Soon I will have to put damascus on hold for a year while I make my JS test knives.
 

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Dave, As far as I know your the only one doing such a thing. I'm liking your older look! You should have no problem with the JS thing........
 
david....i like the look of it....a better picture would help but from what i can see it looks awsome.......so you make it sort of like a blade with a multi-bar damascus blade?......do u encounter anything different using the wrought iron on the top......ryan
 
ryan9977 said:
david....i like the look of it....a better picture would help but from what i can see it looks awsome.......so you make it sort of like a blade with a multi-bar damascus blade?......do u encounter anything different using the wrought iron on the top......ryan
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Ryan yes but not with the welding it took three try's to get the blade to not brake when quenching first two try's where with the salt pot so I did an edge quench that worked great. so I believe the different rate of contraction was making it crack.
 
Looks great to me. I would be interested to see how it would hold up under destruction testing (although I would cry to see such a pretty blade destroyed......maybe with a "competition" finished version.
 
No, I haven't seen it done before. It is so unique looking that I have to say that I think it is definitely worth doing.

That's a great looking knife.
 
Hey Dave,

Good job on that knife. Was that the one you won the award with?? You really need to get your JS done, still think you should do it this year!!!! If you put out quality like that in a mono steel you are in the running for the Peck award anyway even without the Hamons. In fact I can not remember if any of the Peck awards had anything spectacular other than great looking clean knives.

Chuck
 
I haven't seen it before, but I'm glad that I've seen it now. Nice work.

Roger
 
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