Just finished this blade up this morning. Forged from W1 steel, fileworked spine, black g-10 fluted collars, stippled bronze accent band and a really beautiful stabilized buckeye burl handle.
Fantastic, as always. The stippled collar spacer is a nice touch. I always like seeing your coined spacers but the stippled effect is a cool new addition. The rope filework on the spine is super clean. Getting both swedge bevels perfect and evenly rounded so that the filework tapers evenly down the center shows fantastic execution.
Hope you don’t mind me asking but do you have any tips on that ribbon file work? I generally don’t like firework but man I absolutely love that. All the tutorials I look at looks nothing like that.
Just finished this blade up this morning. Forged from W1 steel, fileworked spine, black g-10 fluted collars, stippled bronze accent band and a really beautiful stabilized buckeye burl handle.
You know that feeling when you stare into a fire or into the stars and lose yourself in it for a short time?! It’s like that! I want a poster of that knife
Those last two photos do it for me. Incredible filework, and then the final closeup of the end of the handle. Both just gorgeous. Since this was stabilized wood, may I ask if the finish is just sanding, some buffing and then wax? If not, would you share that info?