Fifth overall

[Johan Nel]

This is my fifth knife that I have finished to date and one of my own design, although it will hardly be unique in shape. I will be making more of them, with some tweaks. I like the design.
I seem to be extremely slow in the process of making knives, it took me six months from start to finish. This was my first knife done on a grinder, all blades previously made was by hand filing with a jig.

Basic details:

1. Steel is 5160, 6mm thick;
2. Overall lenght is 25cm;
3. Blade is almost 13cm & the handle is slightly longer than 12cm;
4. Flat grind;
5. Scales are coloured hessian in resin and 0.8mm black G10 liners with 4mm brass pins;
6. The blade was darkened with ferric to assist against rust as 5160 seems highly susceptable to 'iron lice' in our neck of the woods
7. I am by no means proficient in working with leather. I kinda winged on the process of making the sheath, but it came out nice enough. Still lot to learn on that, but I do enjoy working with leather.

 

[Sean Jones]

That turned out really nice! Excellent work. I wish my 7th knife looked as nice as your 5th.

 

[Johan Nel]

That turned out really nice! Excellent work. I wish my 7th knife looked as nice as your 5th.

Thanks Sean!
I seem to lose some detail when resizing the photos in order to upload them. They seem more grainy. Here is one more to give some detail on the liners.

 

[BossDog]

nice job.
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[Heikki]

Nice shape and I really like your choice of handle materials. Well done!

 

[soundmind]

Looks great Johan!

 

[Doug Lester]

Nice job on the knife. I do have to admit that I'm attracted to the look of Hessian Micarta.

Doug

 

[Johan Nel]

Thanks for all the comments, I appreciate it. I like the Hessian or burlap as well, Doug. The material that I used in this build was bought from a local knife maker that specializes in folders. I want to try my hand at making some myself. We are just limited in the choice of resins or epoxy here in South Africa, but I'll give it a go and see how it goes.

 

[Chris Railey]

That knife is great Johan. I really like the handle. Waaaaaaay better than my sixth knife.

 

[Smallshop]

Very nice!

 

[C Craft]

Real nice, much better than my fifth knife!!

When photographing pick a one color background that compliments the knife. Or at least something that is not real busy!! I like outside photos when I can!!

 

[Gene Kimmi]

That one came out really nice!

 

[Johan Nel]

Real nice, much better than my fifth knife!!

When photographing pick a one color background that compliments the knife. Or at least something that is not real busy!! I like outside photos when I can!!

Thanks for the advice on the photographing C Craft. I will keep that in mind when next I take photos.

 

[Chris623]

Good lookin' knife. Ya done well, I'd reckon!

 

[Dennis Morland]

Very nice knife. I would never have guessed it is only your fifth knife.

 

[Rick Otts]

Very nice!

 

[Jason Volkert]

Lookin good!

 

[Owl]

Looks terrific!
I really like the handle colors.