Little 3-piece hunter...

[J. Doyle]

I just finished up this little three piece hunter. Well....actually its 16 pieces total.

3 1/2" blade of 15n20 & 1084 pinstripe Damascus. Checkered koa scales. Gold screws. 7 3/4" overall

Any and all comments and discussion welcome.

 

[Dennis Morland]

Simplicity at its finest.

 

[Chris Railey]

Holy crap that checkering looks good John. I call that pattern OCD Damascus because all of the lines are nice and orderly like they should be...

 

[Sean Jones]

I don't believe I've seen pin-stripe Damascus before. Beautiful work!

 

[Randy Lucius]

I don't believe I've seen pin-stripe Damascus before. Beautiful work!

Makes me think of the NY Yankees. I guess I've been watching too much baseball. Always enjoying seeing your work Mr. Doyle and that's a beauty!!

 

[Gene Kimmi]

Beautiful piece, John. Are the scales museum/heirloom fit to the tang?

 

[Daniel Macina]

Very nice! I was actually thinking of a way I could make a Damascus pattern similar to that the other day.

 

[Von Gruff]

More levels of like in that one than the stripes in the blade.

 

[Chris Railey]

museum/heirloom fit to the tang?

I have to ask what that means.

 

[J. Doyle]

Beautiful piece, John. Are the scales museum/heirloom fit to the tang?

Hi Gene. Yes they are museum fit. Good eye!

 

[J. Doyle]

I have to ask what that means.

It means that the scales are left intentionally proud of the tang all the way around.

 

[J. Doyle]

Thanks for the comments everyone. I appreciate it.

 

[Kevin Zito]

Gorgeous! I love how the clip shows a different perspective of the pattern. Everything is so crisp and clean! Perfection.

A man who pays that much attention to detail does not miscount the number of pieces nor does said man include unnecessary/irrelevant pieces in his work. Scales, blade, screws, and I’m assuming 3 sleeves (not sure what they’re called, but something for each screw to go in) comes out to 12 pieces. So here are my bets...
1) he told us 16 pieces in this post for a reason
2) the 4 missing pieces are critical in this build
3) the 4 pieces ain’t easy to make or install.

I’m curious.

 

[Jason Volkert]

Masterfully done @J. Doyle

 

[Jason Volkert]

Damn you Kevin now you got me wondering where those 4 other pieces are

 

[J. Doyle]

Gorgeous! I love how the clip shows a different perspective of the pattern. Everything is so crisp and clean! Perfection.

A man who pays that much attention to detail does not miscount the number of pieces nor does said man include unnecessary/irrelevant pieces in his work. Scales, blade, screws, and I’m assuming 3 sleeves (not sure what they’re called, but something for each screw to go in) comes out to 12 pieces. So here are my bets...
1) he told us 16 pieces in this post for a reason
2) the 4 missing pieces are critical in this build
3) the 4 pieces ain’t easy to make or install.

I’m curious.

Haha.....man, you crack me up. I love your posts.

Those 4 pieces are key to this whole build style.

 

[Chris Railey]

It means that the scales are left intentionally proud of the tang all the way around.

I see it now...learn something new all the time.

 

[J. Doyle]

Very nice! I was actually thinking of a way I could make a Damascus pattern similar to that the other day.

Fortunately this is about as easy of a pattern as you can do.

This blade was literally a cube of scrap off the floor that was a cutoff of the end of another billet. I just didn't want to waste it.

 

[bladegrinder]

That is one clean, sharp looking knife John !

 

[tkroenlein]

I'm going to guess 4 hidden pins that fit tightly.

It's simple and awesome. I just scraped everything off my bench into the trash and am starting all over.