Travis Fry
Well-Known Member
I just finished this one up last week, and wanted to let y'all see it. What I've always called the Smithwick is my earliest and most worked over design - I frequently tweak the pattern, and this is probably version 15 or so (I haven't really tracked it). Anyway, this one is 440C with interior mammoth. The slightly dovetailed bolsters are 416 and the domed pins are nickel silver. I have a lot of respect for anyone who domes pins; pins on this one required a couple of hours in a 4x Optivisor and what seemed like a million light taps with a little bitty mirror polished hammer. I went a little outside my usual box on the sheath too.
