Scrap Damascus Dagger

[Gene Kimmi]

Here's a dagger I recently finished. 7 1/2" blade, 12 3/4" overall. The blade and guard are out of a canister of scraps/end cuts of damascus and 1084 powder.
The handle is a piece of Ironwood burl, museum fit to the guard.

 

[KenH]

That is impressive. While I like a good Bowie, it seems I do have a preference for daggers. A high level of skill is required to get the grind right on a dagger, and you did.

 

[Doug Lester]

I love the randomness of the blade steel. The guard and the handle fit right into it. Great job.

Doug

 

[jmforge]

Cool. Now related to my rece4nt crotchety old man post about garbage steelo, I would argue that you did not make this from "scrap" but form "drops" because it was leftover odd sized peices of stell that you had forge welded. So you know exactly what its makeup is. Scrapmascus is a kind of cool sounding name, though.