Another knife

[lonehunter]

Made this one for a very good friend!
Lignum Vitae slabs
brass pins
6 1/2 inch blade
4 1/2 inch handle
climbing vine all the way around
my version of a large skinner.

Thanks for looking :v

 

[pichou]

Lignum is amazing stuff. Takes a really good polish too.

 

Great job. I love the file work.

Weren't "skinners" a different profile? This looks like a "chef's knife".

 

[fatboy]

Thats real nice !! :thumbsup:

 

[AZ Muzzle]

That is a beautiful knife. Nice craftsmanship! :bow:

Mark B

 

[lonehunter]

Jack, its a short belt knife by about 2 inches, If i lived in the day and broke the tip off of my belt knife (wonder if that ever happened? :rotf It would be my new skinner, camp knife, all around cutting tool. :wink: Its the brass pins (fasteners) that make it look funky, would have been more pc with iron but dont trust the lignum not to crack or split with peened iron pins, the wood is way too oily to trust epoxy!
The wood is almost of the pieriod, it was a wood bearing in our towns first water plant, it was cut at least 104 years ago, it was installed in 1906 and removed sometime in the 50s or 60s cant remember.
Thanks to all for the kind words! :v

 

[Nifeman]

LH, a fine lookin' set up. What did you use for the blade? Ya done good on the filework too :thumbsup: ...Bud

 

[Ron Nance]

James, The sheath came out good. Not bad for your second try. :blah:

 

[lonehunter]

Thanks to you! :bow:
My first one looked like a banana that layed in the sun for a couple of weeks! :redface:

Bud, the blade is A2 tool steel. :v

 

[smo]

Very nice :thumbsup:

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

Another beauty. I like the file work also. :thumbsup:

 

[napolean]

Just curious, how did you treat that A2 tool steel?
Jon

 

[LRB]

I did the HT for him. Evenheat oven. Forced air quench.

 

[napolean]

Yep, The place I work once used AISI A2 for tooling, Air hardened to RC 60-62.
Jon

 

[Curtis Makamson]

That is some fine looking work.

 

[lonehunter]

Thanks guys! :v

 

[anvil1231]

:hatsoff: Very nice. Really like the file work