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Hello All
A First for Me!
Normally, I might have posted pics of a new knife in the Display Case, but since this is my first hidden tang, after hundreds of knives and nine years of knifemaking, I figured I was a newbie at this style and so here I am. The blade is differentially heat treated 1080 in a classic Nessmuk profile, etched to reveal the hamon. The handle is white tale antler tip, and the hardware is old-school brass (seemed appropriate). I dislike soldering, so I used the old JB trick to seal the tang/guard junction. The process felt odd, but was actually easier and faster than a typical full tang build. So much of this knife is alien to me that it hardly looks like my work. I almost never do guards, brass anything, flat grinds, antler (even scales), squared off ricassos, etc. The sheath is forthcoming. This knife's future is uncertain. |
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Welcome. It might take a while for you to be able to post picks but the description sounds interesting.
Doug __________________ If you're not making mistakes then you're not trying hard enough |
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Welcome! If you have offsite photo hosting you can post image links to those pictures.
__________________ Mike |
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