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Old 08-01-2008, 09:13 PM
EdgarFigaro EdgarFigaro is offline
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Ironwood Utility

Here's my latest completed.
Work bench is currently covered with blades, so if I stay at it I should be finishing up a few over the next bit.

Blade : Coil Spring (5160) - 3 3/8"
Guard and Pin : 416 Stainless.
Handle : Ironwood
Overall length : 7"

Blade was forged out a while back, fairly certain it's one I'd done from some coil spring.
It's fairly small...and ended up as more of a three finger utility knife or maybe a skinner.
First time to really use ironwood, I'd bought some small scales off ebay a while back and decided one of them would be great for this knife.
Had the great idea of using my router table I'd built not long ago to route out the mortise, worked great ont he oak scrap block. On the ironwood it just ripped the corner off. So I just clamped the scales together in my drillpress vise and drilled it out, which worked great. Little clean up with a chisel, also dovetailed the mortise slightly with the chisel as well to help glue hold.
All in all I'm happy with how it turned out. Just going to have to practice at getting a nice transition between the guard and handle material where your forefinger rests. Little more difficult with minimal tooling. Open to suggestions on how others do that part.

After heat treat I'd gone back over the blade on my sander with a belt to clean the blade up as well as tune the lines a bit more. Blade was nearly sharp after that and the hand sanding. Few licks on my whetstones and the #### thing is nice and quite sharp. Blade has a strong distal taper going as well.

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Photos hosted on photobucket, couple other pictures as well

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ood%20Utility/






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Old 08-03-2008, 09:15 AM
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Very nice little knife!


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Old 08-03-2008, 09:36 PM
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Thanks Tai


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Old 08-04-2008, 08:32 AM
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Cool! I like it.

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Old 08-04-2008, 11:43 PM
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Thanks Todd, got more in the works =]


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