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Carved blackwood and bronze hunter
Here's another hunter for my show next weekend. This one, I think, was cursed from the beginning. While polishing the blade, I laid my finger wide open and had to get 6 stitches. Then I went to put a buckeye burl handle on, got it all fit and shaped and found a huge bark inclusion in the handle that made it unusable. I changed that to an ironwood handle, got it all fit and shaped and during final polish, I split the handle completely in half. So I went to my old standby.........blackwood and tried it a third time. One could draw the conclusion that I might not know what I'm doing...........and they would be right. Maybe I just should have started with blackwood in the first place.
Anyway, the specs: Hand forged from 1075 steel, clay quenched 8 1/4" overall, 3 1/2" sharp, .195" thick at the ricasso Nice distal taper Heavily rounded spine and ricasso edge for comfort Bronze guard and fittings Blued and coined spacer African blackwood handle, carved and textured with line cut rings All comments and discussion welcome. __________________ John Doyle You have nothing to fear but fear itself...........and bears. |
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Apparently the blade wanted Blackwood for pants and not the others...? Sorry to hear it was such a pain (literally) to get finished, but it sure does look nice, John. Hope the show goes well for you-travel safe.
Jeremy |
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