I wanted to get your take on this knife. A fella called and asked me if I could fashion a knife that would match his GRAYBARK recurve from a famous bowmaker. I was intrigued, and told him I would try.
I tried to obtain riser material...that didnt work. So I had to MAKE a riser block for a BW by cutting gray acgtionwood in slabs, adding in red and black spacers and epoxying it all back together..had to do it 3 times, to get it right. I put white material in the first two, but that was a bust since it would not stay clean when I was making the knife I knew over time it wouldnt stay clean when he was using it after a couple of seasons.
I tried to get red wood to build it with, and that was impractical since I had to buy 300 board feet of it...so I used something else.
Third times the charm I think. It also had to have a real heavy duty finish on it because of what I used to build it with...so I put a superglue finish on it....its got six coats in this photo...I'm adding four more. Then I will buff to a satin finish.
The rear of the scale appears white in the photo, I think thats the light coming off the superglue because its as gray as the rest of the handle.
I'm going to match it up with a solid black sheath.
What do you think? Does it replicate the BW enough?
Topic: a Missouri Arachnid knife, in progress (Read 1203 times)
