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Offline Bladepeek

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Set of steak knives for my son
« on: June 24, 2014, 08:30:00 PM »
Well, several years ago my older son asked me for a knife and fork carving set. Since it took me so long to get around to it, he changed the order to a set of steak knives - all the blades the same, but each handle different. The blades all came from the same billet of Alabama Damascus.

Nearly done, except for some final clean up of the blades and a couple more coats of tung oil to one of the handles. There are two with giraffe bone, 1 buffalo horn, 2 maple and 1 walnut burl.

In retrospect, I should have made the rear pin larger in diameter so it would look more balanced. Oh well, by the time the steaks come out, he will probably have had a Jack Daniels or two and may never notice.

Also, I just noticed what looks like a temper line in that spalted maple knife. Nope. The blades were quenched vertically. That is a shadow from (probably) my camera body.

     

     

     

   
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Offline Fallguy

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2014, 09:52:00 PM »
Nice, those knives are going to require a 1 1/4 thick ribeye or porter house for there baptism.   :thumbsup:
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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2014, 11:44:00 PM »
Most-excellent work right there!

He will enjoy those blades.

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2014, 12:05:00 AM »
Those are beautiful. I would be proud to cary any one of them in the hunting field, let alone at the dinner table.

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2014, 01:16:00 AM »
Those are Purdy steak slicers. I like them all........tried to chose a favorite, but failed.   :D    :thumbsup:    
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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2014, 07:12:00 AM »
My LEAST favorite is the spalted maple handle in the bottom picture. The wood was sold as stabilized and the block had a heavy coating of some kind of resin on it.
When I cut it open, though, it was like balsa wood inside. I soaked the wood pieces overnight in some thinned sealer and then let it dry for a week. That's the one that still needs a few more coats of tung oil to fill the last of the voids on the surface.

I normally get all my stabilized wood from the same source and he has his blocks stabilized by K&G Finishing. They are always filled all the way through. I can't remember where I picked this one up, but I think it was at a table of a guy selling antlers at a gun show. I thought it seemed light!
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Offline bjansen

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2014, 07:16:00 AM »
Nice work!
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Offline Alexander13

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2014, 08:42:00 AM »
Beautiful set of knives!! Great work.
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Offline Lin Rhea

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2014, 11:53:00 AM »
He will treasure them I'm sure. Good work.
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Offline Kyle Lancaster

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2014, 01:38:00 PM »
Gorgeous!
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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2014, 07:42:00 PM »
Beautiful work. Put the steaks on!
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Offline Kevin Evans

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2014, 10:58:00 PM »
Very Nice
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Offline Steve Nuckels

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2014, 09:22:00 PM »
Ron, those are fantastic!

The profiles are great and I love each of the handle  materials you used!

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Offline Keith Zimmerman

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2014, 09:16:00 PM »
I love the maple knife!
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Offline ron w

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2014, 04:30:00 PM »
I saw these at Compton.......they are really nice!!
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Offline 2treks

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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2014, 06:19:00 AM »
Nice job Ron
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Re: Set of steak knives for my son
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2014, 08:18:00 AM »
Beautiful work !
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