Brut de Camp

[kbaknife]

Something I've been playing with for a while is the creation of a knife utilizing a great deal of forging skills, heat treating skills with decent quality tool steel, and assembly creativity all rolled up into one, and still ending up with a knife built for hard use and minimal care.
So, here we have, the "Brut de Camp".
Forged from large stock W2, given a clay treatment in the heat treating for a spectacular hamon, a Brut de Forge style full tang blade with polished spine, etched hamon and scaled finish on the flats, and topped off with re-cycled tire handle material that has seemingly never-ending grip.
I will finish off this package with a Kydex sheath.
 

 

 

[2treks]

Very cool Karl. It just beckons me to chop something.Alot of somethings.
Tire for a knife handle eh? sounds cool to me.
Well done,I really like it.

CTT

[kbaknife]

Not tire - recycled tire.
It's ground up tire that's been re-formed into flat sheets.

[2treks]

Oh I see, Feels good and grippy eh? Do you glue it down? or just pin it?
Great looking knife Karl.

Chuck

[Lin Rhea]

That's a handsome brute!

[joekeith]

WOW..........................whatta hamon.  

[GWV]

That is a nice one!

[akaboomer]

I agree "handsome brute" and great Hammon

Chris