A knife with a bit of a story to it.
The handle material is Maple Burl. Given to me by a guitar maker and accomplished musician who is one of my close neighbors. Once a husband of a well known Nashville female star now living the quite life along a remote river in northern Minnesota. On one of his escapades to locate some material for a new guitar build, he came across a maple burl. He gave it to me last year and I cut it up and had some of it stabilized.
The eyes of the burl are on top.
I made the guard from the first billet I've ever heard of from this material - wrought iron and 15N20 mix. I wanted to add some character to the wrought and just give it a different look.
Which, by the way, is more dramatic in the real world.
The blade was forged from a 1 1/8" round bar of W1 and given a differential hardening with clay, resulting in the hamon.
Notice my little "guest" at the top of the hamon. I was literally taking these photos outside amongst a SWARM!! of mosquitoes. Bad enough that I almost quit trying to get photos.
Topic: 'Nother pack-type knife (Read 1053 times)
