Matched father and son pair in progress - my 3rd and 4th completed knife

[Gdpolk]

These are for one of my best friends and his son.  It's Elmax steel, ivory G10 liners, and arizona desert ironwood handles cut from the same board.  Later on I'll do two larger full flat grind knives to match these that will also come from the same ADI board.  These still have a little bit of finish work left, sharpening, and sheaths but it looks like it'll make a fine pair for them.  These are my 3rd and 4th knives I've made.

 
 

[Izzy]

Wow!!! Very, very nice.

[92Fspc4]

Nice.  Love the handles.  Are you heat treating the elmax yourself?

[Gdpolk]

Originally posted by 92Fspc4:
Nice.  Love the handles.  Are you heat treating the elmax yourself?

Peters did the HT on these at 61hrc. These were the last two of my first batch.  My mentors shop doesn't have a kiln so I had to send these out. I'll pick up an oven sometime this year to start running my own HT. That's the only operation step that was outsourced.

[Bodork]

Nice job! That ironwood is beautiful!

[just_a_hunter]

Nice!

Todd

[Keith Zimmerman]

Imagine matching limb veneers....

[Gdpolk]

Originally posted by Keith Zimmerman:
Imagine matching limb veneers....

I've thought about getting a similar chunk of ironwood and sending it off to a bowyer for a riser and making some matching knives to it like a larger camp knife and smaller skinning knife pair.

[TrackerNy]

Nice work. Love that ironwood.