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Beautiful! I like them.

Thanks for all the compliments and thanks to Mark for giving me a chance to make him this knife.

A little more rustic Taurus 12. The O1 blade is sanded to 800 and etched in ferricchloride. Brown micarta handle. Hope you like it!

The final pics...... The knife is completed and sharpened and the sheath only needs a bit if leathergrease. It will be shipped early this week. I hope Mark likes it. I want to thank you all for your nice comments and especially Mark for asking me to make him this knife. And my famous...

Carefully filing down the pin. Again sanding up to 1200 using the oil.

Time to glue it up. I degreased the tang, pin and front of the handle. Normally I do this in the shop but it is far too cold there to the epoxy any good. The clamp is not really there to press the handle and blade together but more so i can hold it to do the clean up with WD40 and a bamboo stick.

A Taurus 12 of 300 layers damascus, 75ni8 and O2. Black micarta handle. Welcome to the darkside! Hope you like it!

Getting ready for etching. A tube of ferric chloride, Vim for degreasing windex for neutralizing, WD40 for rubbing off the oxides and gunoil for protection of the etch. Vice grips for holding the blade in the tube and not dopping it on the bottom or through the bottom..... The Vim is the best...

For rounding the butt end of the handle I put a piece of tape around it as a guide. Started sanding with the mistery oil. Anything that is off will get corrected at this point. Sanded to 1200 while using the oil. Another advantage of sanding with the oil is that the paper keeps...

Blade sanded to 1200. It looks nice as it is, not sure if I want to etch it......

Blade sanded to 800. Logo is next. I put a strong light under the blade so I can see where to put the stencil. It takes the guessing out of it. Stencil from Ernie Grospitch. I use a batterycharger and a Q-tip and a bit of salted water. Stuff used to do the etch. Next is sanding to 1200...

Overall vieuw with it's little brother wich I am making for myself. Now comes finish sanding. I use a piece of plastic tube because it fits the transition to the bolster and it sands faster. I do not have to readjust the paper everytime, I just turn the tube a little while sanding. It also...

Handle sanded to 400. I do not like highly polished handles so I use an oil I got from a dutch knife maker that really pops the grain and fills any voids or checks in the wood with the oil and sandingdust. You can see the first layer of tape coming off. Handle at 800 grit with the magic oil...

Getting ready to grind the handle close to the maskingtape. I have split a 220 belt to about 3/4" to get into the tight curves of the handle. Make sure to break the edges of the split belt so they do not dig into handle. Handle roughly shaped. Hand sanding to the maskingtape with 120...

To make the handle to it's final shape I like to have a small step between the handle and the bolster. I do this by cutting a narrow strip of masking tape and wrap that around the bolster. I grind close to the maskingtape and do the rest by hand until the fourth layer of tape starts coming off...

Both flats finished to 600 grit. Cleaned up the swedge with a Diafold and put some marker on it so when I sand the flats one more time I can see if I have a nice flowing line. Cleaning up the bolster with a 600 Diafold. Finishing the choil with an EDM stone. Before finishsanding to...

This one is 600 and 900 grit. I use the 600 for flattening but it needs to be fairley flat to start with or I will use a coarser one.

Here is the block ground to profile and the lines for the contour scribed. Roughly ground to shape. With the template I use for these knives. The corners knocked off and roughly shaped. I make sure i keep the centerlines on top and bottom so it is easier to keep things symetrical...

The block fitted against the bolster, the contour of the handle scribed and ready to drill the pinhole. The blades painted in antiscale compound and my HT oven heating up. Quenchoil heating up. This is Durixol 25W wich is a professional HT oil, I have been using it for almost a year now...

The blade with the beautiful stabilised Redwood burl block provided by Mark. Drilling the pilothole. Getting there... Sawed off the angle for the bolster with not much fitting left to do.