Just finished this one up. My 3rd knife.

[metal99]

Hey everyone, been a while since I got any work done. I finally had the chance to work on this one lase week and got it all done. This is my third knife.

O1 tool steel
OAL- 12-5/8"
Blade length is 8-3/8"
Black canvas micarta
Hollow stainless pins
My own hand made shieth.

 

[stabber]

Lookin good! Nice leather work Too

 

[Frank Hunter]

That's some extremely clean looking work, especially for a 3rd knife! Can't find anything to critique...I really like that design and execution.

 

[metal99]

Thanks for the kind words you guys it's such a fun hobby I just wish I had more time to work on them.

 

[Mike Martinez]

Very clean and well done. It looks like a 30th more than a 3rd. Excellent.

 

[rhinoknives]

Very nice work for a third knife.
The only hint is that is you cut some 400 Grit or finer paper in some long strips you can clean out the glue etc from the hollow handle pins.
Also counter sinking / Chamfering the hollow pins helps remove hot spot points.

Keep up the great work!

Laurence

www.rhinoknives.com
Laurence

 

[Sean Jones]

very nice. very nice indeed. I'm working on number three myself now.

 

[Lagrange]

That's a whole lotta steel there. It's only your third? Quite impressive work for number three. Looks like you got some skills there.

 

[graveyard]

yea yea seeing you only made 3 just send that to me & keep at it i wount tell any one ok

 

[metal99]

Darn! I was hoping nobody would notice the glue! That's all that I have left to do to this knife.

Thank you everybody for the nice complements, it really means a lot to me.

 

[TacticallySharp]

Great looking file work. Over all very clean for #3.

 

[Matt Bufford]

Man, your stuff is looking great! Good job!

 

[metal99]

Thanks everyone, I am happy with everything except the blueing but cold blueing sucks as it is and trying to do such a large knife makes things even harder. It's blotchy in the areas that I drew the temper on the spine so really there's nothing I could have done to make that part even. The customer was very happy with it and actually likes the way the blueing turned out.

How's the knife making world going with you Matt? Haven't talked to you in a while. I've been having a hard time getting much work done on my knives but its getting better as the weather gets worse. I have thirteen more "orders" to make so I will be busy for a good year or so.