Koa Hunter...

[J. Doyle]

I finished this koa hunter up today, which is fitting as today is the opener of Michigan's firearm deer season.

This was forged from 1075 and has bronze and stainless fittings and a koa handle. Overall length is 8 1/2" with a 3 3/4" blade.

 

[bladegrinder]

Beautiful John, kinda hate to see deer blood get all over that one.

 

[Ty Adams]

Beautiful John, kinda hate to see deer blood get all over that one.

I would love to get deer blood all over that thing! Stunning....

 

[Sean Jones]

A beauty

 

[Von Gruff]

Every one of those pictures brings another level of awe at the fit, finish and overall detailed impressiveness of this knife.

 

[John Wilson]

I wish I had enough class to carry that knife.

 

[Johan Nel]

Beautiful John!

 

[Chris Railey]

I wish I had enough class to carry that knife.

Yeah, you pull that sucker out at a skining tree you better know your business. That thing is awesome.

 

[opaul]

Mr. Doyle your work sir is impeccable. Your photo skills are impressive as well, right down to the water drops.
Your work is at a bar I hope to someday achieve.

 

[Doug Lester]

Absolutely fantastic, John. I'd be afraid to take that hunting with me for fear I'd loose it.

Doug

 

[Smallshop]

Superb craftsmanship...and the photographic ability to showcase it. That is a lovely knife.

 

[Justin Presson]

Opaul used the word that first came to my mind impeccable !

 

[J. Doyle]

Thank you much gentlemen. I appreciate all the kind words.

I was pretty happy with the photos but I think I lucked out with the lighting. It was mid afternoon, cloudy with snow flurries and a bright white blanket of snow. I was under the eaves of the shop but some flurries still made it, hence the water droplets on a few.

I'm not bad at getting nice clear pics and representing the knife in a true, in-hand look, but there's a reason Coop, Chuck Ward, Buddy Thomason, Caleb Roger et al ...are professionals.

 

[Bruce McLeish]

To my very unsophisticated eye, I consider this knife to be as close to perfect as I could ever aspire to. I think I'll have a poster made up and put in my shop! (See the post about posters!)

 

[C Craft]

Knocked that one out of the ballpark John!

 

[Kevin Zito]

That’s beautiful... the details are so incredibly clean. You must wipe it clean and check after each and every pass with a file? I have tremendous respect for this level of precision and attention to detail.

 

[Rick Otts]

I love it great work!

 

[Dennis Morland]

I just got back from deer hunting. I would make that thing bloody, over and over again.

That knife is beautiful...

 

[Randy Lucius]

It’s hard to beat a nice piece of KOA and someone who knows what he’s doing and you certainly do John. Always enjoy seeing your work. Gives me a goal to shoot for.

 

[J. Doyle]

It’s hard to beat a nice piece of KOA and someone who knows what he’s doing and you certainly do John. Always enjoy seeing your work. Gives me a goal to shoot for.

I don't know that one would say that I know what I'm doing!

Every once in a while just enough goes RIGHT that I can get a knife finished.