wooden sheath

[clancy]

I forged knife out of 52100 roller bearing. And made the sheath from select spalted maple firewood. It was stabilized with epoxy and a vacuum impregnation process.

 

[Sean Cochran]

Spalted maple firewood??!!
Send it to me for disposal.

Nice looking piece.

Sean

 

[clancy]

I burned a logging truck load of it last winter. Much of it was too far gone, it burns like cardboard when dry. I did manage to set aside a couple of small chunks for handles.

Years ago Jim Schmidt gave me some chunks of his firewood (birds eye maple), he never used it for his knives.

When you heat with wood it pays to look for interesting patterns while splitting.

ernie

 

[JAWilliams]

WOW!!! That looks great.

 

[stabber]

Nice Job Ernie2thumbs

 

[BruceM]

Good job on the knife and sheath Ernie!

 

[Brian Thie]

When you heat with wood it pays to look for interesting patterns while splitting.

ernie

I do that around the community fire when we go camping. The looks I get when I say to someone "you are not going to burn that are you" is priceless.

Brian