14 June 2006

a custom knife for a buddy

This one was made for a friend and team partner at work. He wanted a slightly longer blade, with finger grooving. We made a tracing of his hand before I started, and also generated an Autocad drawing of the blade. The handle is curly black walnut with stainless steel Corby rivets. The blade is hollow ground 440C, and has cryogenic treatment. The blade design is a "semi-full" tang, in that I split the tang down the middle. This way the finger grooves are all wood, and the rest of the tang is exposed in the back. Notice I didn't use a logo. I simply ran out of room. I also made a matching guthook skinner to go with this one.

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