Forged 5160, Stag and Red Coral

03 March 2010, 01:16

Oh great, I want to show off my recent work and find the Bergh masterpiece posted below.

Anyway, this was forged from a Mustang rear spring. I tried to echo classic mid-century American designs in the handle
·5160 blade
·416 stainless guard
·Nickel silver and black fiber spacers
·Red coral and sambar stag handle
·7075 aluminium butt
·Lizard skin inlay on the sheath

Thanks for looking

03 March 2010, 01:24

John Frederick

Very nice.

03 March 2010, 08:58

Use Enough Gun

Beautiful knife and sheath. Congratulations.

03 March 2010, 16:21

D Humbarger

Very nice work Yeti. I really like how the sheath holds the knife very secure. you do the leather work too?

03 March 2010, 23:27

calgarychef1

Nice job!!!

04 March 2010, 01:11

yeti

Thanks guys!
Doug, I do the leatherwork too. A standard design hold down strap would have messed up the inlay.

04 March 2010, 12:14

Gatogordo

Really nice work on the handle and the knife but, I might as well be honest, your handle work does not really match the handmade rough forged appearance of the blade. I think you'd have had a better looking and matching end product if you had finished the blade and ricasso to something on the order of Marble standards. That blade would be more at home with some kind of slab or similar handle, more like the mid 19th century, not the mid 20th. I'm not knocking this knife, just being honest on the combination. You obviously have the talent to make a very nice knife and I congratulate you.

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04 March 2010, 16:17

yeti

Gat,
You're absolutely right - there's a timeline mismatch in the knife...not to mention the pimped out lizard inlay sheath.

It's more of jazz solo than piano recital. But your comment is well deserved, and I appreciate the real deal - I know not all improv works for everyone, and some of it doesn't work a-tall.

31 October 2010, 21:15

Lord Frith

quote:
Originally posted by Gatogordo:
Really nice work on the handle and the knife but, I might as well be honest, your handle work does not really match the handmade rough forged appearance of the blade. I think you'd have had a better looking and matching end product if you had finished the blade and ricasso to something on the order of Marble standards. That blade would be more at home with some kind of slab or similar handle, more like the mid 19th century, not the mid 20th. I'm not knocking this knife, just being honest on the combination. You obviously have the talent to make a very nice knife and I congratulate you.

IIRC, back in my artsy days in undergraduate school, hearing of Japanese artisans purposefully disfiguring, to a small degree, with a fingernail or finger, an otherwise perfectly thrown pot to maintain an earthy connection.

Very pleasant knife to view. I was not disturbed by the roughness of part of the blade. To me, it showed the hand of man in the process, a rather nice juxtaposition with the handle and, I will agree, pimped sheath. Keep up the good work. Oh, any particular reason for using a Mustang spring, than it was there?

Thanks,

Stephen