milkbaby
Well-Known Doofus
I'm in the waiting period for tung oil finish to dry on my latest knife, so I'm bored enough to post pics of my last one. :knife:
Western bunkabocho in 1084 carbon steel. About 160 mm blade, 280 mm total length. Full convex grind with right handed bias. Distal tapered: about 0.090" at the spine over the heel, 0.065" halfway to the tip, under 0.030" at the start of the k-tip. Heat treated and tempered to a guesstimated 60 HRc. Handle of natural black walnut, black palm bolsters, copper and black G10 spacers, copper pins and homemade mosaic pin of brass, aluminum, copper, and mystery metal. After taking the choil pic, I realized the handle was a bit asymmetric so I fixed that right away before finishing the handle oiling, LOL.
Custom burnt finish pine saya friction fit to the ricasso, but a custom saya pin for security too.
There are a lot of errors and finishing issues, but I'm learning a lot. Was happy with performance for how little experience I had making knives, brought it on vacation with friends to let them use and they MUCH preferred it over the knives at the house we rented together.
Thanks for looking! Cheers!
Western bunkabocho in 1084 carbon steel. About 160 mm blade, 280 mm total length. Full convex grind with right handed bias. Distal tapered: about 0.090" at the spine over the heel, 0.065" halfway to the tip, under 0.030" at the start of the k-tip. Heat treated and tempered to a guesstimated 60 HRc. Handle of natural black walnut, black palm bolsters, copper and black G10 spacers, copper pins and homemade mosaic pin of brass, aluminum, copper, and mystery metal. After taking the choil pic, I realized the handle was a bit asymmetric so I fixed that right away before finishing the handle oiling, LOL.
Custom burnt finish pine saya friction fit to the ricasso, but a custom saya pin for security too.
There are a lot of errors and finishing issues, but I'm learning a lot. Was happy with performance for how little experience I had making knives, brought it on vacation with friends to let them use and they MUCH preferred it over the knives at the house we rented together.
Thanks for looking! Cheers!