A neck knife with Laburnum

[Stew]

Just finished this one.

The blade is by Aly and is 3mm thick O1. Blade length is 67mm and overall 156mm.

The handle is Laburnum with red liners.

You don't see laburnum used too often, which is a shame.

 

[Chainsaw]

ooo laburnum, nasty but nice! Like it, lovely looking wood!

Cheers,

Alan

 

[CLEM]

Thats a beauty

 

[hog]

I know the seeds are poisonous, what about the wood, thinking of the dust when sanding.

 

[Stew]

I know the seeds are poisonous, what about the wood, thinking of the dust when sanding.

I treat all dust as poisonous now! It may not harm me now but what about in 5, 10, 50 knives time? I always use my respirator.

 

[Shewie]

Very nice Stew, lovely clean lines

 

[Wilderbeast]

quite like that well done mate!

 

[Stew]

Two updates on this as I forgot to post about the sheath when I first made it.
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21/3/2010:

Well, the missus is out for the evening and the lad is in bed so I took advantage of the (eventual) quiet to knock a sheath up for the Aly blade I handled in Laburnum.

I've left it undyed as I'm going to try a Vinegaroon dip.

First time for everything!

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Today



Well, I got bored of waiting for the wire wool to dissolve in the vinegar. I suspect it was taking so long because I used White Wine vinegar - it's just what I had!

I did a quick test on some leather and it coloured up a bit so I thought what the heck and gave the sheath a good soaking.

I'll take better pictures tomorrow but I'm happy with the result!

 

[Wilderbeast]

very nice mate like that! good job!

 

[Nat]

Nasty wood, everything is poisonous on it i believe!

Cracking knife though

 

[Fredcompanybushcraft]

Very nice Stew!

 

[Stew]

Some better pictures:

 

[Jellytot]

Beautiful knife!
A nice size too, being a lady with little hands a lot of knives are just too cumbersome!
This looks a nice compact size.

 

[mclark]

looks like a cracking little knife mate

 

[maddave]

Hey Stew. Just a note on the thread to say the pics don't do this knife justice. What an awesome bit of kit and Jules is over the moon with it..... Thanks mate

 

[Stew]

Thanks Dave! I think it's a great design. It'll be very handy without being a 'weight' to carry around.

Hope it gets lots of use.