Bushfire!!!!

[Razorstrop]

Heres my baby!

Theres a bit of a review on BB here
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16062

oh and more of my dreadful photos
its my pride and joy so feel free to comment

Mr Strop

 

[Topcat02]

Give us some details, is it a bought knife, handmade, or did you do any work yourself. Very nice effort nonetheless.

 

[RovingArcher]

I'm a sucker for a sweet looking blade. Nice work on that one.

 

[Razorstrop]

Its a custom job, Shing blade, handle by Dave Barker, sheath by Tiffers ( all from BB).

It really is a piece of work!!!

Mr Strop

 

[outdoorcode]

Very nice indeed Gary, Tiffers/Shing/Dave have done themselfes proud on that one

 

[bikething]

Having seen the knife "in the flesh" I can confirm that Garry's photos are, indeed, dreadfull and do not do the knife justice !!!!

 

[redcollective]

The colours on those scales are amazing. Look after it Mr Strop.

 

[Dave Barker]

The colours on those scales are amazing. Look after it Mr Strop.

Thanks for the comments.

The scales are basically curly birch that have a mixture of water based and spirit based dyes baked into the wood, before being sanded back to achieve the result you see.

in total there are around 30 layers of dye on this knife, all lovingly mixed together in quantities to achieve the result.

The grain on the wood is specially selected so that the dyes stay where they should and this pattern can be repeated mopre or less time after time

( Although stroppy bought this one on the condition that is was a unique pattern never to be repeated... pains of death and a comment like." And i'll show you just how sharp the blade is" kind of made me agree.)

Almost all colours can be mixed providing there is a contrast between them.

 

[Razorstrop]

And I had such a good repuatation on here , thanks Dave :twak:
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