Forged Woodswalking Knife

[Schwert]

I posted this knife and info up on British Blades a couple of days ago, so I apologize if this is redundant here. This project knife is truly exceptional and with the Woodswalking interest here I think you may want to see it.

I will leave the intro story etc from the British Blades post......

Over here, long, long ago one of the forums I used to participate in decided to do a project knife. Ultimately we choose to do a full-tang pattern and were fortunate enough to find a talented knifemaker to grind the blanks and heat treat them. Over the project development the maker also offered to do a forged varient. I was fortunate enough to get in line for both a stock removal version and a forged version. Just last week my forged one arrived.

Originally the forum members were going to put the scales on and sheath, but again and fortunately for me, one of the fellows in the group offered to place the scales on mine and another fellow made a sheath.

The three talented folks are:

Nick Wheeler, knifemaker
Jamie Knowlden, knife finisher
Jamie Briggs, sheathmaker

Each of these fellows did an amazing job on my knife.

I will let these images shot on my desk the day of arrival finish this thread.

Tapered tang, Forged O-1 by Nick, Contoured Redwood burl scales by Jamie, Coolest curved sheath I have ever seen by Jamie. This has to be the sharpest knife I have ever seen....

And a celebration pint or two at the local ale huset....what a project.

Dimensions (all done with ruler so not exact but close):

Overall: 21 cm

Blade: 10 cm to end of sharpened edge, 10.7 cm to scales

Blade width 2.5 cm at full point

Blade steel 5/32" (~3.5mm), O-1 tapered tang

Scales, Side view width at Center 2.7 cm (top to bottom)

Scales, Top view Width at Center 1.6 cm

Scales, Top view Minimum width 0.8 cm flaring out to 1.3 cm at front contour

Weight knife alone 139.3g

Weight with sheath and Swedish Military Firesteel 256.1g


more over time as I use this.......

 

[Adi007]

Nice! Very nice indeed. Thanks for sharing that with us! :-D

 

[Schwert]

Thanks Adi, I am still new to these 2 forums so have not got a complete feel for this sort of cross posting....no sense seeing everything twice....of course, I can look at this one all day without getting tired of it. :-D

 

[Adi007]

Thanks Adi, I am still new to these 2 forums so have not got a complete feel for this sort of cross posting....no sense seeing everything twice....of course, I can look at this one all day without getting tired of it. :-D

I wouldn't worry about cross posting between the two sites ... there is some crossover in membership but each site alos has a core of members that doesn't visit the other.

I didn't mind seeing them twice!

 

[The General]

I would probably drop the Woodlore (TM) from the description though, you might upset some people...

 

[sargey]

bleedin show offs :-?

that's still a sweet looking knife mate

cheers, and.

 

[Schwert]

Edited my title to be more correct anyway in addition to the TM concerns.

 

[Ed]

;-)

Ed

 

[The General]

Wise!

 

[MartiniDave]

Schwert,

That certainly is a very pretty looking knife! You're a lucky fellow indeed!

Dave

 

[Schwert]

I was able to give this knife a bit of a trial this last weekend. I had a small cherry tree die last summer and I cut it down this spring. I sliced off several of its branches and made a pile of fuzz sticks with the Woodswalker.

It really handled very well. The hand grip, the contours of the scales made this an easy knife to use. The blade grind really sliced thin strips with relatively minimal pressure. The knife was easy to control and use in these dry aged small wood pieces. I am starting to slightly convex the edge on a loaded leather strop.

I am going to peel the tree trunk for a walking stick later this year. I will drive a wooden grip onto the knife point and us this as a drawknife for that task.

The tree and me:

 

[tenbears10]

Nice to see what you look like at last Randy!! And love the knife, lots of people seem disappointed that they were a limited edition.

Bill

 

[Schwert]

Tenbears,

Keep your eyes open. Nick Wheeler is working on a site and he may be offering a knife along these lines in the near future. I think the interest coming from your side of the water has really surprised him. Once he has a site etc. I will make sure you all know.

Remember this was a kit knife project from another forum that I once belonged to. Missing out was easy....just had to be there at the right place at the right time. Many things happened over the course of this project....one being the delivery of some exceptional blades from some very talented contributors.

I have a stock removal due sometime soon...I am doing the handle this time, again with redwood burl, but with a high likelyhood of a total dustup. Fingers crossed.

 

[bushwacker bob]

I mentioned on BB that i really like this Knife,the news that similar ones may go into production has made my week! Schwert, You look uncanily like my late father! Its great to have an Idea of who I'm talking to tho'.