Never Again but no regrets

[redcollective]

Finishing this one off today on my day off work. Thuya burl scales. I'll never use thuya again - it's lovely wood but a bugger to sand - everything clogs up so I was continuously cleaning my sandpaper to avoid using too much. The knife is also very heavy in final form. If I wanted to do this again I'd seriously consider drilling the tang to lighten it up and using a different wood. Ground of a little here and there on the blade to suit my whims. I don't know what kind of knife it'll be in use - quite tiring at first I expect, as my usual camp knife is a very light stick tang scandi.

F1 blade

 

[ScottC]

That is absolutely gorgeous, well done!!!

 

[scanker]

It looks great though - well done. Is it an F1 blade?

Good to see you're better at handling knives than you are at flintknapping, or were you sat in your workshop on a low stool surrounded by an ever growing mass of sawdust and wood chips!

 

[redcollective]

Yes that's an F1 blade with a bit of grinding here and there

 

[penvisser]

very nice knife ! I recently have made a knife with thuyaburl scales, what a smell when sanding the handle! I had a headache after finishing the knifes for two days.

Will post the pic when my camera is back, i left it at work....

 

[CLEM]

Very handsome knife that!

 

[beowolf762]

Nice work. Your knives are some of my favorites.
Cheers

 

[leon-1]

Nice knife

 

[pteron]

Wow Stu, that looks beautiful.

 

[swyn]

Well done, I'm impressed!
Swyn.

 

[OzaawaaMigiziNini]

Beautiful job my friend, how well does she work in the bush?

 

[Diamond Dave]

Well worth all the trouble. A loverly piece.

 

[redcollective]

Thankyou - I think next time I will go for a thinner handle , as this one is distinctly chunky - but not overly so (a bit like my good self LOL). I've been wondering what almost flat scales of only 3 or 4 mm might be like. Anyone done something similar?

Dont know what the knife will be like in the woods, but I look forward to the weekend when I'll try it, however in my basement in between breaks making a sheath for it - it's making a real mess of some fence palings - the weight seems to add controllability under heavy cutting - I think it would be next to useless for whittling, but as a general utility it should serve well (which is what i thought the fallniven f1 was designed as). I hope the handle holds up under use. I worried about the pins as its basically a tight interference fit (I didn't pien these ones) and lots of epoxy - hopefully some of that epoxy stayed in the holes when I tapped the [ins through. Plenty of eopxy on the scales though so it should hold up. I took heart from the demo at the bush moot where Chris C said the pins resist shearing forces in the handle and the epoxy should hold it together (at least I hope that's the advice i remembered! Oh well if it doesn't I learn!

 

[Jon Mawer]

Sweet! The f1 is one of the things that is top of my bushcraft "must buy" list, and that makes it look soooo nice.