New Knife

[nolightweight]

Afternoon folks...

Chad (sasquatch of this Parish) very recently took my knife collection up to three with this very handy offering:

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3mm O1 steel, home made micarta scales (from some old lightweight combats), black liners, aluminium pins through a full tang.

Overall length of 225mm, just over 105mm of that is cutting edge. Forced patina using mustard. These pics do not do the knife any justice at all.

Collected from the June North Wood meet, sharper than a very sharp thing, unpolished handle is very grippy and extremely comfortable in my hand. Not got any photos of it in use (yet) but it does the job well and a user, not a display piece. The devil is in the detail, Chad stamped the back of the sheath with a maple leaf (Canadians, eh?) and etched "git er done!" on the face of the blade seen above. It will be so, mate....

As most on here will attest, I'm not a knifey type, but I am one very happy Ewok with this one.

I'm sure Chad will add any other info when he sees this thread.

Thanks for looking, but many many thanks to a great buddy who made it for me.

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[Johnnyboy1971]

Wooohooo NLW has a new knife and i have to say its a beauty. Really well made and fits the hand a dream.
Hope it serves you well for many a year mate.

 

[Dannytsg]

Very nice work there.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Lovely knife there, great work.

 

[sandbender]

ooo that looks lovely.

 

[Barn Owl]

A rather braw tool you have there Neil.

 

[bdshim]

looks very nice, handle looks good and grippy

 

[shaggystu]

very nice mate, i bet you're well pleased with that

 

[cowboy]

Awesome!...

 

[fishfish]

like that a lot!

 

[HillBill]

Nice.

Looks more usable than most of the woodie type knives you see about.

 

[SimonD]

chad sure makes a cracking knife

 

[MartinK9]

Lovely knife.

 

[Mesquite]

That's a great looking knife Neil, I can see why you're so pleased with it

 

[sasquatch]

Thanks for looking and commenting folks and thanks to Neil for posting. I'm real made up you like it.

I can't add a lot apart from I know Neil was after a user not a showpiece. Light and functional was high up on the list so I made a few extra holes in the tang;

I forced a patina so it wasn't shiny as shiny knives cause reluctance to abuse in my mind. The blade is similar to a Mora Neil uses and the micarta isn't so thick as to add too much weight. We hashed out what he was after for many months as I take ages to make these, it doesn't look like much more than a woodlore clone but it does have subtle differences that hopefully add to what he was after in a user. As usual it was all done by hand, bevels were filed not machined.

Glad you like it Neil, always a pleasure to hand over a knife that will be used and cherished! Git er done Vlud!

 

[Robbi]

good looking knife matey : we'll make a collector of you yet !

 

[Man of Tanith]

lovely knife that
Chad's blades are always amazing