Some Knifeage

[Chainsaw]

Having a week off work is great, got loads done including some blade blank handling that have been sitting on my bench for ages. First up was the twins, a couple of Stu Barker blanks. These are his take on the Canadian Belt Knife shape and are nice general purpose blades, surprisingly good for food prep as well as general camp jobs. I got them from Stu on British Blades but wasn't too keen on the belt finish they came with but some elbow grease soon got them shiiiinnneeey

One is yew with red liners

and one is maple with black liners

The yew one turned out better than the maple, not enough figuring in the maple for my tastes but it maybe I just wasn't able to bring it out. Also the black liners aren't quite right at the bolster, not sure how it happened but one has slipped back under the wood about half a millimetre.

Also the drill holes were a little large, I think I used the wrong corby bolts after drilling them and so you can see the epoxy ring.

I think I'll have them off at some point but not right away.

Next up was another Stu Barker, a bead blasted necker with kydex sheath. Had some Carbon fibre and white liners I wanted to try and it came out really well. CF is horrible to work with but I'm really pleased with the results. Turning into a bit of a Stu B fanboy

Had to mod the Kydex sheath a little, not 100% happy with it but works great

Too critical as usual!

Cheers,

Alan

 

[filcon]

Well done chainsaw , I like your choice in knife style and finishing.

cheers phil

 

[dwardo]

Nice work

Stu does do some lovely blades...

 

[Hoodoo]

Big fan of the Canadian Belt knife style so I like those a lot. The second one looks like a handy dandy necker for utility use. Very nice work. I like that size for neckers. I have one that is kinda/almost/not really similar.

 

[Chainsaw]

ooo that's nice, any more details????

Cheers,

Alan

 

[Shewie]

Very nice Alan

Love that necker