Well i finally made one for myself to keep. This isn't a new design for me, but i'm pretty well stoked to have it staying home. O-1 (as usual for me), curly maple and copper. Finaly got a leather groover so I was excited for this sheath as well. Please bear with a proud papa...
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Nice Nate :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
well done
i think the mustard patina and curly maple
are a great combination
great package all together
Very nice, I'm always a sucker for curly maple. Very nice patina as well. Good stuff.
I just plain like that knife!
Dang Brother that is awesome , I love the grooves :clapper:
Nathan,
Where you been hiding those beauties!! I love it :thumbsup: Are you coming up for the White
Mountain Shoot at Tynesboro in August? Your welcome to stay at our house just 15 minutes away...Doc
Oh boy, I sure do like that one :) . Really like the sheath, too. What did you do to obtain the patina on your blade? Great job.
Jeremy
Man that maple is glowing! really nice work on the sheath to!
Nathan, that is most excellent! I like everything about that knife and sheath! The maple is pretty and that Spanish notch is a nice detail!
What stain did you use on the maple please?
Nice photos too.
Steve
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Potomac Forge
Nice knife & sheath.
Thanks for all the kind words, means a lot coming from you guys.
Jeff-I just looked up the dates on the shoot, Argh!! I'm gonna be in WY that weekend. I cant say that I'm disappointed to be going to WY, but why couldnt it be another weekend??? :banghead: I'd love to meet up for another shoot though. Plus that would be a great excuse to pick your brain on a few things knife related as well.
Steve, I wrote down my recipe, cause I figured I'd forget(which I promptly did). I'll dig up my notebook and post it on here tomorrow hopefully. I know I used alcohol based leather dye and a minwax stain of another color. I luckily have a big slab of curly that I experimented all over.
Jeremy- Thats good old plain french's mustard. Put it on "REAL" thin and then pull it up into little peaks with your fingertip. Anywhere thats yellow wont really be affected, the clear spots are where it darkens. Must be an aerobic reaction of some sort and the mustard seed paste prevents Oxygen from reaching the surface. The other spots are free to be affected by the acetic acid and air. Just my guess. Nothing like fitting my hypothesis to the results eh? Probably dont want to repeat that to anyone since its probably way off base ;)
Drew, If anything ever "happens" to your sheath, I could always make you a new and improved one!
Nathan, excellent work. Really like the patina on the blade and the clean lines of the sheath. Well done.
Beautiful work on both, the knife and sheath!!
Looks great!
Alot of detail on that one. Really nice!
Thanks again guys!
Steve, i looked up the procedure i used and good thing I wrote it down cause it wasnt what I thought. Here goes: first i whiskered it 3 times with rubbing alcohol, next i soaked in linsed for 5 min and then wiped clean. Next I applied Fiebings dark brown(#124) for 3 mins.wiped clean and repeated the linseed soak one more time. After it dried for a few days and stopped sweating, i hit it with my buffing wheel and some beeswax. Thought for sure I used the minwax, but i did a whole ton of practice spots on this one, so this must have made it pop the best for me.
Nathan
Thanks Nathan, interesting procedure and I like the results. I would not have thought the stain would take well after soaking in linsed oil! Now I need to write it down!
Thanks!
Steve
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Potomac Forge
Nathan That Curly wood looks frikin beautiful..And O-1 is a great steel its one that keeps ticken long after those others give in.
Man my Sis may need to take some sheath lessons from you...Wow I thought Mass was only good for tea parties.. Not to often I WANT SOMEONE ELSES KNIFE...
Almost makes me want to "loose" my sheath , but there isn't anything wrong with it :thumbsup:
Looking Great Nate. :eek:
Nice to see you Drew :wavey:
Wow!!! That thing looks like its on fire.
Be seeing you soon Charlie :thumbsup:
AWESOME bro!!!!!! LOVE my knife ya made me, wore it to Denton Hill last weekend. hope to chase deer with ya this fall on the mountain!
What a gorgeous knife!!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
F-Manny
Thanks again brothers!
Nathan
Looks really nice!
now when ya going to start taking orders????
QuoteOriginally posted by adkmountainken:
now when ya going to start taking orders????
I want to be on the list :)
F-Manny
That is a beautiful knife
Jeez Ken, I figured you of all people would know first hand how slow my turn around time is! God forbid I ever made these for money, I obsess so much about the details now and I only make them as presents. If I was making them for money I might never be able to let one go for fear of some kind of flaw getting by me.
Thanks again for the kind words guys, I actually had to open my hat up twice this weekend in Wyoming(had it for over 5 yrs and never adjusted it once), don't know if it was the altitude or all the kind words :)
On a side note, I did get to see a Mt lion at about a hundred yards checking out my girlfriend and I. Luckily it was across a little river.
Nathan