Something I've been playing with for a while is the creation of a knife utilizing a great deal of forging skills, heat treating skills with decent quality tool steel, and assembly creativity all rolled up into one, and still ending up with a knife built for hard use and minimal care.
So, here we have, the "Brut de Camp".
Forged from large stock W2, given a clay treatment in the heat treating for a spectacular hamon, a Brut de Forge style full tang blade with polished spine, etched hamon and scaled finish on the flats, and topped off with re-cycled tire handle material that has seemingly never-ending grip.
I will finish off this package with a Kydex sheath.
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Very cool Karl. It just beckons me to chop something.Alot of somethings.
Tire for a knife handle eh? sounds cool to me.
Well done,I really like it.
CTT
Not tire - recycled tire.
It's ground up tire that's been re-formed into flat sheets.
Oh I see, Feels good and grippy eh? Do you glue it down? or just pin it?
Great looking knife Karl.
Chuck
That's a handsome brute!
WOW..........................whatta hamon. :saywhat:
That is a nice one!
I agree "handsome brute" and great Hammon
Chris