Zircote Hunter

Emmons · April 21, 2009, 06:45:00 PM

My first mortised tang knife (thanks you Lin's build-a-long). Need to build a light box and learn to take better photos. Besides that, let me know what you think.

4-1/2" Blade made from O1
OAL 9-1/2"
Mortised tang contruction
416 SST guard and pins
Zircote handle material

Thanks for looking,

James

Hillbilly81 · April 21, 2009, 06:48:00 PM

Awesome Knife!!!!!!!!!!
Love it!!!!!!

Montauks · April 21, 2009, 07:25:00 PM

Very Nice!

Lin Rhea · April 21, 2009, 07:40:00 PM

Yea Buddy!!!! That really turned out nice. Those pins are dead on.

Lin

Ray Hammond · April 21, 2009, 07:54:00 PM

Wow....very nice, Chile!

Jack Denbow · April 21, 2009, 08:36:00 PM

Excellent.

Jack

Kevin Evans · April 21, 2009, 08:49:00 PM

That is Excellent!!!

Emmons · April 21, 2009, 08:52:00 PM

Thank you everyone!! I will try to get some more photos up of this one. I really like building the mortised tang versus a hidden tang. I also think this is my best knife yet.

Lin-I again thank you very much for explaining this style of knife construction. I have a how to by Terry Primos book marked on how to build a mortised tang, but his website is gone since he stopped making knives.

MYSTIKBOW · April 21, 2009, 09:30:00 PM

She's a real beauty James! Excellent craftsmenship!

woodsman1031 · April 21, 2009, 10:18:00 PM

Awesome knife!!

Emmons · April 21, 2009, 10:49:00 PM

Guard Fit

Plunge

Mirror Finish

Thank you again everyone!!

LC · April 21, 2009, 11:04:00 PM

Man thats beautiful! Great knife!

Chris Surtees · April 21, 2009, 11:56:00 PM

Beautiful knife!

OconeeDan · April 22, 2009, 05:03:00 AM

A GREAT looking knife, way to go!

For photos, try taking photos in the evening, using only a table lamp nearby. This will cause your camera on "auto" to use the flash. The flash fill in will help a lot.
Also, darker woods will show more contrast if you don't use light backgrounds, a medium dark background as you were using will be fine usually.
Take flash photos from various angles and only keep the best ones.

Dan

tippit · April 22, 2009, 06:17:00 AM

James, Truly a beauty!!!

skullworks · April 22, 2009, 07:59:00 AM

Wowzer! That is beautiful!!!!!

DANA HOLMAN · April 22, 2009, 08:09:00 AM

Man that is very nice, i to have been looking at lin's build along
Great job
dana

drewsbow · April 22, 2009, 06:56:00 PM

Dang thats sweet :0)

Lin Rhea · April 22, 2009, 06:57:00 PM

It's too bad Terry stopped making knives. I hope to see him at some of the events this year. I learned a lot from his website too.

Again, you made an outstanding knife. It looks like you gave great attention to each part and the results totaled up to a very fine knife. Anyone would be proud to carry that one. Lin

GRAYBEARD · April 25, 2009, 04:55:00 PM

JAMES,
I HAVEN'T DROOLED LIKE THIS SINCE I WAS TWO YEARS OLD.
WOW!