This beauty here is for one of my VERY! discriminating customers who discovered my stash of early 20th century Bakelite.
I got this from an old demolished building in Wisconsin that was built in the 190....s. This stuff here is right at 100 years old.
So, the old century meets the new century with some clay processed W2 tool steel and hot-blued steel take-down fittings.
Hope you enjoy the viewing!

Love the knife, especially the blued fitting! But I'm not sure what bakelite is?

I think bakelite was supposed to be the plastic of the future back then,or something like that,,Those are just way yonder cool!! Very nice!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite

The Development of Bakelite

Around 1907, Belgian-born chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland took two ordinary chemicals, phenol and formaldehyde, mixed them in a sealed autoclave, and subjected them to heat and pressure. The sticky, amber-colored resin he produced in his Yonkers laboratory was the first plastic ever to be created entirely from chemicals, and the first material to be made entirely by man.

Dr. Baekeland's new material - he called it Bakelite - opened the door to the Age of Plastics and seeded the growth of a worldwide industry that today employs more than 60 million people. Today, synthetic plastics are everywhere. They are just as familiar to us as wood or metal, and as easily taken for granted.

I remember it,and that knife is just awesome!!!!!

Nice combo Buddy!      

Nice Karl,
Heck when I first saw it, I thought it was a very nice piece of Osage, I know what your thinking( big dummy) me too
Dana

looks really good kinda like a really fined grain hard wood.  lines flow great

Nice!

I do like that one! the blade profile has a Ed Fowler flavor, Which I have come to appreciate, and the rugged and solid construction that is your style!

I would be interested in seeing clay pattern you use to get that effect!

Steve
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Potomac Forge