Seems like with this "early" spring the whole country is experiencing has got my knife work kinda fouled up... What would normally still be shop time weather has turned into working outside weather. I did manage to get these two done a couple days ago. They will be on the way to the new owners in the next few days when the sheaths are finished.

The top one is forged from 1 1/2" round, 52100 with a light etch on the blade and some Montana Bighorn scales.

The bottom is lightly twisted 15n20/1080 with more Bighorn.
 
Sorry for the crappy cell phone pic...

Thanks for looking!

Those are beautiful!!!

That is the best looking horn I've seen. Great stuff, as always.

That is some *fantastic* work right there Doug!

         

Some people will be enjoyin' those blades....

Shoot straight, Shinken

 

Those are really nice Doug, I like the different color of the horn.

Wow! Awesome!!!

Gotta love those Bighorn Sheep!  

Doug - those are great.  I really like the look of the horn for scales.  Can you tell me - or anyone for that matter.  Is horn easy to manipulate to get it flat enough for scales or do you just have access to large enough horns that it is not necessary?  I have a couple, actually a lot, of blades finished that need scales and I have some smaller sheep horn that I would like to try but I do not think the horn is large enough for scales w/o some flattening.  Is there a trick, boil, heat, ???

Thanks - and great work as always

looks great the little guy is my favorite. looks like a real good user.

like em both but bottom one is my favorite.
Great work!!

Sighhhhhh! Beauties there  sir.

I really like your damascus. Not to dark or to busy,just right.

Both knives are wonderful. 52100 is one of my favorite knife steels, and that knife has class to spare, but the Damascus knife really gets my blood rushing. Wow, what a great design, with the beautiful blade and elegant horn. Gotta love that knife!

Allan

Those are awesome!!!

Thanks guys, glad y'all like em. The bottom one is headed off to CA       this morning but the other gets to stay in MT. Hope they both see lots of use and serve the new owners for years to come.

Bobby, you've just got to play with the horn, personally I like the wild sheep. Typically the Bighorn is a larger "curl" making it easier to get your scales. The drawback is the cost of buying Bighorn and cutting it up, you really want to study it well before sticking it in the bandsaw...  I've had a little success boiling and flattening horn if it wasn't too out of flat but seems like it will always try to go back to it's original shape. I think no matter what you do if your cutting your own scales there is going to be a fair amount of waste...

Those are nice Doug!  I especially like the first one!  Haven't yet had the pleasure to use bighorn scales but it really is beautiful handle material.

Those are nice Doug!  I especially like the first one!  Haven't yet had the pleasure to use bighorn scales but it really is beautiful handle material.

Beautiful like always!