This is a Christmas present to myself. It's based off my favorite weapon from my favorite video game.

Wrought iron recycled from wagon wheels and 15n20 outer layers, Cruforge core with 15n20 shims. Handle is leftover G10 and red spacers. I made the knife to test out the blade, since this was my first iron san-mai piece. 

First test was cutting leather and penetration. First stab went through three layers of 3/16" leather and then stuck in the frozen stump... in hind-site it was poor choice to work with wood that's been outdoors.

Then I chopped up some 3/4" red cedar that was left over from residing the house. I was too tentative to go full strength because I had too short a piece to hold comfortably, but still chopped nicely.

In the game it was sharp enough to cut off a Rathalos' wing, so I tried that out - popped that sucker right off.

Lastly I shaved some leg hair.

Here's the game knife, you can see I took some liberties.

 

I'm certain we've all gotten requests for knives or swords from video games, I'd love to hear about some of them from y'all, please share.

Theo

Looks a bit like a gladius. Nice work.

You barbecue rathelos or fry it?

You turn it into a knife!

the Damascus looks pretty slick with that design.

Thank you

That came out good!  One of the best video-game-inspired blades I've seen.  :)

Real nice job on the laminations. Good looking blade as well. 

 

Couple days ago I got brave and tried forging some wrought to 1075 for a saex style blade. Was going along decent until the wrought tried separating when I was forging the tip over and I noticed along the spine at top of the wrought it had started a small split. Fun stuff though. Will be happy when my forge welding turns out as well as yours did. 

John at Alamo Custom Leather with a sheath for the knife I made myself last year. Back carry, just like in the video game. He even managed to work in the Rathalos icon in color. Blew me away.

That looks xxxxxxx cool.

Thanks buddy :)