hello all, here it is a medium sized knife with a 52100 forged blade and walnut wood handle:

elegant; very nice lines and choice of handle material.

I LIKE, UH HUW

To quote the song

WOW!!

I LOVE what you do to steel Matei, beautiful form and profile.

Frosty The Lucky.

Very cool and interesting design!

I like it  a lot!  would like to have looked over your shoulder while you were fitting the handle.

Fantastic! I feel that with the grey finished handle, the forge finish works better than with the brown one.

I like it a lot.

 

How far into the handle does the tang reach?

the tang goes all the way through the handle and is riveted at the end. here you can see somehow the end of the tang. I forgot to take a pic about that detail.

BEAUTIFUL! 

Matei: You've been teasing us with these stunning upset edges on knife furniture long enough! We'd REALLY like to know how you do it so some of us can add the technique to our mental tool kit.

Will you please post a series of progress pictures so we can see how you do this?

Thank you. Frosty The Lucky.

I'm with Frosty; I would love to see how this is done and possibly learn from it. Care to share the details?

I like this just a tad less than I like your take on the blacksmiths knife. Great job!

J

I like it a lot. I'd like to see one with the whole tang done that way for the handle!

next time i'll make something similar, i'll take photos. I already made several ones with that upset running down the tang, but I lost the pictures (they are on a hard disk drive of a broken computer, have to recover them). I have another one in progress, I just have to complete the sheath...

wow. i have never seen anything like it before. that's a beautiful piece of work!

 

That's a very unique design you can see traces of it in some of your other work.

It's good when people remembers your other work

thanks!

It reminds me of Joe Keeslar's Brute de Forge knives, but has a look all its own.

that's not a technique that I invented - I just had to figure how it works and pushed it some little more, maybe (or not)

beautiful.  i'd like to see in-process steps for that. 

that's not a technique that I invented - I just had to figure how it works and pushed it some little more, maybe (or not)

I think you did, hopefully my post was not taken to imply differently. The integrations and flow of the wood into the guard is certainly impressive.

Edited September 28, 201510 yr by Eddie Mullins