Robert Burns Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 As the title suggests this knife was something different for me and my first time working with carbon fiber. The customer approached me about wanting a larger camp knife with out the extra weight and without decreasing performance so I came up with this. The spine is 1/4 in thick (as per customers request) and has a tapered full tang that reduces to slightly under 1/8 inch. The tang was also skeletonized by drilling out holes throughout and then hollow grinding the tang to further reduce weight. The knife was also given a high flat grind to also decrease weight. The steel is Aldo's 1084 and I clayed it to achieve a hamon. The customer requested that I place the flint striker notch on the blade its self as opposed to on the ricasso or another area. Because the temper was going to be effected anyway I only hardened the blade up to the striker notch. The final weight of the knife came to 7.5 ounces which for a 1/4 inch thick spine and 12 inch long knife I think is not too bad. It could have been made lighter but I think this will do the task. As always thank you for looking and all comments, questions, and critiques welcome. Robert http://www.wildernessironworks.org/http://www.facebook.com/WildernessIronworksRobert Burns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Hebbard Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Camp knife? In africa we'd call it a survival knife, allrounder comes to mind! Looks like it can do everything!!! Cool work, nice design... To become old and wise... You first have to survive being young and foolish! Ikisu.blogsot.com. Email; milesikisu@gmail.com mobile: +27784653651 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.H.Graham Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Cool. I luv big knives :0) Randal www.rhgraham.simpl.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin Miller Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I like it.How is the balance? “If you trust in yourself. . . believe in your dreams. . . and follow your star. . . you will still get beaten by the people who have spent their time working hard and learning things, the people who weren't so lazy.” ~ Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franck Meurou Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Superb knife... I like it too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Burns Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Thanks for the comments everyone, Collin the balance point it about 1 1/2 inches forward of the end of the scale material so very comfortable for chopping and other cutting tasks. http://www.wildernessironworks.org/http://www.facebook.com/WildernessIronworksRobert Burns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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