OT -- my new knife
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OT -- my new knife
I've seen a few knife postings so I thought I'd add a note about the new custom knife I received just last Friday, made by David Wesner of Kelsey Creek Knife Works.
http://www.kelseycreekknifeworks.com/files/BEF1.jpg
http://www.kelseycreekknifeworks.com/images/BEF4.jpg
http://www.kelseycreekknifeworks.com/images/BEF5.jpg
Steel: 1/4" 5160 @ 59/60 HRC
Hardware: 655 silicon bronze guard, pin & lanyard tube
Handle: WSSI stabilized birdseye maple
Sheath: 8-9 oz. veg tanned leather; hand sewn
OAL: 13-1/2"
Blade Length: 8-1/4"
I am more than pleased with the knife, it is fantastic and quite stunning.
The handle is birdseye maple and polished so smooth it feels like a piece of stone.
David sharpened it to a scary-sharp razor edge, it quite easily deforested large areas of my forearm.
Fit, finish, and balance are perfect.
This one is a keeper, I'll be taking it out for some field testing very soon.
Cheers,
Carl
http://www.kelseycreekknifeworks.com/files/BEF1.jpg
http://www.kelseycreekknifeworks.com/images/BEF4.jpg
http://www.kelseycreekknifeworks.com/images/BEF5.jpg
Steel: 1/4" 5160 @ 59/60 HRC
Hardware: 655 silicon bronze guard, pin & lanyard tube
Handle: WSSI stabilized birdseye maple
Sheath: 8-9 oz. veg tanned leather; hand sewn
OAL: 13-1/2"
Blade Length: 8-1/4"
I am more than pleased with the knife, it is fantastic and quite stunning.
The handle is birdseye maple and polished so smooth it feels like a piece of stone.
David sharpened it to a scary-sharp razor edge, it quite easily deforested large areas of my forearm.
Fit, finish, and balance are perfect.
This one is a keeper, I'll be taking it out for some field testing very soon.
Cheers,
Carl
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Re: OT -- my new knife
Just ease my viewing pleasure:
I would be pleased also!new pig hunter wrote:
Steel: 1/4" 5160 @ 59/60 HRC
Hardware: 655 silicon bronze guard, pin & lanyard tube
Handle: WSSI stabilized birdseye maple
Sheath: 8-9 oz. veg tanned leather; hand sewn
OAL: 13-1/2"
Blade Length: 8-1/4"
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Very nice big knife, looks like a quality piece.
I'm bummed about knives right now,
realized I need a knife to go with my rimfire
combo dating 1927 & 1946. Lost out on an eBay
auction the other day on a Marbles Skinner with
a beautiful patina to the stag at over $100. I can't
photo the combo until I get the right knife
and get some leather gear for it.
I'm bummed about knives right now,
realized I need a knife to go with my rimfire
combo dating 1927 & 1946. Lost out on an eBay
auction the other day on a Marbles Skinner with
a beautiful patina to the stag at over $100. I can't
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and get some leather gear for it.
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Re: OT -- my new knife
Wow Carl - that may be the understatement of the year! That knife is goregous!!!new pig hunter wrote: I am more than pleased with the knife...
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griff,
thanks much for inserting the pictures !!
I was using the knife yesterday to cut up some limes: the blade passed through the lime so easily I couldn't believe it. AND the blade passed through a few seeds too and I didn't even know it.
It's now one of my favorites pieces of Tactical Tableware.
Cheers,
Carl
thanks much for inserting the pictures !!
I was using the knife yesterday to cut up some limes: the blade passed through the lime so easily I couldn't believe it. AND the blade passed through a few seeds too and I didn't even know it.
It's now one of my favorites pieces of Tactical Tableware.
Cheers,
Carl
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Stablized wood is impregnated with a resin. You will see that down alot with spalted (diseased or rotted) woods. The constrast between the bad and good sections of wood makes for an attractive looking end result.I'm just getting into knives, what is "stabilized wood"?
From CLCcustomgrips.com:
Here is a set of spalted/stablized mable grips from the same site:
Some people have asked me what spalted wood was, believing it to be some sort of man made artificial material. This is far from the truth. It is completely made by Mother Nature. Man can not create it so that's what makes it so expensive.
Spalted wood does grow in the normal sense of the word. Spalting in the wood is caused by bacteria. It is found in dead and dying trees. Some hardwood companies actually create spalted wood. They take the cut logs and bury them in sawdust and keep them moist to grow the bacteria. If you take a fresh piece of spalted wood and put it in a plastic bag with a regular piece of wood, the spalting bacteria will actually transfer to the other piece of wood as well.
The spalting in the wood is completely random and does not follow any pattern such as the wood grain. It is the spalting bacteria that produce the different colors and black lines in the wood. Since the spalting is actually decaying the wood, you have to use it at the right stage. Very late stage spalted wood will actually be like balsa wood. The later the stage of the spalting, the more beautiful the colors can be. The spalting process can be stopped by drying the wood.
Although man can help start the spalting process, the colors, patterns and black lines are designed only by Mother Nature.
Stabilizing was developed so this soft wood can be used for things like knife handles and gun grips and other things. Once the wood is stabilized. its properties are much stronger than the actual hard wood that is not spalted.
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