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Andrew, Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder. The second knife I made was for my wife. I showed her blocks of beautiful wood, burl, pearl and ivory but she chose dymondwood. I've even offered to change them out a number of times but she says she loves it the way it is. I know your father feels the same way. But if you decide never to use it again, it makes great sacrificial scales when working with stag, ivory, etc.
2nd knife with emerald green dymondwood, I received a number of when I first posted |
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Hey what do I know? I think it looks nice. Would never have known it was Dymondwood if you hadn't told us.
__________________ Peace Paul Vandine |
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God help us when the cheapo knives coming in from Tiawan start showing up with curly maple, burls, ironwood, and ivory.
I've already seen some $7 dollar specials down at the mall with linen Micarta. __________________ Andy Garrett https://www.facebook.com/GarrettKnives?ref=hl Charter Member - Kansas Custom Knifemaker's Association www.kansasknives.org "Drawing your knife from its sheath and using it in the presence of others should be an event complete with oos, ahhs, and questions." |
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sold two knives last night.the buyer picked out one with maroon micarta,and the other was walnut dymondwood.last one w/dymondwood that i had.the others were different colors of micarta.if there's one thing I've learned,it's that you can't predict what someone will want.
__________________ Tom Buchanan |
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The concept of dymondwood is sound. Plywood with cross oriented grain with good layer bonding adhesive is great stuff for minimal movement and durability. Dye the layers with god awful colors and it ruins the stuff. I wouldn't cross the room to look at a knife that was handled in dymondwood. It is too bad the cheap imports 'ruined it' with such a negative stigma. It's good material for a knife handle. IF they ever come out some dymondwood that looked more 'natural', I'd put it on a user. |
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As I was sitting here laughing at what Tracy said , my wife pointed out how many of the
kit knives I made a couple of years ago had Diamondwood handles on them. I think the knife world is the one who thinks it looks cheap , people around here thought it was cool. Again its all personal prefrence. __________________ Also known as Dwane Oliver |
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Forged knives with dymondwood
Here are my third and fourth knives.
The first is 1084 forged steel blade is 6 1/4" long. With indigo blue dymondwood. Second is same steel with emerald green dymondwood blade is 3 1/2". I am particularly pleased with how the handles turned out, and have been using the little green one pretty hard since I finished it last week. Unfortunately its pic didnt turn out real well. Other than the stereotype of dymondwood being cheap i like it for a handle material. Although my first and second knives made use of buffalo horn and ebony. And now i have gotten hold of some exhibition walnut and maple, cant wait to use them. knife3R.JPG knife4.JPG knife4l.JPG Last edited by jbostic; 12-29-2005 at 07:52 PM. |
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I just posted the pics of my latest Dymondwood sin over in the Display Case.
I really like that blue stuff! It looks great on jbostic's wavy one too! Dwane, you hit the nail right on the head! The average joe doesn't know that he's supposed to frown on Dymondwood. Don't get me wrong, I am very partial to higher end stuff, but I think I'll always have a place in my heart [and my shop] for indigo Dymondwood! BTW Tracy, I think I have some goofy colored stuff you could bury, but I'll be using it on my "Tracy Mickley Tribute Knife" LMAO __________________ Andy Garrett https://www.facebook.com/GarrettKnives?ref=hl Charter Member - Kansas Custom Knifemaker's Association www.kansasknives.org "Drawing your knife from its sheath and using it in the presence of others should be an event complete with oos, ahhs, and questions." Last edited by Andrew Garrett; 12-29-2005 at 10:31 PM. |
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