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Here's the Bowie I'm working on.
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That does look like a bowie, now that you mention it. A buffalo horn cap might look good on the end of the handle and it looks like you might have more guard than you really need ....
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Yeah Ray, it is a little long, but its heat treated 1084 so I'm just going to live with it. I'm giving it to a friend who gives me axis horn. Plus it doesn't look too bad.
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Kevster, did you just grind the turquoise or did you have to do anything special to get it shaped?
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No reason to live with the guard that way if you don't like it. An angle grinder or a rotary tool will nip it right off and then you can shape it one your grinder. It's a nice knife all else considered and I usually don't like bowies.
Doug __________________ If you're not making mistakes then you're not trying hard enough |
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The turquoise is just a composite materal, I glued the copper, turquoise and stainless together and sanded the on my grinder, and then hand sanded after that.
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Yeah Doug, I think it will look better shorter, I'll nip it off later today.
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1084, angle, bowie, grind, grinder, guard, hand, handle, heat, horn, knife, stainless |
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