Fighter - carved blade w/Black Ash Burl Handle

[tmickley]

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Fighter with carved blade and Black Ash burl handle. The 154CM blade is 7? long with a full convex grind. The blade thickness varies due to the carving but is just around .140? at it?s thickest point so it?s not a pry bar. It?s a sleek, quick fighter. I did the heat treat and cryo to 58RC. The blade is carved in a gentle curve that runs 3/4?s of the length of the blade. The over all length is just over 12? The burl wood was stabilized by WSSI and has some texturing on the handle for that little extra grip and to give the handle a little visual interest. The guard is 416ss and was forged to shape. The entire blade is mirrored up as you can probably see. This one ships for $375 CONUS

[Andrew Garrett]

That's a beauty Tracy!

[jace11229]

Dude!
That's so sweet my teeth hurt!
Jace

[SVanderkolff]

Tracey
Very nice. I like that one. Have you been watching the Broadwell dvd?
Maybe we should arrange a trade?
Steve

[tmickley]

Originally Posted by SVanderkolff

Tracey
Very nice. I like that one. Have you been watching the Broadwell dvd?
Maybe we should arrange a trade?
Steve

Thanks guys.
Steve. I did watch Broadwells video and finally got around to doing something with it. I'm not sure when the last time was I hand sandeded as much as I did on this one. It seems for every few minutes you use a power tool carving steel, you have to spend an hour hand sanding to fix the screw ups. I do plan on doing some more with some thicker steel.