It's not finished - but if you've been reading, you know what it will be.

Note the new Bolster Geometry. How do you like THOSE angles?



Now: it would be exceptional all polished out. ORrrrrrrr..... I can "Carve it out of the Park!" with Southwest Bolsters!!!!

You can see that this will finish about 7" open.

Gary


(BTW) .... this is not the secret project. Guess you figured .... smile.

That is a lot of meticulous work on the bolsters. Are scales the same as a bolster? Or are bolsters the "frame" and scales on are mounted to a frame? I do not know knife terminology well enough. Will see what google thinks.

Polish or engraved okay thanks will be a stunning knife!

Pedro

Thks Pedro,

I forgot to mention that.

The frame/bolsters are milled from the same chunk. The scales are inlaid into the void I machined away.

Thks

Gary

That is way cool Gary! It will be nice to see how it turns out!
Thanks for sharing,
Jeff

Heat Treating the Blade!



This is the hardening Phase ....

Tempering comes next ....



Now a bunch of sanding and polishing!

Gary



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/14/2017 12:07AM by barnespneumatic.

Sanding and polishing the blade this evening