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Title: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: jgbennett6 on March 11, 2008, 10:31:00 PM

I made these for some close hunting buddies they are 1085 and 2.75" long top one is tiger maple from my fathers wood lot, that we hunt, it has my usual red/black/red spacers. the botton one i tried to quilt the blade a bit and i used stacked veneers for teh handle.
 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/jgbennett6/CIMG0222.jpg)
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 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/jgbennett6/CIMG0224.jpg)
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Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: Leftieshot on March 11, 2008, 11:03:00 PM

Nice!!  What is quilting a blade?

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: farmboy on March 12, 2008, 01:37:00 AM

:thumbsup:

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: skullworks on March 12, 2008, 06:43:00 AM

Very nice! Look very good! Great job!

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: LC on March 12, 2008, 06:44:00 AM

Looks great, man thats some tight patterned tiger maple! Makes a great looking handle.

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: jgbennett6 on March 12, 2008, 08:19:00 AM

yeah can you believe we burned half of that tree for firewood before we noticed teh pattern!!!...I call it quilting, not really a good term or not, jsut what i call it, I put a waved pattern in the blade jsut to make it interesting, doesn't help or hurt the performance!

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: brettlandon on March 12, 2008, 09:10:00 AM

I really like the look of your "quilting."  Did you do that by stock removal (grinder or belt sander) or did you do it durring the forging.  Well done and thanks for posting.

-Brett

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: jgbennett6 on March 12, 2008, 09:31:00 AM

I did it on a belt sander using the hard wheel!..

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: Izzy on March 12, 2008, 02:18:00 PM

Masterful work, very nice.

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: JEFF B on March 12, 2008, 03:49:00 PM

tiger maple WOW!!!!  :clapper:  no that is way cool

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: jgbennett6 on March 13, 2008, 09:56:00 AM

thank you for the comliments guys

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: el oso on March 13, 2008, 11:52:00 PM

looks great! what are the spacers made of ?

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: 4runr on March 14, 2008, 09:15:00 PM

Very Nice Jake!!

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: vermonster13 on March 14, 2008, 09:25:00 PM

About time Jake. Slacker!    :biglaugh:

Very nice work.

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: tippit on March 14, 2008, 09:29:00 PM

Very nice Jake...but those are are babies  :D  Doc

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: One eye on March 16, 2008, 10:53:00 AM

Awesome looking knives.  I really like the tiger maple.  Is it known as something else, or is tiger wood its real name?  I wood like to find some of that.

Dan

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: jgbennett6 on March 17, 2008, 10:34:00 AM

Thanks for teh Kinda words guys, haha Doc you are right these are babies compared to the one i sent you!.. i have always called it tiger maple or striped maple. and for some reason the bucks around here love to rub up on the stuff. whenever i walk through the woods i'm always looking for a burled chunk of tree somewhere!

Title: Re: Finally got back in the shop
Post by: Razorbak on March 19, 2008, 01:44:00 PM

WoW Jake..which one is mine   :goldtooth:   ..looks real good..you come a long way my friend