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Title: St Jude Knife finally finished
Post by: SveinD on May 17, 2011, 03:47:00 AM

After a vote on PowWow to donate something nice for my 1000th post I started on this one.
As you may have seen the finish went wrong on it, but after some good tips from this forum, it's finally finished.

Handle in Wenge and Bloodwood, black spacers and tinn-silver.
Blade is from Johan Hamre, a 7th generation blacksmith, specializing in edged tools.

Hope you like it^^

 (http://edge.imgur.com/89ya6.png)
 (http://edge.imgur.com/rHTKk.png)

As always, comments and tips, bad or good, ar always well recieved  :)

Title: Re: St Jude Knife finally finished
Post by: Lin Rhea on May 17, 2011, 06:09:00 AM

It's a beauty. Great job.

Title: Re: St Jude Knife finally finished
Post by: skullworks on May 17, 2011, 06:10:00 AM

Nice work!!!!

Title: Re: St Jude Knife finally finished
Post by: kbaknife on May 17, 2011, 07:48:00 AM

One of my favorite styles of knife.
The Puukko has been around forever!
Must be something useful about them and you did a great job on that one.

Title: Re: St Jude Knife finally finished
Post by: GRAYBEARD on May 17, 2011, 08:22:00 AM

That is a fine looking, useful sized knife. Nicely done.

Title: Re: St Jude Knife finally finished
Post by: DANA HOLMAN on May 17, 2011, 09:17:00 AM

Great Job on the knife.

Title: Re: St Jude Knife finally finished
Post by: SveinD on May 17, 2011, 11:35:00 AM

Thanks, coming from you guys that means a lot!

Title: Re: St Jude Knife finally finished
Post by: amar911 on May 17, 2011, 10:16:00 PM

Nice work Svein. It's amazing what a little knife like that can do in experienced hands. I may not have the skill to produce one, but I could skin and quarter any thin-skinned land animal on the planet with one. Only thick-skinned animals like elephant, rhino, and hippo absolutely require bigger blades. I have taken a cape buffalo apart with a blade that size. Now, when it comes to slicing up meat, a longer blade ought to be used, but you can always leave a bigger knife back in camp to do that kind of work. I'm not saying that a short bladed knife like yours would be the most efficient knife for many purposes, but it sure would be handy to carry and would do most of what someone needs in the field. Congratulations on a pretty little knife. Keep up the learning and someday you will be turning out knives like the pros in this forum who blow me away with their talent and skill.

Allan

Title: Re: St Jude Knife finally finished
Post by: Shinken on May 18, 2011, 11:39:00 PM

Svein - I am really likin' the looks of this knife - great work!

It would do a great job on my next big game animal.

I will keep my eye open for it on the St Jude's Auction.

Shoot straight, Shinken

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