Ebony Hunter - SRR Knife #1
 

Finally finished my first handmade knife! :D

This is a hunter forged from 1084 High Carbon steel, with a nickel-silver guard, ebony handle, and mosaic pin. The sharpened blade is 3.5" long with a 4" handle; 8-1/4" overall length. The whole knife is hand-rubbed to a 600-grit finish, and the handle is sanded to 600-grit then buffed to a polish. The mark was engraved with a diamond-stylus pantograph machine.

This knife started about nine months ago in Old Washington, Arkaknsas. Forged and ground the blade there, and did the finish and handle here in Victorville. Took a lot longer than I would have liked, but for my first effort I am pretty happy with the results.

Here are the pics: (Click for full size images)

http://www.2smrt4u.com/gallery/album...unter_pic1.jpg

http://www.2smrt4u.com/gallery/album...unter_pic2.jpg

http://www.2smrt4u.com/gallery/album...unter_pic3.jpg

What do you guys think?

That's a fantastic piece of craftsmanship.

Well done.

sweet! i love it!

VERY cool

looks really nice!

I like it a lot

Is it very much more difficult to make a folding knife?

Quite a bit harder. I'm going to make one soon hopefully, but there are a lot of parts to the lock that have to be just right or the lock is weak.