Kitchen Knife

Here 's a new one I just finished up. First hidden tang,. not sure I'll do those everyday haha Thanks for looking!

Overall- 13"
Blade- 8.5", rounded spine
Steel - O1
Handle- Brass, ebony, G10, spalted birdseye maple

 

very nice-love the contrasts

 

That is indeed a very nice piece of work! That's your first attempt at a hidden tang??? Beautiful choice of materials and your fit and finish look great!

Jim T

 

Great work, love that maple.

 

Super fit. I like the handle shape from round to rectangle. Nice looking knife man.

 

Thank you gentlemen!

Yea Jim, thats the first finished one. I have a few profiled from a while back that I never finished yet, but I was pretty pumped on this blade so I made sure I didn't start anything else until this was done. That's one of my biggest problems in my shop,. I start a knife.. then "oooo whats this?" half way through I see a poor old piece of rectangle metal crying for me to turn it into a knife too, so then I end up with a bunch of blades with no handles haha

 

Damn wood. Always getting in the way of metalworking. ;-)

 

Very nice!

 

Beautiful work Mark, I love the contrast between all pieces. How long did you leave it in the acid?

 

Thanks again guys!

I dont know exactly how long but probably 3-4 minutes, ferric chloride 5:1 with water, then I spray it off with windex and give it a scrub with extra fine steel wool.

 

Beautiful knife.

 

Fred's back! ^^^. Can't wait to see some more of your work