Knife - ok, more like letter opener... Well conversation piece then?

That’s beautiful.

-- ~Jason~ , Albuquerque NM

I don’t know … and I don’t care … what we call it.

I think it looks REALLY cool !!!

-- -- Neil

Beautiful describes your knife very well. This is art and you are an artist. Who cares if it’s useless. There’s plenty of high priced tools on the market that are also pretty useless, but people buy them anyway.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Oh, I like that. I hadn’t thought about it like that, but it makes sense. I will call it a tactile art piece… Thanks for the compliments.

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

Nice knife, though I’d love to see a sheath for it. Beautiful work.

-- Will in Boulder, CO

hmm, a sheath – oddly, I hadn’t considered that. Thanks for the comments.

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

A steel blade? I bet that was a real bitch to knap….beautiful.

that is stunning were would you get that sort of blade from

-- cut it saw it scrap it SKPE: ANDREW.CARTER69

Dennis – yeah that was tricky. You just heat treat it and don’t stress relieve it. It chips just like glass… j.k.
O1 is a pretty common tool steel. It is pretty widely used because it is relatively easy to heat treat and temper. I bought it from Sheffield Knifemakers Supply (about 20 years ago) – I used shop built belt grinders to shape it. (Obviously for this application you do not need the high $ stuff, since it isn’t intended for use anyway.) It is just what I had laying around at the time.

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

That is really cool. Very nice workmanship. I do want to pick it up. I thought it was flint.

Nice tip with the brass brazing rod. It looks really nice. I’ll tuck that little nugget away.

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Very nice craftsmanship. I thought the knife blade was a flint rock. Being tool steel, it will really hold an edge.

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

Great looking. Nice looking knife

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Thanks, that means a lot coming from you guys.

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

I had spotted pictures of your knife on the internet a year ago or so. It is very eye catching and even inspired me to try a bit of knapping. Beautiful work.

That is interesting; I wonder where you saw it? I had it on photobucket, and linked it on a thread about how to drill the holes to pin a handle to a knife. Other than that, I didn’t think it was out there to be seen…

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...