Made this on the weekend

[Gelandangan]

Hollow ground 6.5 inch hidden tang.


Steel 1095 @ 58 HRC
Bakelite + FR4 PCB + Gidgee handle


Thanks for looking

[bobob]

I like your hollow grind on a fine looking knife.

A friend of mine from your country sent me a box of beautiful lumber for scales including Budgeroo and Purple Gidgee. We have some fine wood, but nothing like that here in the States.

Good work, gelandangan!

Doc Burgess

[LoopSoosStroop]

Excellent work. I'm jealous.

[Artful]

Very Nice - I'm Also Jealous.

[Hardcast416taylor]

Having been a knife maker myself, I appreciate looking at nice work done by others. Very nicely done. I once was brought into my work an armful of boards that had been the shipping crate for a hunters finished game heads from Africa. It was a beautifuly colored yellow, orangish color with black/brown striping throughout. I wondered if this is such poor quality wood as to make up a crate, send me several more crates, that wood was a rave want on my blades immediately after I finished the first scale set! I tried to identify what wood it was though I never found out.Robert

[Gelandangan]

Thanks for the kind words guys!

Hardcast416taylor , you may want to stabilize unknown wood.
By doing that you are increasing its strength, and ensuring that IF it has bad effect to human, it is at least fully encased.

[CastingFool]

Very nice looking knife. The black bakelite guard makes it look classy.

[pworley1]

Great work.

[Hardcast416taylor]

Thanks for the kind words guys!

Hardcast416taylor , you may want to stabilize unknown wood.
By doing that you are increasing its strength, and ensuring that IF it has bad effect to human, it is at least fully encased.

This is going back about 15 years as I recall. The wood was quite dry and was a very hard wood to work with. I did more grinding than cutting and sanding. I oil finished the scales when I finally got them how was required. I actually deep soaked the wood in linseed oil for a week before doing any further finishing so the inner grain wasn`t bone dry. After final finishing and a light buffing they were a real eye catcher. Sadly the photo album I had for my knives was lost, over 20 years of my working metal and wood is a memory now.Robert

[Gelandangan]

So it is now sold.
I think I will make another one next weekend

[trapper9260]

That is one nice looking knife you made.i like it.