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  4. Wry handy skill to have , nice knife
  5. Another great looking knife RT. We'll all be signing up for your knife making school when you open it.
  6. Most high carbon Damascus is etched in a ferric chloride mixture, then often given a finish etch in coffee. The first time I tried making a knife with stainless Damascus, I tried Ferric, but it didnt touch it. Despite trying for increasingly longer periods, Ferric brought out virtually no pattern at all. The last two knives I have actually successfully made from this stainless Damascus, I have used hydrochloric acid for the etch. It does much better, with some pattern emerging within the first minute. Now I am just trying to work out how long to leave it in the etch, so thats still an ongoing process.
  7. Yeh, bugger about the layers being off centre, nice looking knife otherwise.
  8. Very nice. Great looking skinner
  9. Nice work. How do etching?
  10. Awesome knife, well done
  11. Another variation on a knife I have made a few times now. I am going to have to come up with a name because I think I will be making a few more soon. Second time working with Chinesium VG10 Damascus steel. This was a 3mm billet, and the layers are slightly off centre which is a bit of a pain. Guess I cant really expect quality control from Chinese production. Luckily it has enough core steel to sharpen up with a good edge. Last time I etched Damascus, I left it a bit too long and it etched pretty deep. This time I etched it for much shorter periods. Its probably a little under done this time. I will maybe split the difference next time. The blade is a full flat grind with a tapered tang. Handle is African ebony with thin red G10 liners, mosaic pins and a hand rubbed oil finish.
  12. Hi, i'm Julius, new member of community. Thanks for your welcom and i'm passionate of hunting with longue range fire.
  13. great idea, glow in the dark handle
  14. Its Chinesium and I dont really know what its supposed to do. I just bought it off the photo which made it look pretty bright in the dark, but it didnt turn out that way. For all I know its radioactive waste from a Chinese nuclear submarine encased in resin - but probably not since I expect that would glow better. 🤣🤣🤣
  15. It's a ripper RT. How do I order one ?
  16. Rifletuner, you say you were a bit disappointed with the luminosity of the handle on that knife. Is it supposed to be luminous all the time, or is it only as luminous as the "charge" that is applied to it? Do you think there is too much happening with the other ingredients in the material?
  17. Hey, thats it. Exactly the sort of thing I had in mind when I went looking for luminous handles 👍
  18. RT below is an excerpt from a tale of a stag I took many years ago. Geez I wished I had one like your handle as even a glimmer would have helped me find it. In bold below. I found my GR on a return trip the next morning. Quote: Knowing dark was imminent I took the obligatory photos although with the aid of a flash unit and then making up my mind to head skin and cape him out there and then under my "battery questionable " head lamp I got stuck into him. Then disaster! Placing my Green River skinning knife on the leafy carpet after an initial cut and prior to rolling the stag I simply couldn't find it after the roll over,frig it! EQ:
  19. Thanks guys. Appreciate all the comments 👍
  20. Great work, very impressive
  21. I like the clean, simple and fairly basic design in a practical shape, should be nice to use. Nice work.
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