Here’s a knife I just finished. I gave this one a nice smooth 600-grit hand-rubbed finish on the blade so it would look a bit cleaner than some of the simple belt-finished knives I’ve made lately. Hand-rubbing is slow and tedious work but it does look nice when it’s done well. Strangely enough, however, when I told the wifey I was headed out to the shop to rub one out the other night, she looked at my kinda funny, then just rolled her eyes and walked away. I guess she prefers a belt finish…

The handle on this one is made out of bone micarta scales held on with epoxy and slightly flared stainless steel thong hole tubing. You don’t even want to know what the wife said when I started talking about my thong hole.

The flats and edges still retain a forge finish and provide a nice contrast, both in color and texture, to the hand-rubbed blade. Forged from 1/4″ 1084 carbon steel, the thinly ground blade is 5″ long and the overall knife is just shy of 10″.  This one’s quite pointy, and VERY sharp. Much like my wife….