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Offline LRB

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New Ball Grip Knife
« on: April 17, 2010, 12:17:31 AM »
  Fresh out of the shop. This is my English trade knife blade, but with a full tapered tang. 7 1/4" blade of 01 vanadium steel, with bone grips. It is about 3/32" where the grip meets the blade, then tapers in both directions. The tang at the butt is about 1/32". Weighs in at about 5oz. Still have to make a sheath and age everything. Hope you enjoy a look.



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Offline tallbear

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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2010, 12:19:45 AM »
Beautiful Wick!!!!!!!!!I really like it!!

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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2010, 12:39:20 AM »
Wick,
Great looking knife as always. 
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2010, 12:59:59 AM »
Wick-ed nice  :D
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2010, 02:02:04 AM »
OK Wick,

This just isn't fair.  You're making me really anxious for mine!!

Beautiful as usual.
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2010, 02:31:53 AM »
Looking good, Wick. Bone sure makes a beautiful grip.
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2010, 05:05:02 AM »
I wouldn't age it- looks great as new! It will age fast enough with a few years of use. Great job- thin blades are hard to do well.
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2010, 07:26:46 PM »
I wouldn't age it either.  Frontiersmen didn't carry aged weapons that were new. 

LRB...lovely knife.
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2010, 09:33:35 PM »
 Great looking knife Wick, can't wait to see what the set will look like. What kind of bone is that, is it from one piece of bone or two?

 Thanks, Tim C. 
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2010, 12:36:39 AM »
  I assume it is water buffalo. They were a set of slabs I picked up at a knife show.
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2010, 02:19:39 AM »
I really like it the way it stands now . Is this one for a customer or something your going to sell ?
Steve
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2010, 04:39:06 AM »
An elegant knife!!! The proportions ar beautiful, as is the workmanship of course.....Hmm I want one like that!!
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2010, 12:49:14 AM »
  I have more bone, but the waiting time may be around 6/8 months or more.
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2010, 04:16:33 PM »
Wick,
  Ya done it again!! Damnfine  knife! I just want to comment on your touch mark. The Maltese cross,is that an old toolmakers emblem or does it specifically mean a "knifemaker"? Thanks for posting.
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2010, 07:05:19 PM »
Or does it mean "Templum Es Inter Nos". Hmmmm.
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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2010, 08:35:28 PM »
Beautiful knife.

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Re: New Ball Grip Knife
« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2010, 01:27:14 AM »
  Thanks Tom, and everyone else, but I have to give some credit to a customer of mine. He said he would be interested in a knife he was thiking of, if I took grip A, and combined it with blade B. I put it on paper, and there it is in steel and bone. It was one of those things so obvious, I don't know if I would ever have seen it. He has been amply rewarded. Thanks again to all.
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