Handmade art.

Larry

Gert, your work is amazing!

And another fine example for sure.
Great work!

Thanks very much for your kind comments!

And on we go, with yet another 5" blade Randall Nr. 2 inspired letter opener. This will be a unusual one.

The blade roughly cut out of a 4,4 mm thick piece of Lohmann Niolox stainless tool steel.

Contours filed and scale removed.

Filing the bevels.

All bevels rough filed, ready for the fine file and sanding prior to heat treat.

Nice looking profile, clean lines and symmetric.

Sure is looking good (as usual!).
Very nice.

Silver soldered the nickel silver guard, MIG welded the stainless m5 thread to the tang and generally assembled all the necessary bits and pieces to make this knife.

The knife will get a handle made of Birchbark with sambar stag/ black fiber spacers and a nickel silver guard and pommel.