High layer count bowie and a damascus recurved fighter

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Phillip Patton

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Steel: 1075/15n20 in a twisted W's pattern

Hardness: 58 RC

Blade length: 6-7/8"

Total length: about 12"

Blade thickness: a bit more than 3/16"

Handle material: cocobolo

Fittings: damascus. The guard is from the same billet as the blade.

THIS ONE IS SOLD PENDING PAYMENT

I can take paypal, check, or MO. Please send paypal to 2000pjp at gmail dot com
If using a check, allow 10 business days for it to clear before shipment. Please make sure knife is still available before sending payment. :-)

Sheath is not made yet, but it will come with one.

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Thanks for looking!
 
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The Devil's Brigade would be proud of it.

I like it a lot.
 
Thanks for the comments, fellas!

I don't want to have three threads on the front page at once, so I'm adding onto this thread a bowie I finished yesterday.

The blade is a combination of W2 and wrought iron. It has over 25,000 layers. That's not a typo, it is 25,000. At that layer count, you can't see the layers, like on a regular damascus blade, so I tried to heat treat this one with a hamon, but it didn't turn out as interesting as I'd hoped. You can see some of the wood grain pattern from the welding though.

The blade is 9-1/8" long, and about 5/16" thick at the guard, with some serious distal taper. The clip is sharpened, and the blade is finished to 1000 grit. The guard is stainless, with the insides of the lugs mirror finished. The handle is ironwood.

This one is now sold!

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Hi again folks,
I have yet another knife available. This one was a custom job, but the customer, alas, didn't have the money when he thought he would, so we're going to try again later. So this one is available now. Making-of thread here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1158671-Fighter-WIP

Steel: 1086/15n20 in a twisted laddered W's pattern

Hardness: 58-ish

Blade length: 9"

Total length: about 14"

Blade thickness: 1/4"

Handle material: desert iwronwood

Fittings: stainless



I can take paypal, check, or MO. Please send paypal to 2000pjp at gmail dot com
If using a check, allow 10 business days for it to clear before shipment. Please make sure knife is still available before sending payment. :-)

I'll take and post some pictures of the sheath.

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Thanks for looking!
 
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Clarp said:
Does the # of layers affect the knife's performance and tenacity?
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Nope. Not in my opinion anyway. Not compared to a mono steel anyway. But for a mixture of W2 and wrought iron, higher layers is better because wrought is a dirty material, and the repeated welding and drawing out refines it. When grinding and sanding this blade, it was so clean it looked like mono steel.
 
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