You are not alone, and for good reason. Ironwood is almost a perfect wood for handles. Dense, hard, beautiful, and real oily and stable. Its also hell on belts and smells strong. Its a burnt cofee kind of smell, and it sticks to you.
Thank you for your sacrifice, Mr. Roy. I'll take you covered in burnt coffee/oily/Ironwood dust, and the destruction of your sanding belts all day long, to keep me in these prizes. Should I just set up a direct deposit account?
Hahaha. Maybe I'll just bring you an apprentice. His name is Luca, and he says someday he wants to work with you and Allen. And that Phillip dude. But I suspect it's really about Ivy.
OK Tony, it took me a while to dig through my collection and sort things out, however, here are a few pics of my personal obsession. I'm going to start with my absolute favorite, a FB Bushcrafter in CPM-154 stainless:
Here are the rest of my Fiddlebacks sporting Ironwood. Thanks goes out to Phil, Jerry and Will for making a few of these available. BTW, the one that got me started was the Sneaky Pete in IW Burl:
Here is a "His & Hers" set from Allen in bolstered IW Burl:
Thanks guys, you both got it right, the burl on the Sneaky is something special as well. As I said, that's the knife that got me started down this particular rabbit hole. When Mother Nature & the Maker gets it right, it can be magical as we've seen with many of the awesome knives that have been shown in this thread !
After we PMd I saw this post and thought, "Well, I should probably not hold my breath to ever get that KEB back." followed by "I have better luck to pest Phillip to make another in the next year or so."
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