I use another philosophy. I surface grind my tang and ricasso exactly the same. I want both sides parallel and equal. I may then turn the knife 90...

Here's one with Moose Antler and one with cord wrap:

Here is another direction one can go with this style knife:

Steve, I wish you all the best, buddy. You are extremely talented. One thing that helps is to send a couple pictures along of each side of the knife...

I have found that many makers use the term Brute de Forge rather loosely and use it to describe nearly any knife that still has forge scale on it - ev...

I want my tang and ricasso full flat and parallel. At the first stage of truing everything up, I have no taper in the tang whatsoever. It is exactly...

I really like that. (You're rocking those hamons with the 1075.) I especially liked the handle material, but could not find the blocks on that web s...

What Daniel said - every knife needs a flat and parallel ricasso if it has one. I also surface all my fittings. And all my tooling and jigs that I...

[quote name='Ed Clarke' date='21 July 2016 - 07:51 AM' timestamp='1469109110' post='17731'] Hey Guys! An additional question on this topic:...

[quote name='Kevin R. Cashen' date='10 June 2016 - 05:37 AM' timestamp='1465558626' post='17235'] On lower layer counts I get around the carbon dif...

Don't get no better.

Welcome aboard.

Wow. Impressive. I love the knife and the obvious thought that went into it. Great execution.

[quote name='Tucker_Parris' date='06 July 2016 - 01:39 PM' timestamp='1467833943' post='17573'] Ok finally bit the bullet and ordered some Parks 50 ...