A few pics of a little hunter I build last week. This is what I started with...albeit the piece of 1084 was smaller than what is pictured. After I forged the blade, I filed and rounded the spine and bottom of the ricasso and left all those surfaces with the file finish. I glued it all up and used a black phenolic plug for the back end to hide the connection.
(https://i.imgur.com/7y6pwRQl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/acgg33fl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/fcbUHlcl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/646CU29l.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Zu79EVRl.jpg)
I like that a lot!
Murray
That looks like it needs to do some work!
Thats a great looking knife!
Sweet Brad. Nice work