Knife #5, Bowie, full tang Pics

[Mohillbilly]

It's been awhile since I had time to finish a knife.  This is # 5.  5160 steel, forged blade with stock removal tang.  Bloodwood scales and steel pins.  Blade is 6 1/2" long and tang is 5 1/2" long.  Spine is fileworked and ricasso has choil cutouts. Also the first with my own touchmark.   Man this is addictive.
Bret

[Montauks]

Sweet

[Leftieshot]

VERY NICE!!!  Whats the purpose of the cut outs in the choil?  And why 2 of them?

[drewsbow]

Very Nice :0)

[ber643]

Nice work on that Bowie. How or what did you use to put your mark on with?

[Mr Vic at the cabin]

 being a big knife fanatic i would say you did good !!

[farmboy]

Very nice work. thanx for the pics, its encouraging to see others work.  

Knife making is deffinately addicting and is causing me some domestic trouble...haha, not really but i have to watch the amount of time I spend in the shop!

Take care,
Scott

[el oso]

Nice work I like the handle shape.

[Mohillbilly]

Thanks guys, I love this stuff.  The touchmark is a hardened steel that I had made with my initials.  As I am normalizing the steel before quenching I use the stamp and 3 lb hammer and imprint the intials with the stamp.  I had this one a little crooked but will hopefully do a bit better on the next. The choil cutout is to aid in sharpening the knife.  It allows you to get the sharpening angle all the way to the end of the edge.  I put two on because I liked how it looked.     Thanks again,
Bret

[OconeeDan]

Looks great!

[skullworks]

Super nice knife there!