Thread: One of my knifes

This is a knife my little brother made for me a couple of years ago. (for free, as a result of loosing a bet)

The blade was made by a local blacksmith to my specifications. It is laminated, soft steel on the sides to make it easier to hone and less brittle, swedish file-steel in the middle to make the edge hard. That is the way we make all blades where I come from and they take a scary sharp edge.
Sheath is made from leather.
Handle (or scales maybe, this being a shave form) is made from ebony and ivory (he had an old piece laying around)
I don't really use it that much, since it is kind of hard to find any non-criminal uses for it













What do you guys think?

Very cool looking knife. I love the idea of the laminated blade. Looks like the maker knew his stuff. Kind of reminds me of a Finnish pukka knife.

Very nice rib sticker!

The laminated blades is a really good thing, it is the way they have made the blades at home for a long time. They have a long tradition of knife-making there, even though this particular one is very far from traditional.

That is very cool. I love the design of the handle, as well...seems like that Blacksmith knew what he was doing, alright.

If you don't mind my asking, when you say "where I come from", where is that exactly?

I come from Norway, a small place called Gjerstad in the County of Aust Agder. The Gjerstad coat of arms actually consists of three knifes.

Just living in Miami right now to get some education.

Non-criminal use, huh? Looks like a handy letter-opener to me! And it's never criminal to defend yourself.

Originally Posted by YesSheDoes!

Non-criminal use, huh? Looks like a handy letter-opener to me! And it's never criminal to defend yourself.

That depends on where you live and what you do to the criminal.

Over here if an unarmed criminal was a threat to you and you stabbed him you'd probably be convicted.

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

That depends on where you live and what you do to the criminal.

Over here if an unarmed criminal was a threat to you and you stabbed him you'd probably be convicted.

That's a good reason to always carry two knives!

Jordan

So you can give him one before you stab him? Interesting....I'll have to think about that.