Lignum vitae d2 neck knife

[neill116]

I recently bought a neck knife from Shing but i wanted to put wood handles on it so i asked him to do 1/4" pin holes and a lanyard hole.
I had a nice piece of Lignum Vitae waiting for the right blade and i got some stainless mosaic pins from Texas knife supplies and the lanyard tube came as a result of lemoneyewash's generosity.
The wood has quite different colour depending on which side you look at and has lovely flowing grain.
I am currently working on a suitable sheath and am thinking of incorporating a left over piece of the original wood slabs, we'll see

Anyway here it is and i hope you like it...

Here it is alongside my Shing folder which arrived last week, it feels a bit like Christmas at the moment

cheers
Neill

[MotorbikeMan]

Looks very nice. I've got some Lignum Vitae as well that I'm putting on a Felleskap 2 blade and it's interestiong stuff to work with. Did you use anything to finish it?

[neill116]

It seems to generate it's own oil as i worked it but i still finished it with wood oil and a light polish with ren wax.

cheers
Neill

[MotorbikeMan]

It seems to generate it's own oil as i worked it but i still finished it with wood oil and a light polish with ren wax.

cheers
Neill

I noticed it being very oily as I cut it. The only bits I've polished so far are the very front pieces of the slabs and all I did was go through the grades of wet & dry to 1200 and then just polished with a felt polisher on a dremel. It came up with a glass like finish so I'm hoping I'll be able to get the same finish on the rest of the handle.

[Isshogai]

Beautiful knives - Both have more than a touch of class I think!

[Singeblister]

Very nice work i like it
Got a chunk of that wood as well it looks great

[Stew]

Did you find the lignum really hard to work? I've always imagined it to be extremely tough stuff.

[mojofilter]

As far as I know, there is not much point to oiling Lignum, because it is so oily itself that it wont really absorb anything.

[neill116]

Thanks for the kind comments guys

Stew, i didnt find it particularly tough to work although it did clog up the sand paper a bit when i was finishing shaping.

Mojo, i know what you're saying as i did find it pretty oily but it did soak up a few coats of oil which darkened the colour very slightly, dont think it's done any harm though...

cheers
Neill

[Inspector71]

Very cute knife Neill. I'm a sucker for short utilities, neckers etc anyway but that really is a cracker. Top job.

Cheers,
Rod

[Lord Farquhar]

Very good.

[richard ball]

thats top bannanas m8

[manofthewood]

That is stunning mate, your best work to date IMHO the lignum came out really 'strong'...I will have a look at that this weekend.

[Wrangler]

Beautiful knife and good job done on the handle!

How come I did miss this fantastic folder? Looks GREAT!

[BorderReiver]

Very nice indeed.

"Here it is alongside my Shing folder which arrived last week, it feels a bit like Christmas at the moment"



It would have been a very good Christmas too