Curly birch knife

[JohanB]

This is a new knife of mine. One of the bit more "fancy"....

As usual a blade by Trond...... The knife is made of a nice piece of curly birch, alternative ivory and a slice of red vulcanized fiber....The sheath is raw hind leather with pauting on it. The Trond blade is a 3 layer laminated with forged finish and polished, razorsharp

The knife is coloured and oiled in my own special way, giving it an "old" look...





And yes, i know my keyboard is ugly. Its lots of leather dye

Price: £80, Included shipping!

At the moment i accept cheques and money transfer from bank to bank
Further payment details will be said when order......

Thanks

Johan

[Chux]

Does it have a swedge or are my eyes on the wonk?

[lemoneyewash]

You know Johan, I've been looking at your work for a while now and have always been very impressed . But.... I'm becoming more and more smitten by 'Scandi' knives (I only own 1, so far, by Otto with a blade by Mr Nielsen). They work (I make walking sticks from hazel, ash, blackthorn etc) very well indeed, the blade is very easy to shapen and holds the edge very well. But.....
Why do you offer such a NICE knife when I'm completely flamin' skint eh ?!!!!!
Honestly Johan, you have an uncanny knack with this lately : .
Errr... do you know my bank manager ?

[JohanB]

Ehehe. Thanks for these replies. I am not sure what you mean by "swedge".....
I will take more pictures if wanted....

Cheers

Johan

[Chux]

A swedge is a false edge on the back of the blade (Chux ducks under table to avoid being corrected)

Why do you offer such a NICE knife when I'm completely flamin' skint eh

Its a common phenomenom I experience, I don't think it is a specific relationship with any one manufacturer, I'm just always skint. Still, gives the moths somewhere to live :o

[lemoneyewash]

"Its a common phenomenom I experience, I don't think it is a specific relationship with any one manufacturer, I'm just always skint. Still, gives the moths somewhere to live :o[/QUOTE]



A brotherhood in 'blade poverty' eh?

[Trond]

Chux it is a half way swedge, the blade i quite thick, and the swedge is not sharp, but it lightens the blade a litle, it is a bad thing i picked up while looking at some sweedish blades, and i made a few that way

[Trond]

Oh and Johan this is really a good knife, now you can stop making knives, or else you are going to make my knives look like sh*te next to yours

[Chux]

Chux it is a half way swedge, the blade i quite thick, and the swedge is not sharp, but it lightens the blade a litle, it is a bad thing i picked up while looking at some sweedish blades, and i made a few that way

Don't apologise Trond, I like swedges

[narsil]

Swedge-tastic, I recenty aquried a JohanB knife and it is excellent, get them while you can is my advice. Equal praise should go to trond for his fantastic blades,you can get them razor sharp by just looking at them hard. I cannot rate these knives highly enough, and his prices are just silly, its worth twice that.

[Chux]

It is very tempting, swedge on a scandi, mmm.

[JohanB]

Tho i must admit i like thick blades with swedges. Looks a bit "fancy", in my oppinion tho. And Thanks For your little review narsil!

[Herr_Mingus]

nice blade johan

[ANDYLASER]

That is an excellent knife Johan, I particularly like the patterning to the curly birch, it is quite unusual. And the price is very tempting. Unfortunately this months funds appear to be tied up on a different thread.

[JohanB]

Unfortunately this months funds appear to be tied up on a different thread.

Gather all your money and buy my next one :lmao: