My Knives - #05 Raptor Necker

Hey Steemians,

I just finished this cute little necker and I've thought why not share it. I have a decent documentation of the process from start to finish - so here it goes.

It all started a month or so ago when Bill (no that's not his name) contacted me via Gram because he was interested in buying this little fellow.

It was a necker I did a few years ago in Sanmai technique. It wasn't really a serious build, I was just playing around with forge welding and I've managed to weld this little piece together. It was not enough for a serious knife so I kinda played around with what little steel I had.

The result was a nice looking necker, cute but not really good enough for selling it. I did like the design and wanted to do a real knife using this, let's call it a prototype - but I never got around to it.

In comes Bill, he really likes it and wants to buy it.

There's no way that I would sell a knife that wasn't done right, so I've offered to build him a new one.

I did play around with the design a bit and I've refined some rough spots.
I did it in 1095 steel and I've used linen micarta with fibreglass pins and a stainless lanyard whole. And to mimic the Sanmai look a bit I did the hamon.

A blank cut out with paper stencil still on

Just after the hea-treatment

Rough grind with 60 grit

Somewhere half-way, I think it's 220 grit

Final polish with metla-polishing paste

Preping the scales

Everything glued together

Scales ready for profiling

And finally, it's done. It just needs a sharpening and my makers mark engraved.

Let me know what you think in the comment section. I would love to hear if you like it.

Thank you for your support, and see you soon.