All About Pocket Knives

Greetings everyone.


I have a pointy little thing freshly made to show
Its total length is 25.5 cm or 10 inches. The blade is 13 cm or 5 inches long, 5.5 cm or 2 inches wide and 5 mm or 0.2 inch thick. Forged of 5160 with full tang.
The handle is made of apple tree and forged iron.

Another fine piece of cutlery, Sir!

Steve Warden wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:43 pm Another fine piece of cutlery, Sir!

Thanks! Glad to you like it

That apple tree gave its life for a good cause. Lovely.

That one is extra nice!

Another fine example of your work!

hellize wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:40 pm Greetings everyone.


I have a pointy little thing freshly made to show
Its total length is 25.5 cm or 10 inches. The blade is 13 cm or 5 inches long, 5.5 cm or 2 inches wide and 5 mm or 0.2 inch thick. Forged of 5160 with full tang.
The handle is made of apple tree and forged iron.

Brother you do amazing work.

Beautiful!!!

Nice knife Csizmar. I was told in wood shop in High School that hand saws handles were made of apple wood. The teacher said it did not split and was good for saws and such things. True or not??

Harold

Wow, great looking knife!

Beautiful work!

doglegg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:09 am That apple tree gave its life for a good cause. Lovely.

Yeah, that piece of wood sure has awesome grain

Colonel26 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:28 am That one is extra nice!

Thanks a lot

samb1955 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:41 am Another fine example of your work!

Thanks a lot

edge213 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:56 am

hellize wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:40 pm Greetings everyone.


I have a pointy little thing freshly made to show
Its total length is 25.5 cm or 10 inches. The blade is 13 cm or 5 inches long, 5.5 cm or 2 inches wide and 5 mm or 0.2 inch thick. Forged of 5160 with full tang.
The handle is made of apple tree and forged iron.

Brother you do amazing work.

You are too kind Thanks!

TripleF wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:07 am Beautiful!!!

Glad you like it

stockman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:55 pm Nice knife Csizmar. I was told in wood shop in High School that hand saws handles were made of apple wood. The teacher said it did not split and was good for saws and such things. True or not??

Harold

Well, it is a beautiful wood, that's for sure. The grain is awesome most of the time.
But, I have to contradict your teacher on the split part. In my experience it likes to split and splinter a lot. I would never use it at a stick tang knife and neither for a saw handle.
Full tang is ok, since the steel carries the load anyway.

But maybe you have different apple species around there. Wow knows?!

Thanks Csizmar, I don't think our apple wood is any different. I thought looking at your knife, that the grain of it wood without support could easily split. It looked like long straight grain to me.

Thanks
Harold

stockman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:40 pm Thanks Csizmar, I don't think our apple wood is any different. I thought looking at your knife, that the grain of it wood without support could easily split. It looked like long straight grain to me.

Thanks
Harold

You're welcome
Yes, the grain is pretty straight, that is not the problem. I believe the issue stands in the thing that most fructifers aren't as dense as non fructifers like beech or black locust. But I could be right, I am no expert