Competition Cutter

[Scottishsmith24]

Here is a project I've been working on for the past few days I wanted to try my hand at making a cutting competition style knife and this was the result. I used 1084 and clay coated it for the hamon and the handle is a laminate of water buffalo horn, bocote, black ash burl, and dyed curly maple. I am going to be making a wooded South East Asian style of sheath for it and will post photos later when that is done. All comments are welcome and thanks for looking.

Robert

OAL: 14 1/2 inches

Blade Length: 10 inches

Blade width: 1 3/4 inch

Handle length: 4 1/2 inches

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[hunter63]

Cool looking project.......like the style.

[Rick]

That is a nice blade. That would be a great chopper.

[Scottishsmith24]

Thanks for the comments guys

[finallyME]

So, what makes it a "competition cutter"? Are there knife cutting competitions?

[crashdive123]

So, what makes it a "competition cutter"? Are there knife cutting competitions?

Oh yeah there are, and the good ones are very impressive.

[crashdive123]

@scotishsimith24 - are you competing or is it for somebody else? Either way, good luck.

[Rick]

Oh, my aching shoulders.

[Scottishsmith24]

Thanks guys and sadly no this one won't be in a competition unless the customer decides to use it as such. I was testing it on a hickory 2 x 4 and it went through it in about 45 seconds which I feel is a respectable time for hickory. I won't be in a real competition until I hopefully go to Blade Show over the next two years. But doing this style definitely taught me a lot about key design aspects to change on the next ones. Also here is a pictures with the lanyard attached.

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[Ranger F]

Nice!!!!!.......

[Scottishsmith24]

I got some time yesterday to put together a brief video of the cutting performance, I'd say it did reasonably well and would have done better if its user was more skilled and the set up better. I know I didn't set up the board properly for chopping but it was the best I could toss together for the video. But here's the video.

[Scottishsmith24]

So I had a visitor to my shop yesterday who let me try out their nice camera and I was able to get a couple of neat photos of the chopper and a couple of other knives. Hope you guys enjoy. Now there is no going back for me on getting a nice camera...

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