"The OG"

[pease]

A 4.5 blade stacked would be great.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Redmeadow Pro Tip:

"The Stacked Leather Zone" thread will produce. If ever a thread needed hammered with conversation, that be the one. I call upon thee to raise the white whale!

 

[Rupestris]

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Now there's an OG right there. The first mini cowbell in steel on one of Scott's sweet cutting boards!

 

[cbach8tw]

Redmeadow Pro Tip:

"The Stacked Leather Zone" thread will produce. If ever a thread needed hammered with conversation, that be the one. I call upon thee to raise the white whale!

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just means do not get so tied up in your work!!

 

[mitch4ging]

Damn fine craftsmanship all the way around in that photo!!

 

[91bravo]

So, here's an early Redmeadow creation, back from just prior to the birth of this subforum. It's unnamed, but I'm calling it "The OG". Why? Well because according to Mr. John Conner, this knife had a lot of firsts in its creation. It was his first stick tang (which I believe also means it was his first peened tang), his first soldered guard (it's a fitted guard, per John, below), and his first stacked leather! The name just fits IMO.

It's high-polished O1, with copper guard and butt, and African Blackwood, maroon micarta, and Aluminum spacers. The copper has taken on a really, really nice patina over the past ~5 years.

There haven't been too many pictures of this beauty posted here, so I thought I'd remedy that injustice. I'll take some more tomorrow, hopefully in some better light.

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A little fill-flash on this one.
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In the fresh Phlox coming up in the flower garden...
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The stacked leather is nice!