Kingwood Experiment

[herbva]

I have to confess that I'd never heard of "kingwood" before our AAPK 2024 knives were released a few weeks back. I decided to try out kingwood on an old, beat up Camillus electrician knife with cheap plastic handles that was kicking around in my box of future patients. As you can see, I modified the screwdriver blade, turning it into a wharncliffe, and amputated a good part of the of the linerlock, turning it into a center liner/divider. The scales were epoxied on and had been rough sanded in the second pic. I'm quite impressed with kingwood, and find it to be a very dense, heavy, durable wood. For some reason, after I assembled the finished knife, the wharncliffe now has what I would call normal, good, hard snap, and the primary (spear) blade is simply a monster. I'm pretty sure it would easily chop off a poorly placed finger!

[bestgear]

I love it Herb - I’m glad the 2024 knife got your creative juices flowing in the right direction. I’ll be curious to see how the humid summers of Virginia will affect the handles. Was the hafting difficult due to the density of the wood?

I love resto-mods, great save!

[Bill DeShivs]

Kingwood is a member of the rosewood family.
It's one of my favorite woods.

[doglegg]

I have to confess that I'd never heard of "kingwood" before our AAPK 2024 knives were released a few weeks back. I decided to try out kingwood on an old, beat up Camillus electrician knife with cheap plastic handles that was kicking around in my box of future patients. As you can see, I modified the screwdriver blade, turning it into a wharncliffe, and amputated a good part of the of the linerlock, turning it into a center liner/divider. The scales were epoxied on and had been rough sanded in the second pic. I'm quite impressed with kingwood, and find it to be a very dense, heavy, durable wood. For some reason, after I assembled the finished knife, the wharncliffe now has what I would call normal, good, hard snap, and the primary (spear) blade is simply a monster. I'm pretty sure it would easily chop off a poorly placed finger!

Great work Herb.

[1967redrider]

Looking excellent as usual, Herb.

[herbva]

Looking excellent as usual, Herb.

Thanks John. How do you like my new knife holders?

[Jeffinn]

Nice work on that knife modification. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen Kingwood before but it really looks great on that knife.
Jeff

[PringleTree]

Masterful, not only the rehandle, but I like what you did with the screwdriver blade, too.

Chris J.

[1fartsmella]

Nicely done Herb.

[QTCut5]

I modified the screwdriver blade, turning it into a wharncliffe

That turned out great! Fantastic looking knife with a very useful blade configuration. Splendid work, Herb!

[herbva]

I love it Herb - I’m glad the 2024 knife got your creative juices flowing in the right direction. I’ll be curious to see how the humid summers of Virginia will affect the handles. Was the hafting difficult due to the density of the wood?

I love resto-mods, great save!

Hi Tom. To answer your question, this was my first time working with kingwood and I really like it. The hafting was a little slower going than something a bit less dense like bocote, but not as dense or difficult to work as bone.

[1967redrider]

Looking excellent as usual, Herb.

Thanks John. How do you like my new knife holders?

Oĥ snap, I meant to mention that too. Very nice!

[wlf]

Nice. It seems Kingwood could be called Rosewood's cousin with a little character.

[OLDE CUTLER]

The Kingwood looks great. Kind of reminds me of Bocote.

[Gtrclktr-351]

[Reverand]

Looks great!

[dlr110]

Award winning job!

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[TripleF]

Very knice!!!

[Ivoryman]

Niiiiiìiice work herbva and excellent on the Wharn. I can't tell it from Cocobolo, looks about like it. Beautiful knife now, great job.