CS Shadow

[ea42]

Hi folks! Haven't been around to visit in a while, WOW y'all are posting some nice projects!!
I found a couple of extra barlow scales lying around the shop today without bolsters, so I figured I'd see how the pattern would look as a single blade shadow knife. Here it is with red linen micarta covers:

Eric

[orvet]

Very Nice Eric!
I seem to have missed the fact that Canal Street was making Barlows.
That is one new knife I just mught buy!
What is the steel in that blade?

Excellent work!


It is so nice and slim it seems to want to slide right into my pocket!

[philco]

Nice job Eric. I'd buy one of those.

[glennbad]

That is sweet, Eric!!!!

[ea42]

Thanks guys!!

Dale, the blade is 14-4CrMo, a high end stainless from Latrobe. It's right on par with 154CM. Don't know if it'll ever see its way to production in this form, although to me it's ideal as a tough user AND practically unnoticeable in your pocket. Maybe I'll just have to do my own SFO
<---That's how the boss would be looking at me if I brought it up

Eric

[basser5]

Hey Eric...can you make me one with a spear blade?....Thanks

[Jody744]

Nice job Eric. I'd buy one of those.

Phil, you would buy any canal street.....
I, on the other hand, would not.
But that is the best looking canal street i have seen!
I do like the barlow by CS, hoping to handle some at Blade this year
(yanno, that Tom hasn't already bought...)

[whitebuffalo58]

Clean, simple lines, tough and beautiful! Very nicely done!!

WB

[orvet]

Thanks guys!!

Dale, the blade is 14-4CrMo, a high end stainless from Latrobe. It's right on par with 154CM. Don't know if it'll ever see its way to production in this form, although to me it's ideal as a tough user AND practically unnoticeable in your pocket. Maybe I'll just have to do my own SFO
<---That's how the boss would be looking at me if I brought it up

Eric

Thanks Eric, I thought that might be what the blade was.
I don't think I have used a knife with that steel.
Does it hold an edge as well as the Canal Street D-2?
I have a pinch lock & a Canittler that are users, and both hold an edge extremely well, as well as the early Japanese ATS-34 from my experience. Some of the more recent Japanese knives I have used with ATS-34 were not as good as the first ones I got.

I am really curious about the 14-4CrMo, I will have to try one. I think you told me once it was better than the D-2.
Let me know if you make your own line of SFOs like that one, it is a work horse for sure!

[Capt. Farrel]

Ah, that looks too good! Great color on that handles as well.