Landenberger custom

[terryl308]

Just finished this one up, used some of my pre-ban ivory for the handle with mosaic pins, hand stitched sheath , and 1080 high carbon steel blade. thanks for looking, terry

[#goldpan]

Nice work Terry!

[kootenay joe]

Terry, you are a talented man; what a fine knife.
I very much like ivory handles for looks as well as comfort. Ivory needs it's edges to be radiused to properly fit the hand. The vintage knives always have the ivory edges rounded. More recent ones sometimes leave the edges square.
Can you post a 'spine shot' picture ? I would like to see thickness of steel as well as of ivory.
kj

[terryl308]

Roland, I think I have a pic of the top of the knife, this one is a more square shape but I have made them round also. I used a piece of "shop roll" sand paper and used it like a shoe shine movement to round off the square corners but this one is still a little square, the ivory is about 1/4" thick , started out about 5/16" and has a red fiber spacer between the ivory and the full tang.

[kootenay joe]

Thanks Terry. I look for thin handle slabs as my hands are a bit smaller than average. Your knife looks like it might fit a larger hand better than mine.
kj

[philco]

Terry that is for sure a fine looking knife you have created. Excellent work.

[treefarmer]

What Philco said!

[edge213]

Yep, it's a beauty

[steve99f]

Terry,

Really nice work on that knife. I was looking at your maker's mark. Is the number your pattern number or SN? I see it also carries over to the sheath, which, BTW, also looks great.

[terryl308]

Steve, the number is about the number of knives I've made, it's really a few more than that, but each knife has a serial number plus the same number on my sheath. Thanks for the comments, Terry

[FRJ]

Very nice, Terry.