Smoulering ember

[Dave Barker]

Tbis is one that was made for one of the guys over at BB.

the balde is a temper coloured damascus by poul strand.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/bruks/Smouldering%20ember/smoulder012.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/bruks/Smouldering%20ember/smoulder010.jpg

The handle is highly polished ebony at each end (very dark but the grain is visible if you look for it; kinda like looking for the milky way in the sky), black and white fibre spacers and a curly birch centre section. On the right hand side of the rear section of ebony is one of clcuckow's mosaic pins.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/bruks/Smouldering%20ember/smoulder003.jpg

The curly birch section is is dyed mulitple times to produce a variation on my " trademark" Fires of Hell pattern. True to the name the pattern does bear a distinct resemblance to a smouldering piece of wood in a fire.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/bruks/Smouldering%20ember/smoulder009.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/bruks/Smouldering%20ember/smoulder009.jpg

This was a huge challenge to make due to the glue bond and the temperatures needed to bake to coloured layers into this pattern.

I think it turned out ok. What do you think?

[tenbears10]

Looks fantastic Dave. I really like the diagonal join between the woods and the double spacer. The blade is top quality as well.

Bill

[hootchi]

Wonderful, exquisit, beautiful, spectacular, amazing, fabulous, stunning.....

:biggthump

[greg2935]

That is a fantastic piece of work, well done.

Greg

[zambezi]

That is a very handsome blade indeed.

[TheViking]

Looks very nice to me. Well done. :biggthump

[Snufkin]

Thats lovely, nice flowing lines on the handle. I'm not usually a fan of dyed wood but that birch looks really nice. Top job :biggthump