Latest build – Recurve bowie

• Overall length 18″
• Blade length 12.5″
• Blade thickness 7/32″. Thats halfway between 3/16 and 1/4 😉
• W2 tool steel
• Differential hardened blade with hamon
• Bronze guard and pommel
• Desert Ironwood handle

This knife was a first in a couple ways.

One is that its the largest knife I’ve made to date 🙂

Next is that I smelted the bronze myself in my small foundry furnace. This is classic bronze made with 88% copper and 12% tin, and then I cast the parts in sand molds.