This beautiful piece of workmanship is owned by a buddy of mine. I don’t think it’s ever been resharpened so the bevel is original and I tried to do minimal work to keep it true to the design by matching the existing tapered bevel as close as possible.
I’m sure to have it back on the bench further down the road, so for a first go around I just documented the angles and put a 1000 grit edge on tapering down to almost nothing at the tip.
Wow! That’s a beautiful knife! Damascus bolsters and the burl in the scales is fantastic. Did you pick up anywhere who made the thing?
BTW; A little tacky putting the Sharpmaker label in the background. LOL 
Sorry Tom, I had the post moved to photos at same time you posted. You can Google Chris Peterson to read more about his work. The bolster material I found very interesting…
Well I kinda mucked up this post by accidentally placing it on the Welcome Mat, thanks to moderator for moving it over here.
For Tom and others interested here is a link to full description of this knife makers work on this piece:
http://shop.leescutlery.com/CHRIS-PETERSON-KNIFE-DOUBLE-DAMASCUS-BURL-CUSTOM-FIXED-BLADE-1197.htm
At the request of Cliff I moved the topic to the knife photos forum, but for some reason the replies still came in to the old topic.I’ve now moved them here as well.
The linked page says that he uses two different pieces of damascus to make the blade. In Cliff’s photos, it looks like there’s actually three pieces. I wonder how he welds them together, as I don’t see a forging line. I’m guessing that he’s silver-soldering them after HT. Hard not to anneal the edge to dead soft if that’s the case. I have a tube of special paste you use to protect adjacent areas when you apply heat; maybe he used something like that. In any case, beautiful work, but mostly I’m impressed by the guy’s creativeness.
