My Knives #16 - a duck(bird) and trout (ish) 🦆🐡

Hello dear Stemians,

And now something completely different!

So this knife is a bit of an oddity for me, first of all, it's not a cooking related knife, and secondly, it is my first-ever stainless steel knife.
OK, I've been known to do a knife or two that was not meant for the kitchen. Remember Bowie, Necker, or the Caveman that can be seen in My Hobby post.

Using a stainless steel(SS) is, on the other hand, is something I've never done. I've talked at length about why I don't use SS, aside from the fact that my personal preference is carbon steel, one of the reasons I don't use SS is heat-treatment.
Namely, the rule of thumb is - the more complex the steel alloy is, the more complicated heat treatment it.
And it can go into SF with some of the super steels. And I simply don't have the equipment for something like that.

There is a way around this, you can send the knife to be heat treated to a professional. And, that's actually a good way to get quality TH without investing in expensive equipment.

But, it kinda goes against what my idea of how I want to make my knives - all me, every single step of the build.

I'm not saying it's the right way of thinking, nor do I look down on guys who outsource their TH or any other part of knifemaking. I'm just saying that's the way I want to do my knives.

Anywho, 12C27 - the steel I've used for this knife is probably the simplest SS there is. And being simple it was just on the border of what I can do in my workshop. I actually got it as a gift from a friend for the last Christmas, and after seating in the corner for half a year I've said - fuck it, let's do it.

Uh, that's a looong intro.

The Knife

You've probably seen this knife in a post of mine in early July. I did a giveaway for my IG followers and decided to include Steemians in it - 1000 followers (almost) GIVEAWAY!!!.

For one reason or another, it took me two months to finish it and as it's sailing across the ocean I wanted to take you through the build process.

So here we go!

Waiting for it's turn to be cut out

Just out of the HT

Starting the primary bevel

Done with the primary bevel and the Spanish choil

Done with the hand-sanding

Starting to work on the handle

Handle from rough to the final coat of oil

The Final Product

_{Sorry, again no DSLR pics}

And that's it.
Thanks for stopping by, and see you soon with another knife or something...