here is one like my avitar on bladeforums

[Richard J]

i was asked about making a knife like in my avitar on bladeforums so here it is. overall its 10 3/4" long x 1 3/8" wide with a 6" long blade. its 3/16 1075. i still have to heat treat it yet which i hope to do sometime this week. i'll name it after the person that asked about it "if" they buy it :D.

[Shaolin]

Pretty nice.

[Noss]

Thats a damn nice looking blade Richard.:rockon:

[Richard J]

if he buys the knife i'm going to name it after his forum name. he's a member here too.

[Macgregor]

The finish on that one is great, I've held it.

[Richard J]

i wish you would have stuck around longer. i was going to sharpen it while you were here so you could check it out firsthand. today i sharpened it and shipped it out. i took a short video of it slicing newspaper. it reminds me of the old ginsu commercials where the guy was going through paper like a hot knife through butter.

[Richard J]

its bigger, its badder, its kalama II. 8" blade and 13" overall and 1 11/16" wide. it wont have a mirror finish but its not done yet so who knows.

[Richard J]

here is the video of kalama slicing newspaper http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43364157