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Name: AvatarBlade Length: 4 1/4"
OAL: 9 1/2"
Blade Material: 5160/15N20 Pool & Eye Damascus
Handle Material: Blue Fossilized Brain Coral
Winged Series:
Thank you and for getting me the DD! Also thank you all for the comments and favorites. I really appreciate it.
This is the knife that I donated to the 2012 Arkansas Knife Show which will be held on Feb 18th and 19th.
It is also the knife that is featured along with a picture of me, in the Knifemaker's Showcase section of the Blade magazine in the March 2012 issue which hit the newsstands in Jan, 2012. You can view the write up about the knife and me here:
In all honesty it was luck that it came out like this. If I did it with the same amount of metal and tried to get the same water-ish look again, it would probably look completely different. A lot of it had to do with the acid and the temperature/age of it. Which was super old. It took nearly 3 days of non-stop etch to get this and that was only because I kept forgetting about it. When I finally pulled it from it's acid bath and I cleaned it up, this was what I got.
I have found blue stabilized coral that looks like this again, but I will probably do a higher layer count that way my results are a little more reliable and more complex. I'm not sure if it will really take away from the look or not, but we will see.
Logan Pearce
www.pearceknives.com
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Thank you so much and I'm in the usa.
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oh sorry my bad your in USA nvm coz i was just wondering about owning a knife in UK need license i kinda wanted to practice knife throw..
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awesome work -- congrats
where will the knife show be held Feb 18th and 19th
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Gorgeous knife, but technically it's "Damascene" steel, (or Damascened.) not Damascus steel. Since we no long have the materials or technique to make REAL Damascus steel.
That aside, this is really interesting, and impressive work.
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I just call it what my association calls it and what magazines and publications call it, since people understand that better. But since the techniques and materials and all that are lost and we don't know how to recreate it, whose to say we haven't already and just don't know it? Not that it matters to me really, it's all just a name.
Thank you!
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ah, understandable. My brothers and I are kinda geeky about swords and metals.
though interestingly enough, they DO know what makes Damascus steel so powerful, and despite KNOWING we can't recreate it yet. Recently Scientists have found, and learned how to make something called "Carbon Nano-Tubes" which individually are one of the strongest structures for their size, when investigating under elecron microscope Damascus steel in comparison, it had ribbons of Carbon Nano-tubes in it. Somehow formed from the minerals and the forging process. The modern dillema being... the melting point of steel and iron is much higher than the break-down point of Carbon Nano-tubes. So no, we don't know how to make it.
But it's still facinating.
and I wasn't trying to be critical, just wasn't sure if you knew.
You're welcome! and keep up the good work.
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Lol, yeah I know. I've a library on steels, blacksmithing, knifemaking, etc. I have a lot of stuff on damascus and how it's a lost art and we can't make damascus. The other members of the ABS all love that stuff and keep trying to figure out how to recreate it. They are always real focused on making the best blades and have a few lectures and writings on it. A lot of them won't even call it dama-anything, they just call it laminated steel. Me personally, I just like how it looks. lol. No problem, I wasn't offended, I have this conversation a lot. A whole lot of people correct me when I say damascus, so it's nothing new. xD
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Hehehe, awesome! XD
I don't have the tools or know-how to forge or anything myself, but it's awesome to see people work on it. ^_^
Lol.
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I don't have the know-how to forge either. I just go in with a hammer and start swinging.
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I'd probably bash my own fingers doing that.
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;_; It happens to all of us. xD
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doesn't make it fun. XD the bashing fingers part, but at least you enjoy the forging? right?
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Oooooooo! Me want! XD OSM-est knife evar!
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It's a beautiful blade. Amazing. T_T
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Am I the only one that thinks its a bit funny that you're a knifemaker with the name Pearce? It just seems funny.
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Lol, I think it's funny as well. I mention it from time to time to people. My last name is spelled funny compared to other Pearce's which spell their name Pierce. I like the way my name is spelled better, but! just think if it was Pierce it'd even be spelled for stabbing people. o.O
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yeah lol. A little bit of uniqueness is good, but I still think its pretty funny... I love how things work out like that sometimes.
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I think it's awesome as well.
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Just $300?!
I've seen knives like this in stores for several thousand
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Yeah! The other knives that it will be featured with are at least double my price. I'm don't think my time is as valuable as those peoples. lol!
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i REALLY love this! just the texture alone strikes me as fascinating!
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the craftwork is amazing, but it seems like it'd be hard to grip!
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Thank you. I wish it had been a little thicker, I'm not a fan of thin looking knives.
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How interesting that someone with the name Pearce makes knives, sometimes used to stab things.
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The fluting of the blade is breathtaking! It looks like some sort of magical artifact!
What are the dimensions??
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Over all its about 8 inches. Thank you so much!
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