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| Here is the knife I made my wife it has a Roller bearing core and is laminated with wirerope on each side. The handle is deer bone with leather and copper spacers with black walnut. with a wire rope guard. The etch on the wirerope is faint but it give the steel an apearance of having a wood grain running through it. The knife sheath is black walnut and when finished will have a leather wrapped tip and To completely describe it I will put my sketch on this page. |
| Here is the close up of the pattern. The wavy line along the edge is the roller bearing core. The roller bearing is much higher in carbon content than the wire rope and the addition of the chromium makes it a deeper hardenning steel and much more difficult to work which is the reason for the separation in the picture. Working the steel too cold causes the much tougher roller bearing core to be harder to forge than the softer wirerope (which is also a high carbon steel, just not as tough as the chromium alloy bearing). So it is easy to split the layers apart again so the proper forging temperature is very important. |