My weekend Knife class with Little Wolf Ironworks

[Wade Burns]

This weekend I took my friend and his son to a knife class with Cody Adolphson of Little Wolf Ironworks. I will show a few photos in succession of my Damascus knife I made. I’ll do it in a couple posts as I’m not sure how many photos I can put in a single post this is from the stage where I cut the steel into small blocks, stacked, and welded them to forge my blade. I then drilled a series of divots into the blank and then reforged it to make raindrop pattern Damascus.

 

[Wade Burns]

 

[Wade Burns]

 

[Wade Burns]

This is the final stage of final sanding and oiling the desert ironwood I used. I also made a sheath with crocodile leather. All in all it was a fun three days! Hope you enjoyed the photos and journey.

 

[Godfather]

Very cool blade!!!

 

[Wade Burns]

Very cool blade!!!

Thanks!

 

[Godfather]

Love a great Damascus knife - great shape as well

 

[HowieR]

That is friggin awesome, I will take one also, the wood on the grips ----spectacular

 

[Wade Burns]

Love a great Damascus knife - great shape as well

Yeah me too! It was fun making a different type and style. Last year I made feather Damascus bird and trout knife. This year I experimented with a skinner for hunting. I modified a new design Cody was going to try. I put more curve to the spine and handle. I really liked how it came out. Next year I will try my hand at twist Damascus. I do have enough metal left over from this class to forge out one more knife, so I’ll do that later this summer. Here is my knife from last year.

 

[Wade Burns]

That is friggin awesome, I will take one also, the wood on the grips ----spectacular

lol thanks! I thought it looked pretty cool prior to finishing out but had no idea the grain would look that good! I have done this class a couple years. Every year I have taken a couple of my good friends I hunt and hang out with to it for a Christmas present. Everyone has had a great time and came away with a cool knife they can use and pass down to their kids. I don’t have kids so Garret my friends son gets to come along on our various adventures like this. Like a typical kid he was kind of like what are we doing here. By the end of the class he was excited as heck to use his knife next bird season.