New neck knife project on the bench

A new neck knife project I started. A damasteel stainless damascus blade, 80 mm, by Peter Abel, spine thickness 2 mm, roe deer antler handle. I have yet to decide what bolster it will get and I am thinking about bone or buffalo horn or Mammoth ivory... we´ll see. It will see some incrustation at the pommel, too, maybe some amber...

Forging at the Bethaus Smithy- and a new damascus neck knife / whittling knife

 I met Volker the other day at the Bethaus smithy to have a chat about the oncoming season and had the opportunity to do some quick forging, and that´s what came out (top to bottom): Leaf handle knife (spring steel), little teenie weenie whittling seven-bar damascus (tank bearing, tank cannon), and an integral En-Nep from silver steel.

 I also had quite a bit of good natured talk with Volker. Missed you, dude!

 The damascus blade cried: I want to be made! on top of its lungs, so I set to work immediately;-). Stag antler, and the coin shows how small the blade is.

 Made a sheath for it with some jewellry.

 The antler, tanned.

 The spine varies from 0,8 to 2,4 mm in thickness.

 I fitted a stone I found on the banks of the river Rhine for jewelry... like the colour.

 The other side of the blade.

 overall details...