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Originally Posted by Doug Lester
I can see why your customer is excited by the knife. I wouldn't know the "dog star" pattern if it bit me but I love the way it came out. If I wanted to nit pick I'd say that it deserved a better wood than maple; maybe some desert ironwood.
Doug
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I would tend to agree, but this is for a local guy, a couple of towns over from me, and we're all about Northern Michigan up here. He chose the piece of maple himself, cut from a tree on his property, on his son's sawmill... you get the picture. When he said he had the perfect piece of maple for the handle, I thought he might have a cool burl or something, but he ended up giving me a plain old board. It has some cool coloration to it... I only oiled it, so the dark color is natural to the wood, but there really isn't much a cool grain pattern to it. His knife though... his choice.