Brian Isakson

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First, there's nothing wrong with railroad spike knives, the ones I use are high carbon. Second, please show me a design where the handle is wrapped the same way. Third I say it's exotic because I plan to make it my own twist on a hilt commonly seen on a rapier (an exotic sword). Lastly I don't at all claim to own rights, be the first to ever think of this I've just never seen any videos or articles on this wrap. I just want to post an instructional article on something I've never seen before.

That's a good Idea, I just say that because doing a twist would be incredibly hard to keep straight by hand. Doing it with two wrenches would work but I don't think I could keep it straight. Besides it feels good in my hand and fits well as is. I'm happy with the way the handle turned out.

I knew from an early age that I wanted to go into a designing field, I have also really always wanted to try blacksmithing, well this is how I connected them. I set out to think of a knife design nobody has ever done before, obviously I can't patent this design and don't really want to. I want people to be able to do this! Although I do want people to see what I came up with. I don't want to "forbid them" from making a knife like this. I do not have a YouTube channel so I can't make and post a video. Mainly I just Don't want someone else getting a patent to keep people from doing this. So this is what I came up with: start with a railroad spike, first I will draw out the blade, it will probably be pretty average looking. Flatten out the head of the spike. Then I will start evenly drawing out the handle until it gets to be about a 1/4" in diameter (At this point it should be pretty long). From there I'll bend it at 5" - 5 1/2" up the handle and curl it back towards it's self and start wrapping the handle about 3/4" - 1" in diameter all the way to the blade. That should form a nice grippy handle. Then if there's metal left I will wrap a gaurs around the start of the blade (to protect the hand from slipping). If there is still metal left I will bend it around over top of the Knuckles. How much metal is left will entirely depend on how well I can it out. I am posting this for three reasons. One, as an instructional article for something I think is really great. Two, so I can get the credit for what I deserve as (as far as I know) I'm The First person to come up with this. Lastly, I want your opinions on this extremely exotic handle. Thank you, Brian. Ps. I am not an artist but that's what I'm going for.

Hello I am 15 years old and I'm a beginning blacksmith. I've always liked knives so it seemed fitting that I would make a knife as one of my first projects. I looked online to see some examples of railroad spike knives and all of the are left kind of rustic looking. That's why I decided to do a nice polished look. I didn't have a vise set up at the time I made it so I didn't put a twist of any kind in the handle. I just want to know what people think of this shape and style. Any opinions at all are greatly appreciated. Thank you.