Frank Turley Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 (edited) A friend wanted a paring knife; then a slightly larger one. A month later, he wanted a "French chef's knife" and finally a Bowie. I haven't made too many knives, but with the aid of my journeyman helper, Taylor Vallot, we got them done. The sheaths are of rawhide shaped wet and then dried. We covered the rawhide with thin, tanned buckskin, using Barge cement. Then we laced them with round leather or synthetic sinew. The Bowie blade is 10" long. Edited March 16, 2015 by Frank Turley adding sentence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCROB Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 (edited) Looks like there ready to go to work Frank , what's the steel ? Handle material ? Edited March 17, 2015 by BCROB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoRockNazz Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 I too want to know more about them. Can we get a couple close-ups? What's the finish like.I especially dig the bowie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 I was guessing Osage Orange on the handles????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 The little knives are made of W1 drill rod. The chef's knife is a portion of an old crosscut saw. The Bowie is from a horse rasp with teeth and rasp cuts ground away first. I was told that the handle wood is from Brazil. That's about all I know. The chef's knife has tiny oxides in the blade center which I left on both sides. We finished them on a Grizzly belt sander, fairly fine grit, no mirror finish. Assembled with JB slow curing and brazing rod "fake rivets" also JB'd. The Bowie guard is A36 with drilled and filed slot, slipped on and silver soldered with 15% industrial solder. We stabbed the blade all the way to the guard with a raw potato, using it for a heat stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Nice blades. I like things made to use more so than things made to be pretty. The simple utilitarian appeals to me. I'm not saying pretty blades aren't lesser tools, I just have a closer connection to tools that look like what they are.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Not bad for an old farrier, Frank. Maybe there is hope for me yet ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 .... We stabbed the blade all the way to the guard with a raw potato, using it for a heat stop.That potato trick for a heat stop/heat sink is a great idea. Gotta remember that for lots of things, not just knives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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