Stormcrow Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Some of the work that I've completed in the last few months that hasn't gotten posted yet: This double-edged meat cleaver was built as close as possible to a sketch sent to me by the customer. I'm pretty pleased (and so is he!) with how closely I was able to get to what he drew. The blade is 13 1/2" of 5160 steel, the top edge is fully sharpened, the handle is marine epoxy-impregnated blue paracord over black over a foundation of neoprene. The butt is left exposed, and there are Turk's head knots fore and aft. He also ordered up a Benghazi Warfighter with matching handle wrap. An idea of scale: Forged at the same time as the cleaver was this carcass splitter, with a single layer of black paracord over neoprene for the handle. The blade is 17 1/2" long of 5160. This was a short sword I forged a few years ago, inspired by Celtic and Chinese ancient swords. It ended up being bought by my best customer, a Navy SEAL. A few months ago he asked if he could send it back. He loved it, but it just was not a practical blade to carry on the battlefield, so it had been on display, unused. He wondered if I could re-sell the sword and put the money toward something he would actually strap to his gear when in the dangerous parts of the world. I agreed, and put forth the offer to any interested buyer that I would re-wrap the handle with my improved methods in their colors of choice and build a new sheath, once again since my skills in that area have improved. It ended up getting spotted on Instagram by a customer who had seen it when I first made it and loved it then. He jumped on the opportunity and laid claim. His choice of colors was to keep the original black over retina-searing neon lime, but decided to make the three-strand Turk's head knot blue instead of black. The handle doesn't look a lot different from what it did before, but it fits the hand much better than before. The blade is 13 1/4" long, again 5160. And the improved sheath molding is obvious. The original black one was done by heating about 6" of Kydex at a time with a heat gun. The new tan one was heated with a T-shirt press. The T-shirt press is one of the best tooling investments I've made. And less dramatic-looking but at least as special to me is this long Little Rok. It was ordered by the soldier who ordered the first-ever Little Rok (along with Mightor, the big ol' Bowie that went it it) to carry in Afghanistan. This one was commissioned as a gift for his father, the blade extended to current legal carry size in Texas, 5 1/2". Wrap is tan over olive drab over neoprene. He has built a leather sheath for it in addition to the Kydex one I made. The original Mightor/Little Rok and two mini-prybar rig from 2013: And a little video showing some of these blades and some others that I've already posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGq6c6K6Y7M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoRockNazz Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Fantastic group of blades, loving the big choppers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrow Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 Thanks, Theo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Great work as always Stormcrow! That double edge cleaver it a beast as well as the carcass splitter. Really like the short sword profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novam1a Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 excellent job , really like your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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