What's your latest blade look like? Post em and let us see.

[Charlycuervo]

Thank you all for your words.

Frosty, don't worry, I accept criticism. As you say: tastes are tastes and all of we have ours.

[M.J.Lampert]

so i did this last year in November 

 

but after that a friend decided to make a sheath for Christmas … well Christmas became my birthday and then beyond so this weekend he finally gave it back to me. he stamped my initials and died it black I plan to add a strap on it to hold it a little tighter when going through the brush. I sanded the handle some more and have since pics given the antler a coat of BLC and olive oil for the sheath 1 more coat needed on the latter and 2-3 on the handle so without further delay

and one black and white to really pop the colours

the blade on close inspection has some mistakes and when buffing it i got it a little hot  but other wise im really happy  

the friend traded me some oak wood for a bush knife i will make him. wondering should I go with 1095 or 1075 for the blade i have either to chose from?

M.J.Lampert

 

[Chad J.]

I've been trying to finish up the knives I have sitting on the shelf. All 5160, most have hickory.

[Frazer]

I lost my last knife pocket knife somewhere so I had to whip up a replacement. On the bright side the pattern turned out nice, 54 layers. The handle is my first go at micarta and I think I'll go with different canvas colors if I decide to do it again. Something more natural. This example could be summed up in one syllable, "meh".

 

The sheath also leaves something to be desired, but it's good enough for government work.

[ThomasPowers]

Inlet fancy mosaic pins in the handle---not through the tang, just the micarta and have a star studded "night sky" look---perhaps do some constellations?

[Frosty]

Ohhh, I like it! The Perseids are warming up, maybe some inlaid fine wire to represent shooting stars?

Frosty The Lucky.

[Frazer]

Hmm.. I like this idea.. It would go well with the black and purple micarta "night sky". It might be a little better suited on a handle that could provide a larger canvas. This one is rather small (0.75" x 3"). 

 

[ThomasPowers]

Pick a small simple constellation; or even part of one. The Southern Cross might work, Cassiopeia, there are more than just the european ones too!

[Frazer]

The knife shall hence forth be known as Orion's Belt! *grin*

In all seriousness, I'll take a look for something that might be able to get worked in. I like the idea.

[Frosty]

The more I think about it the more I like it. You could carry the pictograph name to the sheath with a pattern in brass rivets.

Frosty The Lucky.

[ThomasPowers]

Freya's belt---are you going to include her spindle?

[Frosty]

A round sharpening steel would make a decent representation of a drop spindle wouldn't it? 

Oooh I'm liking this.

Frosty The Lucky.

 

[ThomasPowers]

Well some places call it her "distaff"; my wife prefers spindle.

[Frazer]

Watch out for that spindle. Even talking about it makes me sleepy.

[ThomasPowers]

That joke is a beauty of a sleeper!

[Frazer]

Sleeper? Clearly someone was awake at their post!

[Frosty]

Ply your jokes with care!

Frosty The Lucky.

[Frazer]

Indeed, I almost added an adverb for the purposes of disambiguation, but I didn't want anyone to think I was under the weather.

Given the available space, Sagitta and Delphinus both seem like viable options. While less exciting to look at, Sagitta seems to be slightly more appropriate for a knife handle. 

[ThomasPowers]

Don't forget to colour code the stars!

[HondoWalker]

This is my latest knife. I sorta gave up on it when I discovered it was not hardenable and is in fact really soft. The buffing wheel caught the blade a couple times and ruined the edge. It was practice I guess. 

[ThomasPowers]

Scrapyard Rules: Test for hardening *BEFORE* spending all that time working on it!

(It goes both ways; I've had some stuff I thought was mild that turned out not to be when using it on a project that required cooling some sections while working others!)

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

I haven't made any knives lately but the last one I made a long time ago is the D-guard Bowie on the right in this picture.

[Chad J.]

Starting in on a cruciform like dagger.  It's about 14 inches long in the blade.   If I can pull this off I may getting moving on to an arming sword to go with it.  I managed to hammer in the rough bevels  and we'll see what happens.   Using the other half of this piece to make a bullocks dagger, just cause it's gonna be fun explaining it to people who don't know. 

[HondoWalker]

Here's the latest practice knife. Used a wider/thicker guard. Think it makes for a better knife. The wood is oak. 

[ThomasPowers]

In general I find I carry and use knives more the lighter they are and so "just heavy enough to do their job" is what I aim for.