May 6, 20215 yr Thisknife was made as a replacement for my dad's hunting knife. He got the original decades ago and over the years it wore and chipped and was reground multiple times, the final straw was a huge chip broken out from the middle. This knife follows the blade profile of the original (although I adjusted the lines a little to make it a bit more attractive than the original) but the handle of the original wasn't great in my opinion so I changed that as well. It has the flavor of the original but with some updates. It started as a 1/2x1 piece of carbon steel, I drew out the blade to rough shape then the handle before going back to the blade for final shaping. There's a distal taper on the blade as well as the tang for balance. The scales are walnut with tubular copper rivets and are inlayed with my dad's (and my own technically) initials E.S. in fine silver wire as well as a decorative scroll above and below. Alot of "firsts" for me on this one, first time doing a full tang integral bolster, first time with this blade shape, and first time doing the wire inlay on an actual project. I'm pretty happy with the result !
May 6, 20215 yr Shouldn't the sheath hold the blade so the handle decoration is to the outside for *show*. It deserves to be visible!
May 6, 20215 yr Author I thought the same thing but I did the inlay way before I did the sheath! A small lack of forethought on my part there
May 6, 20215 yr Author 8 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: inlay the other side as well? Now you're just talking crazy!
May 7, 20215 yr Thomas is known for talking crazy like that. I'm known for agreeing with him pretty often. Frosty The Lucky.
May 7, 20215 yr Now, Now Frosty; it's not like I suggested using transparent walnut so people could see the inlay from the other side. I leant some to the Invisible Man for a transparent Aluminum blade he was making; but I haven't seen the result...
May 7, 20215 yr Author I'm thinking his original may have been a schrade actually! Also I think many of my tools must be transparent because I can never seem to find them after I set them on the bench!
May 7, 20215 yr My wife likes to clean the kitchen after I've gone to bed so that when I wake up and have to get to work I can't find anything. We were discussing our increasing forgetfulness as we age with out Daughter and she asked if she needed to hire an Aide to rearrange things in the kitchen at night while we were asleep. So thoughtful!
May 7, 20215 yr Thomas, there are two things that happen to us as we get older, first, we lose our memory and I don't remember the second one. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand."
May 7, 20215 yr What's that Thomas?, I can't hear you over the clattering of keys. Here you go Ed. Might want to engrave the tang too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUU3jW7Y9Ak Frosty The Lucky.
August 27, 20214 yr He makes way to many assumptions and there is too much “magic” in his work for him to be thinking he is doing “science”. Cool video none the less. Some of it made me think of histology. But I was wondering, why not just go with plexiglass, since that is essentially what he has.
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