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Ilsa's new knife
Alric:
I finished mine, too.
The blade is from an old Regent Sheffield kitchen knife that I found at a flee market last year and cut down to seax shape. The handle is cut from a blank that Hivemind sent me last year (thank you again!). I'm not fully satisfied with the handle's finish; I might sand it clean and do something different that highlights the grain better. I'm not quite happy with the sheath, either. A lot of little details are off in small ways, and the backside is rough (some of the rivets didn't come through the copper cleanly on the back). I haven't pinned down everything that I want to do differently next time.
I'm ok with this project, but it's not quite doing it for me. I'll have to take another stab at it in the future (perhaps with an Owen Bush blank of my own... *drooling a little*).
hivemind:
Ahh, you finally used that block of walnut. Good show.
In all my dicking around trying to find a seax blank, I somehow never thought of re-profiling a big-ass kitchen knife - which is retarded, because I re-profile blades on my grinder all the damned time.
I don't think I have time to get it done by Rag now, though. :(
Alric:
Quote from: hivemind on June 12, 2012, 08:38:22 am>>>>Ahh, you finally used that block of walnut. Good show.
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Yeah! It was really easy to carve (I used a chisel). And drilling the cutout for the tang wasn't as difficult as I'd anticipated (though I got a few degrees off from straight, annoyingly - I need a drill press, as soon as I get a shop to put it in).
I had to ruin the heat treatment to cut the blade down. I think I managed to put it back again (heated red hot with a torch, quenched, and tempered to straw colored), but that's something I still haven't gotten good at. It's not quite as hard as I'd like - it'll bounce a cheap Walmart hacksaw blade, but I can score it with a file if I try. Again, stuff to work on as I get better at this.
hivemind:
I just go real slow, and dip it in water every three seconds. If there's a lot to cut, I use a saw rather than the grinder.
Alric:
Definitely the way to do it.
Unfortunately, I had to cut mine out with a hacksaw, and the blade was too hard to cut without softening it first. Doing things without the right tools sucks, and it's a slow process to gather them all.
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