So people moan at me for not producing any of my own work but I keep taking on cutlery work for people. Oddly, I have recently had a string of 'old' blades come into the workshop, each from different people. I have shown the billhook and butcher knife before, the kukri is a way off but I have just finished off this scandinavian knife.
It arrived as shown in the picture below - just the blade with most of the tang rusted away, the end cap crusted up, the ferrule and a sheath.
A new tang was welded on without re-heat treating the blade, using a potato as a heat sink. Little bit of welding, grind it back, little bit of welding, grind it back and so on - quite a job!
Having the sheath already sewn up was another challenge as sizing the handle to be a good fit to the sheath was a backwards way of working for me.
This was a very challenging build for me as it needed to be done in a sympathetic way to the existing parts. If I had a big mistake and ruined a part it would have been quite disastrous as I couldn't just get a new blade/ferrule/buttcap.
It was, however, quite satisfying to give it a new life.
The wood is stabilised Spalted Birch from Pikebite. This wood is amazing with the patterns and colours!
There are more pictures here:
Scandi Refurb pictures
It arrived as shown in the picture below - just the blade with most of the tang rusted away, the end cap crusted up, the ferrule and a sheath.
A new tang was welded on without re-heat treating the blade, using a potato as a heat sink. Little bit of welding, grind it back, little bit of welding, grind it back and so on - quite a job!
Having the sheath already sewn up was another challenge as sizing the handle to be a good fit to the sheath was a backwards way of working for me.
This was a very challenging build for me as it needed to be done in a sympathetic way to the existing parts. If I had a big mistake and ruined a part it would have been quite disastrous as I couldn't just get a new blade/ferrule/buttcap.
It was, however, quite satisfying to give it a new life.
The wood is stabilised Spalted Birch from Pikebite. This wood is amazing with the patterns and colours!
There are more pictures here:
Scandi Refurb pictures
It's convex. Possibly half height but I think full height.
