Howdy folks! As I mentioned in another thread, I'm making a set of Sgians for christmas presents. Well . . . here they are:
The bottom one is unfinished - the stump just above the crown needs smoothing off, the top needs tapered in towards the blade a bit and the blade needs to be glued in. The others just need a bit of cleaning up where the epoxy was applied. Smoothing off the aforementioned stumps left some of the porous core exposed so I sealed it with some more epoxy, just to prevent it smelling or harbouring germs. Since the tapering and smoothing leaves some smooth, bare patches I might do a little decorative scrimshaw.
Next is a knife I've been working on for over a year. Not because it's an amazing feat of knifemaking and artistic brilliance I wanted to get just right, but rather because I've been unable to decide how I wanted to do it. But when I got an exceptionally large bit of antler crown roll, I decided it'd do.
I'm leaving it pretty rough finished. The crown isn't going to be smoothed at all, though I might smooth out the cut edges meeting the blade just a tad. OA length is 9 1/2", with blade length being 4 1/2 long, almost 1/8" thick and 1 1/4" wide at its broadest point. The grind is somewhere between a scandi and convex . . . mainly because I'm rubbish at making a scandi grind by hand! But it's to be a bit of a chopper so that's OK with me. The crown sits in the hand well to chop across the grain!
Cheers,
Pete
The bottom one is unfinished - the stump just above the crown needs smoothing off, the top needs tapered in towards the blade a bit and the blade needs to be glued in. The others just need a bit of cleaning up where the epoxy was applied. Smoothing off the aforementioned stumps left some of the porous core exposed so I sealed it with some more epoxy, just to prevent it smelling or harbouring germs. Since the tapering and smoothing leaves some smooth, bare patches I might do a little decorative scrimshaw.
Next is a knife I've been working on for over a year. Not because it's an amazing feat of knifemaking and artistic brilliance I wanted to get just right, but rather because I've been unable to decide how I wanted to do it. But when I got an exceptionally large bit of antler crown roll, I decided it'd do.
I'm leaving it pretty rough finished. The crown isn't going to be smoothed at all, though I might smooth out the cut edges meeting the blade just a tad. OA length is 9 1/2", with blade length being 4 1/2 long, almost 1/8" thick and 1 1/4" wide at its broadest point. The grind is somewhere between a scandi and convex . . . mainly because I'm rubbish at making a scandi grind by hand! But it's to be a bit of a chopper so that's OK with me. The crown sits in the hand well to chop across the grain!
Cheers,
Pete
