It's finished...

[Niels]

It took a lot of work. But there she is: my sticktang woodlore knife. 4 mm thick and unpolished.

Handle materials: curly birch, reindeer antler, and a pommel of unknown antler.


2013-02-02 23.15.16 by Sami knives, on Flickr

Handle being assembled:


2013-02-07 00.00.02 by Sami knives, on Flickr

Some work later. The gloss isn't really showing as well as I'd like in the pictures. And the bolster fit isn't the best I've done. I might put some epoxy in there at some point.


2013-04-18 18.09.38 by Sami knives, on Flickr


2013-04-18 18.09.58 by Sami knives, on Flickr


2013-04-18 18.11.37 by Sami knives, on Flickr


2013-04-18 18.21.45 by Sami knives, on Flickr


2013-04-18 18.26.08 by Sami knives, on Flickr


2013-04-18 18.26.52 by Sami knives, on Flickr

I left some of the antler bark on, just personal preference.


2013-04-18 18.27.29 by Sami knives, on Flickr










2013-04-18 18.28.27 by Sami knives, on Flickr

It carves superbly too:


2013-04-17 16.49.24 by Sami knives, on Flickr

And thanks to croslandkelly for kindly giving me a belt dangler for the sheath, and many thanks to Dreadhead for trading me the leather. And to Mark for giving me some antler.
Thanks for looking!

 

[Two Socks]

Beautiful!

 

[WULF]

Wow.....
thats a great looking knife mate,excellent.

 

[swotty]

Nice work, I like the way the bolster goes so far forward

 

[Samon]

that looks really good mate! particularly nice handle job, great choices in materials there too

 

[luckylee]

Fantastic mate, well done bud, looks great, and you should be proud buddy.

 

[Dreadhead]

phwaw that's a real beauty mate! very envious indeed

 

[copper_head]

Nice work, that looks great

 

[HillBill]

Turned out well that Niels, I like it, wasn't sure how it would look, so i'm pleasantly surprised it turned out as it did

 

[Biker]

That is spectacular! I love that antler pommel end especially. Very well done mate.

 

[bilmo-p5]

Beautiful work, Niels

 

[Reverend Graham]

soooooo good.

Rev G

 

[Man of Tanith]

Very very nice mate good work there

 

[Niels]

Thanks a lot everyone I'm very happy with it myself too.

 

[Mesquite]

That's a stunner Niels, you did a grand job with that

 

[Man of Tanith]

Theres a knife makin comp thatd make a good entry......

 

[Niels]

Theres a knife makin comp thatd make a good entry......

I would but the material cost is slightly too high for that.:bluThinki

 

[Mesquite]

I would but the material cost is slightly too high for that.:bluThinki

That's a real shame Niels.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Thats a lovely knife there Niels, great choice of materials.

 

[Steve13]

Now that is a cracker

Well done that man