Hello everyone.
Over the last few days I have bee at the knife making thing again. THe first knife I handled was a stick tang, but wanted to have a go at a full tang.
I purchased this Mora blade, pretty much because it was the only full tang blank I could find (other than a few damascus ones).
Its a 3mm thick, 30mm cutting edge, Sandvik 12C27 steel knife. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, but I thought it would do for a start. I handled it with American Cherry Wood, red fibre liners (which became bvery, very dark after oiling the handle) and brass/stainless loveless rivets (and of course some araldite)
Anyway, here is the result!
I'm quite happy with the outcome. I modified the blank a bit (some before, and some after getting the scales on), namely making it into a more classic woodie type drop point which also removed the rounded spine of the origional (which wouldn't throw sparks from a fire steel), rounded off the finger guard which was a bit too large, and also tried to remove the blunt ricasso that had an odd little bit poking out from the belly before the sharp edge began. Oh and also put a full scandi on it, removing the single sided secondary bevel.
I'm also lucky that it fits extremely snuggly in the sheath that came with my A Wright Woodie clone which I am currently making a new sheath for (as this sheath does not fit the A Wright at all well)
Here it is alongside my 4" 4mm A Wright woodie clone and Ben Orford 3 1/2" 4mm Woodsman for comparison.
After this project I fully understand why custom knives from makers cost what they do - the materials aren't too cheap to start with (I went for the cheapest I could here and meterials without postage would be somewhere around the £25-30 mark) and they are a complete labour to produce. Mine has many flaws which are no doubt inexperience. They hopefully wont alter the function of the knife, but they are not the kind of thing you accept when you pay top dollar for a sharp.
Anyway, she's custom fitted to my hand, comfy to hold (hopefully to use too) and very sharp. I'm sure she'll be a fine user!
Thanks for looking.
Colin
Over the last few days I have bee at the knife making thing again. THe first knife I handled was a stick tang, but wanted to have a go at a full tang.
I purchased this Mora blade, pretty much because it was the only full tang blank I could find (other than a few damascus ones).
Its a 3mm thick, 30mm cutting edge, Sandvik 12C27 steel knife. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, but I thought it would do for a start. I handled it with American Cherry Wood, red fibre liners (which became bvery, very dark after oiling the handle) and brass/stainless loveless rivets (and of course some araldite)
Anyway, here is the result!
I'm quite happy with the outcome. I modified the blank a bit (some before, and some after getting the scales on), namely making it into a more classic woodie type drop point which also removed the rounded spine of the origional (which wouldn't throw sparks from a fire steel), rounded off the finger guard which was a bit too large, and also tried to remove the blunt ricasso that had an odd little bit poking out from the belly before the sharp edge began. Oh and also put a full scandi on it, removing the single sided secondary bevel.
I'm also lucky that it fits extremely snuggly in the sheath that came with my A Wright Woodie clone which I am currently making a new sheath for (as this sheath does not fit the A Wright at all well)
Here it is alongside my 4" 4mm A Wright woodie clone and Ben Orford 3 1/2" 4mm Woodsman for comparison.
After this project I fully understand why custom knives from makers cost what they do - the materials aren't too cheap to start with (I went for the cheapest I could here and meterials without postage would be somewhere around the £25-30 mark) and they are a complete labour to produce. Mine has many flaws which are no doubt inexperience. They hopefully wont alter the function of the knife, but they are not the kind of thing you accept when you pay top dollar for a sharp.
Anyway, she's custom fitted to my hand, comfy to hold (hopefully to use too) and very sharp. I'm sure she'll be a fine user!
Thanks for looking.
Colin
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