My Svord Peasant

[Albus Culter]

Me again

Most of my threads seem to be about knives and start with a hat tip to MOT.

I'll vary this one slightly and say thanks to a fine chap called Sam for the blade

Chatting with Sam I mentioned I'd missed out on a Svord Peasant listed on this good forum and wished I'd gone for it. It's not a knife I've come across so was interested to check it out. He mentioned he had a blade from a Svord and if he found it he would send it and I could make my own.

What a blumming (thank got I caught that auto-correct ) nice fella.

Well here it goes. I did not take that many pics, so here is what I have.

My plan as I needed to work out a handle shape and make sure pins are in the right place

Scales of maple. I had a small block left over from another project.

Rough shape to my liking

Sanded smooth, and some brown leather dye.

And a wet formed sheath dyed with vinegroon.

It's a nice little setup and knife. I've not handled a Svord before and I quite like them. Nice blade. I'm looking forward to trying it out in the woods. I'm also looking forward to trying the Mini as it seems a better pocket size.

Thanks for looking. Now comment good and bad

 

[mountainm]

Good job there. Looks a great setup.

 

[Niels]

You nailed it with that black metal and brown wood. Looks so cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Biker]

Leather dye? On wood? Hmmmm hadn't considered that thinking outside the box. I love that colour the Maple turned out. Nice one.

:You_Rock_

I like Svord's and customised my own a couple of years, there are a few others who contributed pix of their own in the thread. You can find it HERE

 

[shaggystu]

That's a lovely looking knife mate, good old "Sam" for sorting you the blade out

Cheers,

Stuart.

 

[Albus Culter]

Thanks guys.

Yeh seems an often modded knife. It was all your great previous posts that inspired trying one myself.

Top man is Sam

 

[luckylee]

Leather dye? On wood? Hmmmm hadn't considered that thinking outside the box. I love that colour the Maple turned out. Nice one.

:You_Rock_

I like Svord's and customised my own a couple of years, there are a few others who contributed pix of their own in the thread. You can find it HERE

me neither, nice one.

 

[mrcharly]

very nice result.

Has anyone modded it so that the extension bit goes into the handle and can be 'fixed' with a strategic pin?

 

[Albus Culter]

Thanks for the comments all.

Leather dye? Well because a wanted to dye it and its all I had

I'm sure wood dye would be better. But for one little project I could not justify the outlay. And the leather dye was just sat there. So I thought, its all pigment, try it. Word of warning fiebing's light brown looks very ginger with one coat - on wood at least.

 

[Fatbob]

I like this a lot, did you grind the blade to make it UK legal?

 

[crosslandkelly]

That's really nice. I like that a lot.

 

[Albus Culter]

I like this a lot, did you grind the blade to make it UK legal?

No just as it came from Sam but a quick rub with a scotchbrite pad.

Not measured it in fairness, but thought it was about 3" anyway. Will check that out. Mini will be the better carry knife I think, once I've made it

 

[Forest fella]

That looks great well done

 

[Man of Tanith]

Thats a good job mate.
You're definitely showing a talent with the knife working.
What else can you do?

 

[Corfe]

Lovely job - and like the idea of the leather dye for the wood. Definitely going to try that.

 

[Corso]

now that is rather smart

 

[Albus Culter]

Thats a good job mate.
You're definitely showing a talent with the knife working.
What else can you do?

I have no idea? Made a few strops that I like, but still knife related

Could carve a spoon, but not done that for a bit. Why what you got in mind

 

[Man of Tanith]

Will see what I can think up

 

[luckylee]

can i ask for some advice please mate, as i have has some saddlers sewing clams come this morning mate, have waited for such a long time for them.
and i want to add the stripes and pimp them a little, did you add the dye with a dauber? or a paint brush and what colour did you use mate.
any help would be appreciated bud.

 

[Albus Culter]

Fiebings light brown was the colour.

Watered down the first coat as I was not sure how dark it would go but this just came out ginger. So I switched to using it neat which was a better colour and built over a few coats. I just used cotton buds to apply it as they are cheap and to hand.

Stained well. When I oiled it the oil lifted some of the colour which lightened sections which I liked. No idea long term how colour fast it will be, but I guess the oil will seal it once that hardens.

If I was doing more I'd stump up £10 for wood dye, but it was to hand and I figured spirit based dye, try it.

Hope this helps