Howdy folks!
First of all, I would like to say, thank bloody christ for batch image resizers and renamers! Secondly... when you make a new folder to upload to, remember the 'cd'.
This isn't really a tut for the record, just chronicling my new favourite knife; if anyone has any questions though, feel free to ask!
A while ago I approached Bernie Garland about making me a blade blank of my own design. And that he did
Bloody well at that, it's a great blade - here she is:
The block is a bit of dyed-through curly birch I bought and Bernie drilled for me, since I don't have a pillar drill and can't drill a straight hole to safe myself
A test fit! The bolster is 5mm thick leather.
I did a little bit of tapering and cut the corners off before gluing up, but here it is glued... and the drawing is my idea of the finished product!
I find leather to be a real PITA to grind with a belt grinder, so I used the bench grinder to bring that section down to size.
Wee bit of rounding!
Contact wheel for the grinder for doing the hollows at the pommel...
Gettin there
Where the line dips down towards the blade, more material needs to be removed...
I kept checking the drawing and this mora for reference. The second pic shows the rough work done! Notice the beveled pommel, I like that
Just a note - I was going to peen the tang, but it just wasn't really happening, and I started to bend the tang so I just ground it flat - I really need to buy a couple cheap knives to practice that on!
Supergluing the bolster to seal it - I got a bit of leather dye on the wood but this sanded out later.
Almost
First coat of oil!
As you can see there's a small gap between bolster and handle
However, I'm bloody thrilled This is, for me, the best all-round Bushcraft knife available, and there's only one of em
A very chuffed Pete
First of all, I would like to say, thank bloody christ for batch image resizers and renamers! Secondly... when you make a new folder to upload to, remember the 'cd'.
This isn't really a tut for the record, just chronicling my new favourite knife; if anyone has any questions though, feel free to ask!
A while ago I approached Bernie Garland about making me a blade blank of my own design. And that he did
Bloody well at that, it's a great blade - here she is:
The block is a bit of dyed-through curly birch I bought and Bernie drilled for me, since I don't have a pillar drill and can't drill a straight hole to safe myself
A test fit! The bolster is 5mm thick leather.
I did a little bit of tapering and cut the corners off before gluing up, but here it is glued... and the drawing is my idea of the finished product!
I find leather to be a real PITA to grind with a belt grinder, so I used the bench grinder to bring that section down to size.
Wee bit of rounding!
Contact wheel for the grinder for doing the hollows at the pommel...
Gettin there
Where the line dips down towards the blade, more material needs to be removed...
I kept checking the drawing and this mora for reference. The second pic shows the rough work done! Notice the beveled pommel, I like that
Just a note - I was going to peen the tang, but it just wasn't really happening, and I started to bend the tang so I just ground it flat - I really need to buy a couple cheap knives to practice that on!
Supergluing the bolster to seal it - I got a bit of leather dye on the wood but this sanded out later.
Almost
First coat of oil!
As you can see there's a small gap between bolster and handle
However, I'm bloody thrilled This is, for me, the best all-round Bushcraft knife available, and there's only one of em A very chuffed Pete
