Well well well, Dear Gentlemen and Miladies,
Hereby I present you my Knife, Sheath just got finished so pictures of that beauty tomorrow ^^
Lets start at the beginning, I spend a total of 6,30, 2.30 for a long drillbit and 4 euro's for a trainticket about a year ago to get the veneer XD, everything else is salvaged,
The Veneer I use is from a company who make posh office furniture, and They agreed to let me have their offcuts thus I traveled towards them to get it, still have 2 full ski bags of the stuff.
Apart from that delightful story, The mainwood is Teak from an old Closet from my grandparents house, The Blade was created by myself on the 2012 bushmoot under guidance of the handsome Dave Budd.
I burned in the Tang of the blade in the handle after predrilling it, and fixed it with some 2C Epoxy, which I can arrange for free from my School. Enough chitchat.
This was the Knife blade I used and made:
Now lets guide you guys and gall through the design:
Beware Pic heavy.
Behind the knife handle you can see a spread of veneers, upon a bed of Walnut veneer,
The seven layer of veneer in the knife are composed as following: Maple, Beech, Cherry, Walnut, Cherry, Beech, Maple
Which gave the effect I wanted ranging from light to dark, I glued the veneers together and crosscut the Teak and spliced in the Veneer boards.
After this the process of shaping the handle was at hand.
I already had a mock up model for the shape of the handle as I want it to be a strictly Right handed knife, as I would be using it as a right handed knife, with 3 available grips: Normal one with the blade facing away from the user ( as you would see in a powercut), The blade facing inwards so towards the user, and the blade pointing down. and this had all to be very comfortable.
This is why the two sides of the knife are not identical, on side of the pommel is sloped the other is not, ensuring a perfect fit for every grip.
In the powercut grip the ridge on the left side ensures more grip, and prevents slipping, The sloped side gives room for the thumb when the blade is pointing down and makes room for the bottom of the palm when the blade is facing you.
Álso the Spine of the blade was quite rough and I doubted quite sometime to smooth that with a file, and dress it up, but I decide I like the look and I would want to see where I came from once, a First knife that I didnt fancy up the Raw craftsmanship, I just liked that Idea.
And now some more pics to show you the Knife:
And to show you the measurements where the Tang of the balde and the handle meet, I feel quite satisfied.
Well that is my knife for ya, with the Sheath lurking behind some of the pics, but will post that up tomorrow
Let me know what you guys think, and pointers and tips are always welcome, and fingers crossed XD
And I would like to applaud my mom as the Handsome handmodel XD
Yours sincerely Ruud
Hereby I present you my Knife, Sheath just got finished so pictures of that beauty tomorrow ^^
Lets start at the beginning, I spend a total of 6,30, 2.30 for a long drillbit and 4 euro's for a trainticket about a year ago to get the veneer XD, everything else is salvaged,
The Veneer I use is from a company who make posh office furniture, and They agreed to let me have their offcuts thus I traveled towards them to get it, still have 2 full ski bags of the stuff.
Apart from that delightful story, The mainwood is Teak from an old Closet from my grandparents house, The Blade was created by myself on the 2012 bushmoot under guidance of the handsome Dave Budd.
I burned in the Tang of the blade in the handle after predrilling it, and fixed it with some 2C Epoxy, which I can arrange for free from my School. Enough chitchat.
This was the Knife blade I used and made:
Now lets guide you guys and gall through the design:
Beware Pic heavy.
Behind the knife handle you can see a spread of veneers, upon a bed of Walnut veneer,
The seven layer of veneer in the knife are composed as following: Maple, Beech, Cherry, Walnut, Cherry, Beech, Maple
Which gave the effect I wanted ranging from light to dark, I glued the veneers together and crosscut the Teak and spliced in the Veneer boards.
After this the process of shaping the handle was at hand.
I already had a mock up model for the shape of the handle as I want it to be a strictly Right handed knife, as I would be using it as a right handed knife, with 3 available grips: Normal one with the blade facing away from the user ( as you would see in a powercut), The blade facing inwards so towards the user, and the blade pointing down. and this had all to be very comfortable.
This is why the two sides of the knife are not identical, on side of the pommel is sloped the other is not, ensuring a perfect fit for every grip.
In the powercut grip the ridge on the left side ensures more grip, and prevents slipping, The sloped side gives room for the thumb when the blade is pointing down and makes room for the bottom of the palm when the blade is facing you.
Álso the Spine of the blade was quite rough and I doubted quite sometime to smooth that with a file, and dress it up, but I decide I like the look and I would want to see where I came from once, a First knife that I didnt fancy up the Raw craftsmanship, I just liked that Idea.
And now some more pics to show you the Knife:
And to show you the measurements where the Tang of the balde and the handle meet, I feel quite satisfied.
Well that is my knife for ya, with the Sheath lurking behind some of the pics, but will post that up tomorrow
Let me know what you guys think, and pointers and tips are always welcome, and fingers crossed XD
And I would like to applaud my mom as the Handsome handmodel XD
Yours sincerely Ruud
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