Sami styleish.....

[roots]

Sort of Sami style made by me. Fallow handle with Walnut and leather sheath. Blade not by me this time but I did put a bit of file work in to it! Go on have a look......comments welcome.

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/rootspics66/knifepics003.jpg

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/rootspics66/knifepics005.jpg

 

[MikeE]

Not my usual cup of tea but that is a really great looking knife and sheath.

 

[DKW]

Very nice work. Great sheath!
Topnotch on my behalf.

Allthough i do find the transition from handle to blade on the back of the blade to be off. I would have preferred it to go stepless from handle to blade.
Don't know if i have written my thoughts correctly down, so please ask if you have any doubt about what i mean.
Great looking nonetheless.

 

[NatG]

think this'll work

 

[brancho]

I love the knife
I can see what DKW is saying about the transition from blade to handle. I have never had the nerve yet to go that far


The sheath is a good attempt but the shape could flow better to match the blade or handle shape.
I also prefer pictures to links

 

[DKW]

I love the knife
I can see what DKW is saying about the transition from blade to handle. I have never had the nerve yet to go that far

No need to be nervous.
I usually use sandblastingtape wrapped a couple of times around the blade right up to the frontpart (don't know the english name for it. In DK its known as "frontHolk") of the handle.
(Here its the brasspiece)
I have never managed to scratch the blade, not even while using coarser tools, as the sandblasting tape is very soft and sort of budges the tools much like our own skin would do.

I have made a knife where the entire frontpart of the handle was sloped inwards and then flattening out in a almost paperthin surface over the last 1½ mm or so, just by applying tape to the blade itself to protect it.

Go for it i'd say, and if you scratch it, a piece of 2000 grain wetsandingpaper will do the trick, if followed up by a bit of polishing.

 

[brancho]

No need to be nervous.
I usually use sandblastingtape wrapped a couple of times around the blade right up to the frontpart (don't know the english name for it. In DK its known as "frontHolk") of the handle.
(Here its the brasspiece)
I have never managed to scratch the blade, not even while using coarser tools, as the sandblasting tape is very soft and sort of budges the tools much like our own skin would do.

The Frontholk is a bolster and it was a concern about taking bolster down small enough to be inline with the blade not damaging the blade I have made about 9 knives so far

 

[forginhill]

Well done! I like what you did with the antler and spacers. Cool sheath too!

Todd

 

[DKW]

The Frontholk is a bolster and it was a concern about taking bolster down small enough to be inline with the blade not damaging the blade I have made about 9 knives so far

Bolster. Thanks. Just didn't remember the word.

hm. Why would you have concerns doing that, if it wasn't for the blade?
Just curious, there could be something i never thought of before.

 

[brancho]

hm. Why would you have concerns doing that, if it wasn't for the blade?
Just curious, there could be something i never thought of before.

The worry is that I remove so much of the bolster thatI expose parts of the tang

Look HERE to one my knives

by the way have looked on British Blades at the scandi blades section.

 

[DKW]

The worry is that I remove so much of the bolster thatI expose parts of the tang

Look HERE to one my knives

by the way have looked on British Blades at the scandi blades section.

Ah.. I suppose it could happen, but then the tang would have to be set at same height as the back of the blade. Wich at least in my eyes makes very little sense, unless its a fulltang, and then it just makes even less sense. (To me at least)
Depends on the blades tang then.