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Stew

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Stew

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Apple wood scales for this Canadian belt knife. It'll have black carbon fibre pins but needs a tang spacer extension.

The question is - black Micarta to match the pins or burgundy richlite?

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mic201m

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Nice job Stew,
I found my #17 blank a few weeks ago and made up the knife ,used more scrap wood on the handle,
or in polite circles ,'wood composite' :smuggrin:
 

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and one step back!




As the others were going so well, I thought I would work a bit off this Turkish walnut handle too. The wood is cross cut and was a gamble - it was a mistake! Limited strength in the grain and unnoticed it flexing so knocked it off. I think something stronger for the next set of scales to go on it!!



 

Stew

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I wonder how many pieces of work are going to be produced in this time of lockdown that wouldn’t have been otherwise?

This is my lockdown piece. A rough ground Bowie blade destined for some brass and wood.

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That blade cracked in the quench - I couldn't locate the oil so risked it in an interrupted water quench. One of the dips I held it longer and heard the 'tink'. Oops!

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So a quick bit of grinding on a fresh bit of steel....

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That on survived heat treat. (I found oil!)

I'm going for Moose antler, brass guard. Since this picture I've settled on some Red Mallee for the front section plus some extra brass and bronze.

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Lots of hand sanding on this one....

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A handle for a Dave Budd blade that will be a simple barrel shape to allow the wood to show itself off.

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and getting closer on this one, almost at a point of being able to glue up the front sections.

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I'm looking forward to start shapng the antler down - it's been a long process faffing with the guard and spacers.

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I haven’t done any making for some time.

A local chap that I have done some sheath work before got in touch recently for another sheath and it spurred me to do some more work.

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An odd shaped blade and handle to sheath but I think it should come out quite nicely. Stamp work to do, bit of dye and stitching.
 
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I hadn't realised that I had missed posting this completed knife handling from earlier this year. The blade is a forged piece by Dave Budd and the wood for the handle is a piece of purple dyed and stabilised Maple burl. So as not to detract from the complexity of the wood handle, a simple barrel shape was used for the handle - actually not as simple to make as you would think. Brass bolster with a carbon fibre spacer to break up the transition.

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Something a little bigger. What I call a full tang Leuku, having based the blade off of the Sami Leuku. Usually I put lots of contours in my handles but for this one I’ve get the sides quite flat with rounded top and bottom. Handle material is black Micarta with nickle silver pins. Forced tiger stripe patina to the blade with a convex grind in 52100 steel.

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