hi everyone...
i guess this post is sort of a prologue to my up-coming wilderness gathering write-up...
Sir Chris gave me a good telling off for not bringing along my Greenman hilting effort to the w.g. ...he has been waiting nearly a year to see it lol! in the week leading up i had planned to do a make-shift sheath for it for safety as well as to protect from accidental damage but just didnt get round to it....so....
here i am, as usual, slopping around in post-gathering blues....also still very VERY sore that i couldnt make it to the moot as well...and, just as last year, i have no motivation, cant concentrate....blah blah....won't say more as i dont want to spoil the write-up. anyway....as therapy i decided to do a sheath for the knife....so Chris, at least when you finally get to hold it you will be holding the completed article!!! (as for Sir Dave, you can stroke it on monday....thats gonna really annoy Chris lol!)
ok....seeings as Sir Daves work is so unique i decided to try and step outside of my own creative box and do something a bit aesthetically different as well as structurally different...it took me three attempts...over 2 days...the first 2 went in the bin when virtually completed as i wasnt happy....4mm shoulder, monster welt, handstitched with artificial sinew, its dyed a very dark brown with green mixed in and polished with 3 layers of black finsh and painted with edgekote. i decided to both rivet and stitch the belt loop down...i'm no more a fan of rivets than anyone else but i've got to admit i think a rivet there is sensible as if by wear or accident the stitching goes theres that to hold it place for an age. the belt loop has been burnished (as have all edges) and grooved and i decided to attach an antique brass d-ring to match the knife a little. i've tried to make the sheath so exactly that it grips pretty much equally at the handles leading edges as well as with the strap. also...i've left space inside the sheath so that even in time, should the leather slightly loosen or wear, the knife can continue to be pushed in and be gripped the same (hence the 3 attempts). i've also made a little cut-out at the top of the sheath as well as shaped it to....i dunno...feel free to laugh....to be more ''orc-ish''....nasty, mean.....i dunno.....daves knives just look to me like the sort of thing sauron would collect. and thats a compliment lol.
this week i'll be re-doing it all again though...i'm going to change it so that the poppers do up at the back. i think that will make it look more balanced and will of course help to eliminate accidental opening....this will also enable me to do a nice embossed decorative border like the g.b. set i did a couple of weeks ago. and if i remember i'll take pictures and do a w.i.p. for this one.
so....love it or hate it!!! (and please let it rip!)....drum roll.....lol!
lololololololol!!!! the flippin links dont work for the first time ever!!! haha!!! hold on brb....
and heres the knife for anyone who missed it, Greenman blade by Sir Dave Budd...stabilised oak burl impregnated with green resin, dark green and brass liners with 2 brass corbys:
i guess this post is sort of a prologue to my up-coming wilderness gathering write-up...
Sir Chris gave me a good telling off for not bringing along my Greenman hilting effort to the w.g. ...he has been waiting nearly a year to see it lol! in the week leading up i had planned to do a make-shift sheath for it for safety as well as to protect from accidental damage but just didnt get round to it....so....
here i am, as usual, slopping around in post-gathering blues....also still very VERY sore that i couldnt make it to the moot as well...and, just as last year, i have no motivation, cant concentrate....blah blah....won't say more as i dont want to spoil the write-up. anyway....as therapy i decided to do a sheath for the knife....so Chris, at least when you finally get to hold it you will be holding the completed article!!! (as for Sir Dave, you can stroke it on monday....thats gonna really annoy Chris lol!)
ok....seeings as Sir Daves work is so unique i decided to try and step outside of my own creative box and do something a bit aesthetically different as well as structurally different...it took me three attempts...over 2 days...the first 2 went in the bin when virtually completed as i wasnt happy....4mm shoulder, monster welt, handstitched with artificial sinew, its dyed a very dark brown with green mixed in and polished with 3 layers of black finsh and painted with edgekote. i decided to both rivet and stitch the belt loop down...i'm no more a fan of rivets than anyone else but i've got to admit i think a rivet there is sensible as if by wear or accident the stitching goes theres that to hold it place for an age. the belt loop has been burnished (as have all edges) and grooved and i decided to attach an antique brass d-ring to match the knife a little. i've tried to make the sheath so exactly that it grips pretty much equally at the handles leading edges as well as with the strap. also...i've left space inside the sheath so that even in time, should the leather slightly loosen or wear, the knife can continue to be pushed in and be gripped the same (hence the 3 attempts). i've also made a little cut-out at the top of the sheath as well as shaped it to....i dunno...feel free to laugh....to be more ''orc-ish''....nasty, mean.....i dunno.....daves knives just look to me like the sort of thing sauron would collect. and thats a compliment lol.
this week i'll be re-doing it all again though...i'm going to change it so that the poppers do up at the back. i think that will make it look more balanced and will of course help to eliminate accidental opening....this will also enable me to do a nice embossed decorative border like the g.b. set i did a couple of weeks ago. and if i remember i'll take pictures and do a w.i.p. for this one.
so....love it or hate it!!! (and please let it rip!)....drum roll.....lol!
lololololololol!!!! the flippin links dont work for the first time ever!!! haha!!! hold on brb....
and heres the knife for anyone who missed it, Greenman blade by Sir Dave Budd...stabilised oak burl impregnated with green resin, dark green and brass liners with 2 brass corbys:
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and I think I'm very safe in saying that anyone would be proud to wear, own and use such beautiful work. A great family heirloom in the making 
The style is great and the lines and welt are perfect. The studs work well by the looks but I do admit I'd be interested to see the Sam Browns version too 
