I see on the woodlore site they are now selling hand forged knife blades..
apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere...
apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere...
Woodlore selling knife blades
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Julius Pettersson was recently featured in one of RM's programmes where it showed how he forged a laminated blade, fasinating stuff. It also showed RM making a handle for his new knife.
No Petterson's as far as I can remember but www.brisa.fi will sell you an equally good skandi blade from a huge selection for less of the folding stuff!
I bought a Brusletto blade from Brisa for much less - not handmade though.
Brisa also sell Finnish Lauri blades for just a few euros each - although I have not tried them myself I hear good things about them. Not everyone is into knifemaking but they are so cheap that many might be tempted to have a go, on the grounds that you've not wasted much cash if you mess it up.
Anyone tried them?
Brisa also sell Finnish Lauri blades for just a few euros each - although I have not tried them myself I hear good things about them. Not everyone is into knifemaking but they are so cheap that many might be tempted to have a go, on the grounds that you've not wasted much cash if you mess it up.
Anyone tried them?
I recently picked up a 63mm Lauri Carbon PT (progressive tempered) blade from Brisa, who incidentally have as good service as everybody says. I haven't got round to putting a handle on it yet, but it's looks like a quality piece of work. It took a piece out of my block of handle wood without the slightest trouble, and the centre being hardened to 63 rockwells should make it a great little knife for detailed work/ whittling, or whatever, and will compliment my bigger mora well.
Doc said:
Doc, I quite like the Finnish Lauri blades, this is one I prepared earlier
The only thing that I would say about them is that they can be very prone to rust, alhough this particular one seems to be pretty good, the other option is that they make stainless.
That is stunning work.
The PT blades are very hard (like some Rosellis) -if not too brittle could be very good indeed.
Looking at Brisa I see a carbon 9.5cm Lauri blade is 6.1 euros and a block of grade 1 curly birch 3.5 euros.
Hand made top quality scandi knife for £6.50 plus effort.......hmm.....vague thoughts of a group buy?
The PT blades are very hard (like some Rosellis) -if not too brittle could be very good indeed.
Looking at Brisa I see a carbon 9.5cm Lauri blade is 6.1 euros and a block of grade 1 curly birch 3.5 euros.
Hand made top quality scandi knife for £6.50 plus effort.......hmm.....vague thoughts of a group buy?
Interesting cork handle.leon-1 said:
...or is that a birch burl table mat I see? Seriously though, nice knife
, and I might have to have a go at the above prices. SWMBO may kill me if I don't finish the bathroom first though. Eh?
What's that? Too many smilies? I haven't used this one yet::
Povarian said:Interesting cork handle.
The handle is Afzelia burl, but I must admit that it works well with the cork matt
, the rest of it is nickel silver ferrule and spacers with buffalo horn. The blade is the PT95. It's also the first scandi that I had made (If I can do it anyone can).It doesn't matter where you get the blade from, it's just making it that matters
. Including the sheath for it it cost under £20 to make (purely material cost) and in my opinion that ain't bad.
I think I'll be working on the bathroom this weekend...
Where do you get the horn and silver from?
Where do you get the horn and silver from?
I've got a few blades from Brisa over the last couple of years ranging from the cheap and chearfull like these:
http://www.brisa.fi/kank.html
http://www.brisa.fi/lauric.html
through hand made ones like
http://www.brisa.fi/puro.html
to one of these:
http://www.brisa.fi/poul2.html (the one at the bottom)
Always excellent friendly service, and every blade I have bought (yep even that last one!) is easily worth 2 or 3 times the price.
Most are still work in progress but there is a piccie of the KanKaanpa in my gallery of BB, that knife took me about an hour to make, most of which was persuading the brass ferrule to fit over the tang. If someone as inept at handywork as me can do it anyone can!
http://www.brisa.fi/kank.html
http://www.brisa.fi/lauric.html
through hand made ones like
http://www.brisa.fi/puro.html
to one of these:
http://www.brisa.fi/poul2.html (the one at the bottom)
Always excellent friendly service, and every blade I have bought (yep even that last one!) is easily worth 2 or 3 times the price.
Most are still work in progress but there is a piccie of the KanKaanpa in my gallery of BB, that knife took me about an hour to make, most of which was persuading the brass ferrule to fit over the tang. If someone as inept at handywork as me can do it anyone can!
Or take a look at some of the Brisa kits, they are a blade, a block of curley birch plus a bit of fibre, a disk of antler and depending on the kit a brass ferrule and end cap and a nice leather sheath. Basically just the bits you would buy seperatly to make a knife but for a few less euros. I've had a couple of these kits (a laplander and a nordic) and they are excellent value for money. Going that way you wil end uk with a very nice pukko (with a sheath) for about £13 or leku for about £18Doc said:
dtalbot said:
Thats right, mine came with quite a big secondary bevel, which I ground back and then very lightly convexed the bevels.
No sign of a secondary on mine, and I think Dennis would have replaced yours if you had told him based on the almost impossible to find faults on some half price blades I've bought he had classed as seconds from him! Savings of many tens of euros for faults that take 5 minutes to sort out (if they need sorting at all at least one had a 'fault' which I class as adding individual character to a hand forged blade!)
Yep, drill it out to slighty undersize then carfully needle file to size or you can carefully heat the tang (mind you don't destroy the temper on the blade) and burn it in.
For an excellent tutorial take a look at: http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5064
And for a non traditional way of doing it:
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5634
The knife in the second thread is in my collection and is fantastic
For an excellent tutorial take a look at: http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5064
And for a non traditional way of doing it:
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5634
The knife in the second thread is in my collection and is fantastic
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