10" San Mai Integral Sub Hilt Fighter - Work In Progress

[J-siah]

Wow, I almost had a heart attack.

That blade is gorgeous, awesome work.

How do you shape your micarta, Dremel?

-Josiah

 

[ArielSalaverria]

My regular grinder with sanding belts and then by hand

I just posted the finished knife pictures in this thread:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=599427

Ariel

 

[Mark Redmon]

That's amazing Ariel! At first glance, the pins looked like mosaic, but they aren't! Are they individually set, or is that cable? I've never seen anything like that before... could you enlighten us as to the technique?


-Mark

 

[toecutter]

HOLY CRAP!! That is cool as hell!! Thanks for the walk along.

Nathan

 

[ArielSalaverria]

That's amazing Ariel! At first glance, the pins looked like mosaic, but they aren't! Are they individually set, or is that cable? I've never seen anything like that before... could you enlighten us as to the technique? -Mark

Mark, no thing special about technique, it's just a small cable strand from a bigger diameter one that I usually use to make cable damascus

Ariel

 

[Mark Redmon]

Thanks for the info Ariel, and thanks for showing us this great project!

-Mark

 

[dixieforge2]

awsome knife Ariel!

 

[Ruben Calo]

ESPECTACULAR trabajo Ariel, Te felicito!!!

Very very good, magnificent!!!

 

[mhawg]

I hope you don't get tired of hearing it but your stuff just blows my mind!

 

[pesky_human]

Yeah...that's uhh...just wow...

Going to just go ahead and pick my jaw up off the floor so that I can check out your other work. ©

 

[pesky_human]

Oh wait - I saw some of your tutorials earlier today and have already seen some of your other stuff. Your steel patterns are superlative, and your tutorials are great. Thanks for the inspiration. ©