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Pretty new; I have immensely enjoyed Mr Wheeler's more recent WIP and the older WIP done by Mr Vestal. So I am going to give it a try.
This will document the building of my 5th -11th Loveless patterns. My first 3 are long gone and my fourth is rusting on the bench (a testament to the fact that D2 is not stainless). There will be a few tips/tricks and I encourage comments. These are as close to a Loveless knife as my current ability will allow. The first sequence is a bit boring. I started taking pictures not intending to share and then thought that people might find this interesting so the pictures get better. So that said here goes:
A small sample of the beverages that were injured during the making of this
A small sample of patterns. My thought is that if I am going to imitate somebody's work; do it correctly and faithfully! Part of that faithful duplication is that all my blades come from steel patterns. I am enough of a weirdo that I would show up at the Loveless shop with plates of steel and scribe patterns to steel instead of risking the transition from steel/paper/steel. I also go through this process with my original designs.
Clamp a pattern to steel and scribe the profile; I think pretty self explanatory.
My weapon of choice when it comes to profiling blades (A vintage Powermatic metal cutting band-saw; I love older equipment). IIRC it weighed in at a whopping 1200 lbs. Don't mind the shop It came to a screeching halt when I was diagnosed with cancer. At least there is a roof and four walls (29x32 with 10' walls) just wish it was insulated.
Tough to see (scribe lines intact)but these are cut to profile; pretty close but will need some grinder time.
Ground to profile. I try to split the scribed line so that my finished product is as close to the the real thing as possible.
As compared to the previous picture you can see the guard slots milled in along with bolt holes and lanyard tube holes. These two steps are critical to getting a Loveless pattern as close as can be to an original. In previous posts I have thanked those that have helped me to get this far in my short knife making career (1.5 yrs), I would like to also thank (genuinely) Mr. Garsson for providing the impetus to get to this point. I will simply say that he made a comment (in the normal Garsson way) to me a while back that pushed me into finding out as much as I could about Loveless knives and about making them. I still know nothing but I am learning by the day.
Ready to taper tangs. I "groove" the handle area straight out the butt of the knife instead of trying to make a divot in the center of the handle. I use a height gauge and surface plate to scribe reference lines on the butt and then grind the groove from guard to butt to the depth of the scribed lines.
To be continued...
This will document the building of my 5th -11th Loveless patterns. My first 3 are long gone and my fourth is rusting on the bench (a testament to the fact that D2 is not stainless). There will be a few tips/tricks and I encourage comments. These are as close to a Loveless knife as my current ability will allow. The first sequence is a bit boring. I started taking pictures not intending to share and then thought that people might find this interesting so the pictures get better. So that said here goes:
A small sample of the beverages that were injured during the making of this
A small sample of patterns. My thought is that if I am going to imitate somebody's work; do it correctly and faithfully! Part of that faithful duplication is that all my blades come from steel patterns. I am enough of a weirdo that I would show up at the Loveless shop with plates of steel and scribe patterns to steel instead of risking the transition from steel/paper/steel. I also go through this process with my original designs.
Clamp a pattern to steel and scribe the profile; I think pretty self explanatory.
My weapon of choice when it comes to profiling blades (A vintage Powermatic metal cutting band-saw; I love older equipment). IIRC it weighed in at a whopping 1200 lbs. Don't mind the shop It came to a screeching halt when I was diagnosed with cancer. At least there is a roof and four walls (29x32 with 10' walls) just wish it was insulated.
Tough to see (scribe lines intact)but these are cut to profile; pretty close but will need some grinder time.
Ground to profile. I try to split the scribed line so that my finished product is as close to the the real thing as possible.
As compared to the previous picture you can see the guard slots milled in along with bolt holes and lanyard tube holes. These two steps are critical to getting a Loveless pattern as close as can be to an original. In previous posts I have thanked those that have helped me to get this far in my short knife making career (1.5 yrs), I would like to also thank (genuinely) Mr. Garsson for providing the impetus to get to this point. I will simply say that he made a comment (in the normal Garsson way) to me a while back that pushed me into finding out as much as I could about Loveless knives and about making them. I still know nothing but I am learning by the day.
Ready to taper tangs. I "groove" the handle area straight out the butt of the knife instead of trying to make a divot in the center of the handle. I use a height gauge and surface plate to scribe reference lines on the butt and then grind the groove from guard to butt to the depth of the scribed lines.
To be continued...
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