A little bit of double grinding!

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Nick has taken another step up with this one.
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I LOVE daggers. That is a SWEEEEET looking knife. Clean straight grinds, and modest but stately furniture. Very nice.

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Thank you all so much for the kind words! I really do appreciate it!
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(I'm beaming here).

Terrill Hoffman rocks! He is very much the artist here.

This knife was in Eugene, but I did quite a few minor changes to it before sending it to Terrill.

I put different wire in it (I actually got it twisted evenly this time
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) And I rubbed the Oosic out with polishing paper so it looks a little deeper than before.

I also made the pommel even
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and more defined.

I want to thank all of you forumites here for the loads of help with all of my stupid questions and also for support.

My knives have improved leaps since I found this place (or so I will keep telling myself).

Now if only we could get that darn Bruce Bump to show us one of the daggers that he had on HIS table!!! Come on Bruce, please please!!!

Thanks
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Nick
 
That's a good looking dagger. Slim and clean. The handle is very cool too. I like it!
 
I forgot to ask...can I hear some suggestions on a sheath?

I am thinking that 416 stainless lined with velvet would be kind of cool.

Ideas?

Thanks!
Nick
 
A beauty! Tell us a little how you made it. How did you cut the twist in the handle?
 
Thanks Nikk
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I did the fluting in the handle with a rotary tool and files. I drew lines on the oosic with a little jig I made out of wood and string, and then started the grooves with a round bit in the Ryobi (dremel).

After they were roughed in I trued them and smoothed them with a chain-saw file, then a dowel wrapped with paper.

The grooves for the twisted wire were the same process but I started with a very small burr, and then used a needle file that I ground down to a knife edge.

I use a Quick Grip clamp to help hold it as I go.

Now on this sheath construction... If I do it out of 416: should I mill a slot into one half (lengthwise) and then pin the other side to it?

Is there someone that would tell me how they do theirs? Bruce Evans does beauties in ns...Bruce?

Thanks
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Nick

[This message has been edited by NickWheeler (edited 05-18-2001).]
 
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