and now for something completely different...a sickle?

J. Neilson

J. Neilson

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Yep, a sickle. A customer of mine told me he wanted a cross between an oriental Kama and the Grim Reaper...here's what I came up with...and have been so busy with lately. The double edged blade is approx. 22" from tip to fork and is pattern welded 5160/1018/nickle as is the 5" bottom "spike" blade (the sickle blade was HT'ed from me by Jerry Rados). The shaft is 3' of Ebony with stabilized Buffalo horn caps and Red Jasper spacers. The shaft had nickle pins to match the domed "head" pin. Tess did some very nice turk's head knots and a weave handle wrap...but, she refused to make a sheath.
:rolleyes: This is just the right height for Danny this Halloween, I wonder if we have a black robe around here somewhere?
 
Really nice J!! You're always being inventive! Well, I guess that's been around a few thousands of years, but not made by a current bladesmith by golly!
 
wow J that came out nice. i remember you showing me a sketch of that when i came to visit. thats going to be one happy customer
 
:eek: Holy Hell of a lot of grinding, J. thats the koolest thing I've ever seen you post. by the way if you need a black robe I have one ;)
 
Very nice! That looks like a fun piece! I see a lot of ways that I could hurt myself with that :D.
 
J. your scaring me, you are no longer welcome in Kaiser, Mo. :D :D

Really COOL piece with for sure a lot of time/work involved, very nicely done. Now you need to make the matching small single hand held sickle. :thumbup:

Bill
 
Very interesting tool J.
You can slice the steaks off the cow and flip them onto the barbeque with the other end in one flowing motion! :D
Really good looking scythe.

Mike :thumbdn:
 
mmmmmmm.......Mace like!

Love the handle wrap.

I think it would look cool as a knife too.
Very nice J. and Tess
 
One end sure is a "big-forker"...........

Pretty neat stuff.........Keep-um "rollin"..........

Robert
 
Nice work! :) I don't think anyone can say you swiped their idea on this one, and it's real unique. ;) You been hanging out with Virgil England? :rolleyes: :D
 
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