Another hair-brained idea... pin-up knife

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Look into the "Egg Beater Series" by Stuart Davis.

http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/davis_s-bio.htm

He used an egg beater as a subject for his paintings for years. They started out looking like abstract cubistic egg beaters, but as time went by he abstracted the compositions based on the forms, light, reflections, textures etc., of the egg beater.

The final compositions looked nothing like the original subject… but were all derivative.
 
"With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound...." reminds me of me at the grinder :D There's not nearly enough music in ShopTalk, why is that?!? :confused: I can't be the only one who cranks the tunes while working...

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I just made the last of the changes to the blade that I plan to make, so I'm going to send it off to HT now. I added a curvy swedge to the tip to carry forward the curved line of the spine to the tip. Never seemed quite right to me that the curve would crash into a straight line and just stop there.

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The blade is on its way to HT today. The only other thing I did on this project is to attach the pommel to the handle. If you're curious, I dropped the nut into the handle, attached a small piece of all-thread to the pommel and stuck the other end of the all-thread into the hole in the back and spun it until it connected with the nut, then tightened it down.

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Here’s what I’ve got my version boiled down to, so far. Still need to heat threat and finish it all up.

“Derivative“...

I think I’ll call her,… Marge Simpson. LOL

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Thanks Greg. Your "pin up" idea got me thinking...

I've always kind of had the hots for Marge,... lucky Homer!
 
The blade is back from HT, and I've sanded off the soot and begun flattening and thinning the blade. Anyway, the blade is still a bit too thick near the edge... I'm going to keep working on it until I'm satisfied.
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I finally got around to doing the blade map. It's clear there is still work to do, but on the whole (under the circumstances) I'm pretty pleased with how it's going. BTW, what should be my targets for a Bowie style?

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Last look at this one. It's getting close enough to complete now that any differences in appearance would be hard to spot, so this will be the last photos.

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P.S. This is my sharpest knife yet... I just finished stoning and stropping it... then shaved a patch on my arm. Sadly, it's too big to go in any of my display cases. Oh well. NEXT!
 
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I think that for the visual flow of the knife, it would have been better if the grindline would have followed the line of the edge and not the line of the spine.
But that is only my oppinion
 
These knives were meant to be stickers more than cutters I think. That's where visual just doens't quite work for me. I would have made the spine straight from the back of the guard to the clip and either, like Hengelo said, followed the edge with the grind or take it all the way to the spine. But I still think you did good, just some food for thought for the next one. :thumbup:
 
Oh, I seriously doubt there will be a "next" trench knife for me. :)

I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I learned this lesson. Thanks for the feedback, though.

- Greg
 
first off let me say that this is one cool knife. the only thing that I can fault would be this spot
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where the spine meets the clip / swedge for me creates a disruption in the flow of the knife that stops the eye and just kinda looks funny.
keep up the good work I'm always interested to see what you will come up with next.
J.leclair
 
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Also, this thread was a year and a half ago.
 
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