Becker Swords in the making?

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I wish...

I have had so much time off lately, too much time. I had set to design a couple of knives for personal use and amusement. The motor on my belt sander died. I am in Europe, so that isn't exactly easy considering shipping costs and the rest of the issues with customs.

Anyway, I thought up these two blades (swords). In my personal knife designs, mostly they mimic the Becker handles, with small modifications. Why? Because the handle shape is simple, and effective at keeping the hand onto the "safe" part of the blade. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to be Ethan, but I love his designs and when something works, go with it.

Because of a personal situation, I am finally leaving Europe soon and returning home (to the US). If Ka-Bar/BK&T doesn't do something like what is shown below, I might have to do it once I'm settled. The concept is simple, an over-sized BK5, with the designs Ethan and Jerry Fisk talk about, just different blade lengths. Yes these were drawn freehand so the draw marks on them kinda suck.

Hopefully, Ethan and Ka-Bar can do this. I got the idea from a forum post.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1019068-I-had-a-dream-about-a-Kabar-sword

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Hmmm, I like the looks of that big one. Lemme pop on over into Solidworks and see what I can whip up.
 
About one and a half times the handle right? That is what it looks like in the picture at least. And am I to assume the blade is 16 inches on that big one? That is what I am going with thus far. We'll see where that gets us. The handle looks pretty comfy in 3D at 1.5 times it's original length.
 
DerekH said:
About one and a half times the handle right? That is what it looks like in the picture at least. And am I to assume the blade is 16 inches on that big one? That is what I am going with thus far. We'll see where that gets us. The handle looks pretty comfy in 3D at 1.5 times it's original length.
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Well the handle is about 1.5 times the regular size. Thing is, if you use the choil, it turns out to be a two hander AND the thumb ramp actually acts as a guard. Blade on the large one is 16 inches. My original plan was to have these done out of 5/32 in thick 5160. why 5/32? because that speed which Mr. Fisk seems to talk about so much would be hard to achieve (IMO) with a thicker blade (3/16). You would get a huge, heavy piece of steel. With 5/32 of 5160 you still get a large tough blade, but still it is fast enough, I think...
 
I was thinking more like the Hanwei Banshee but Kabar style. 21-22 inch blade 1/4 inch thick stock, slightly upswept blade. Think Chinese saber with a hand and a half handle ..... YUM !
 
Derek can you do that without the swedge, but with a fuller? Or a false swedge ? I would like to see that, and back curved just a smidge ?
 
23.65" overall length. Damn, that is really cool looking.
 
Gonna blow this up with massive pics, but it has to be done.

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Did up the version Silver was wanting, and fine tuned it a bit. New one is 27.5" overall, on top, 2.07lbs.

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Looks like a fun project... Too bad I'm too busy for that now. Maybe in a year or so... :D Will be interested to see if anything comes of this.
 
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