Beckerhead Knife Making and Modification Thread

[1066vik]

wowowow!
Can't wait to see this done!

Me, too!
The guy doing the furniture is going for as close as he can to a sutton hoo sword - once the guard and pommel are fitted, he's sending them off to be gold plated.
I know nothing about the scab ard they have planned.
I'll get to see the finished sword in mid-June.

 

[daizee]

Almost Done...

 

[1066vik]

are you upsetting the heads back in on themselves, or just cutting them off?

 

[1066vik]

Finally made the scabbard for the falchion I forged almost 2 years ago.
Oak frame, paste waxed, pigskin covered, dyed oxblood, then sno-sealed.

 

[The Warrior]

Finally made the scabbard for the falchion I forged almost 2 years ago.
Oak frame, paste waxed, pigskin covered, dyed oxblood, then sno-sealed.
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Very cool man.

 

[daizee]

woah!!
I bet your hedges are neatly trimmed.

are you upsetting the heads back in on themselves, or just cutting them off?

The one this actually started from was already cut off, but ruler pic is representative. I'll probably cut off future ones too and turn the head into something else.

 

[1066vik]

sanded smooth, they make decent spoon planishing forms

 

[daizee]

 

[gmoneyluv]

Hey daizee ! Those things are gorgeous!

 

[daizee]

Hey daizee ! Those things are gorgeous!

Thanks, G.
I mean... a man has to have a good ice-cream scoop, or where would he be, amiright?

 

[NWFRS]

Reminds me of those old trowel bayonets…

Those that you’ve made are much prettier though! Very nice work.

 

[daizee]

Reminds me of those old trowel bayonets…

Those that you’ve made are much prettier though! Very nice work.

woah, weird!

Though I think you'd end up ruining the crown of your rifling.

just got it dirty. when you have a trowel, everything looks like a weed.

 

[NWFRS]

Same knife I was fussing with last week. Decided to give it a clip-point. I’m really happy with how it feels in the hand now. The blade itself looked pretty warped after stripping, so most of my time was spent filing and honing the blade flat, and getting rid of that uneven secondary bevel. This one had the worst bevel of three. Slices paper beautifully now. Everything took so much longer than it should have because I really didn’t know what I was doing. First attempt. So many mistakes and dead ends. The white liner is .060” Kydex, and I just used SuperGlue to fix it to the handle scales. I’m finished with it for now.

 

[Xr6x]

Same knife I was fussing with last week. Decided to give it a clip-point. I’m really happy with how it feels in the hand now. The blade itself looked pretty warped after stripping, so most of my time was spent filing and honing the blade flat, and getting rid of that uneven secondary bevel. This one had the worst bevel of three. Slices paper beautifully now. Everything took so much longer than it should have because I really didn’t know what I was doing. First attempt. So many mistakes and dead ends. The white liner is .060” Kydex, and I just used SuperGlue to fix it to the handle scales. I’m finished with it for now.

Great Job!

 

[The Warrior]

Nice work man.

 

[knoefz]

Very nice looks... BK16.5 allmost a 17 with ffg

 

[NWFRS]

Thanks! Sure was fun.

 

[daizee]

Straight clip eats your lunch!!

 

[gmoneyluv]

NWFRS Beautiful work! How long did it take?

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[NWFRS]

gmoneyluv

On and off for a few weeks. Maybe 10-20 hours in total. It really was more like an experiment. I learned so many ways to not do things. The same job might have taken me just a few hours in the past, in a real shop, with tools I was familiar with.