blade/handle transition alignment problem/question

Looks sweet Chris! When do you get hitched? Have you got your sword for the ceremony yet? All the best, Phil
 
Farmer Phil said:
Looks sweet Chris! When do you get hitched? Have you got your sword for the ceremony yet? All the best, Phil
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hey!
thanks. i actually like this knife quite a bit. it is very.. unique. I get married on the 18th of July... 66 days. Before that i have 8 weeks of summer classes where i am taking a full load while working full time. gonna be rough... but at the end of it.. i will be getting married. I am actually borrowing the first sword i ever made. SHEBOP bought my first sword and she is letting me borrow it for the wedding (sweet right?) cause i will not have time to make one. the biggest challenge now is figuring out how to set it up so i can wear it with a tux.

thanks for your intrest!
~Chris
 
That turned out well. Congratulations on the upcoming marriage and good luck with finishing up school while working etc.

Allen
 
I caught this thread late, but took the time to read through it all. The first thing that struck me about the knife in question was the guard....with the curvature in the handle/spine line was, I thought that the guard should have been tilted slightly more forward at the top. My initial though was that the top of the guard looked cocked backwards, which is common place whenever a maker attempts or actually put a guard on that type of knife at 90 degrees. When the knife is finished, more often than not, it gives the illusion of the top of the guard tilting backwards. In order to combat this situation, I always put at least 3-5 degrees of forward tilt on the top of the guard...sometime more depending on the specific blade.
 
mr. Caffrey,
i apprecate your critique. I admit, when i filed the shoulders i was a bit hurried. I dont know if i would have done it any different with more time, however i will be sure to try the forward slant on my next attempt. The one thing about a right angle is that i used a machine using an electrical charge to burn out the hole, and i am not sure how would have done it at an angle. It is certainly food for thought, and i appreciate your eye in the matter.
thanks again so much
~chris
 
Your knife looks sweet in my opinion. Yeah, maybe a flared handle would give it more style points, but it already has plenty of style and nice grinds to boot. Good job!
 
Knifemaker87 said:
The one thing about a right angle is that i used a machine using an electrical charge to burn out the hole, and i am not sure how would have done it at an angle. It is certainly food for thought, and i appreciate your eye in the matter.
thanks again so much
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EDMing Guard Slots?!?!?!!?!? Geez, you machinist types are all alike :D

Don't forget when fitting a guard that you have the shoulder of the blade to cover a little extra space there that could allow for a slight cant. Also, just because you EDM the guard slot doesn't mean that you can't clean it up with a file/stones/etc to add a little angle to the top and bottom of the slot.

I like this piece a lot. Wish you could make the hammer-in this weekend to show it off :)

-d
 
hey Deker,
i really wish i could come too. it would be cool to get critique from a 3D perspective. and after people have held it.

See.. i actually milled the guard first.. and then i asked one of the other machinists how to make good square corners.. and he recommended burning the hole out.. so i had a little training on the ELOX edm machine. cool stuff! the whole slanting thing wouldn't be that big of a deal.. just another hurdle.

I agree about the flair on the handle. I just didnt have enough material in the piece of wood, and it was the only piece of exotic/hard/awesome wood i had.

hopefully this is another lesson learned!
thanks again for all the help and feedback
~Chris
 
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