Bowie handle

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Ian Fifelski

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I FINALLY got some time to work on this thing. A few days for Easter break.

I really.. enjoy(?) working on handles like this! It is interesting seeing how all of the lines and curves of bowie handles come together. It's a good challenge working on it and not getting a "newbie fat handle" but not going to the other extreme. "You can't sand 'moron'"

I still have a bunch of grits to run up and filing the guard down more. The shape got tweaked a bit in the wrong (thin) direction I think the overall shape is ok. The fit up of the guard isn't perfect either but not bad for first (second kinda) guard I guess.

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Any tips or comments appreciated!

Happy Easter
Ian
 
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The barefoot boy said:
I FINALLY got some time to work on this thing. A few days for Easter break.

I really.. enjoy(?) working on handles like this! It is interesting seeing how all of the lines and curves of bowie handles come together. It's a good challenge working on it and not getting a "newbie fat handle" but not going to the other extreme. "You can't sand 'moron'"

I still have a bunch of grits to run up and filing the guard down more. The shape got tweaked a bit in the wrong (thin) direction I think the overall shape is ok. The fit up of the guard isn't perfect either but not bad for first (second kinda) guard I guess.

Any tips or comments appreciated!

Happy Easter
Ian
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Was there a pic that I am missing
 
I'm not going to show you the knives i made at your age. It looks great. If you used a 3rd party hosting for pics we could see them easier. Make sure that you post a final pic
 
skillgannon said:
I'm not going to show you the knives i made at your age. It looks great. If you used a 3rd party hosting for pics we could see them easier. Make sure that you post a final pic
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Thank you.

Yeah, sorry about them not being embedded. I have been trying to find a 3rd party hosting that works but my old computer is blocking them. I can't even view imgur images that are posted on here... not sure what's up.
 
Just embed them right from your site. Me personally think it’s bad form to just post a link to another site and it kinda bugs me, but I am weird like that lol . You just copy the link that is directly attached to the picture and put it here like this.
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JTknives said:
Just embed them right from your site. Me personally think it’s bad form to just post a link to another site and it kinda bugs me, but I am weird like that lol . You just copy the link that is directly attached to the picture and put it here like this.
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Thank you! That is really nice to know! :thumbsup:

Edit: I edited the original post. Still not working. How do I imbed?
 
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Copy the image link then click on the picture frame above where you type here on the forum, its next to the smiley face. Pase it in there and click insert
 
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