Bronze knife

[milesofalaska]

I'm lost wax casting knives as something new. This is a neck knife, design is based on a 2,000-year-old Celtic knife. When in wax, before casting, it is easy to add stampings and alterations to express creativity or fill an order with custom work. So far hand made sheaths. Sometimes my mammoth ivory since I have a lot, Other ideas are, a cast copper sheath. Bronze was once all there was available for knives! Having a bronze blade can be an education in what such a knife can cut, how it performs, and thus have first-hand knowledge of 'the bronze age' Like "Yes it can carve wood, skin game." Do some basic modern chores like open boxes cut string. Neck knives were more common long ago, as a way to carry your cutting tool. Today this can be out of the way, out of site, worn anywhere and double as looking like a piece of jewelry. I'm also in business selling custom knives and we all know selling can be 'how low can you go.' One answer for the tourist trade-gift shop is, "How many do you want?" Just one of my markets. I of course create meteorite knives, and custom Damascus for people with more money. This is an idea that could interest others trying to make your hobby pay the bills. I'm having fun with other cast knife ideas, some in copper, but In the Tumbler right now after the cast. This is the first one.

 

[milesofalaska]

Adding more pictures. When someone says 'casting' a form of copying, we may think 'mass production.' So while the knife is in the wax stage, it is easy to 'customize' so each one is similar but unique as well. These are just 'some options,' I have come up with

 

[Selfe Made Knives]

I cast a bronze palstave axe and a socketed axe a few years back. It was great fun, but also gave a great insight into our ancestors and the huge skill set that they owned.

 

[milesofalaska]

I cast a bronze palstave axe and a socketed axe a few years back. It was great fun, but also gave a great insight into our ancestors and the huge skill set that they owned.

I agree it’s an insight. I lived nomadic subsistence here in Alaska most of my life but a senior now in a village with electric, a shop etc. I like to mix the primitive with the modern.