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Howdy gents-
I've had this for a while but haven't been satisfied with it and so didn't show it here. A while back my stepdad got me a bunch of knife-making gear, amongst it several blades without handles, some with unfinished grinds, etc.
This one had a completed blade, but a massive handle with huge finger grooves. I loved the blade shape (looks a whole lot like an F1) but despised the handle. So I ground the handle down a lot and removed what I could of the finger grooves. Due to the design, it's hard to make a straight line on the 'front' of the handle, which would make it look better if slabs were added. So until I decided whether to handle it 'as is' or try silver soldering an area or two, I just cord wrapped it.
Anyway, it's a pretty decent field blade right now. I'd like to make it a little thicker, though, but putting some rubber-wrap underneath the cord wrap.
Just past the first finger groove, you can see the second depression. It was a consequence of the odd grooves it had initially. It sits too far back for me to really look at it as a 'second' finger groove, and I'd like it to be flat there.
Thanks for looking folks!
I've had this for a while but haven't been satisfied with it and so didn't show it here. A while back my stepdad got me a bunch of knife-making gear, amongst it several blades without handles, some with unfinished grinds, etc.
This one had a completed blade, but a massive handle with huge finger grooves. I loved the blade shape (looks a whole lot like an F1) but despised the handle. So I ground the handle down a lot and removed what I could of the finger grooves. Due to the design, it's hard to make a straight line on the 'front' of the handle, which would make it look better if slabs were added. So until I decided whether to handle it 'as is' or try silver soldering an area or two, I just cord wrapped it.
Anyway, it's a pretty decent field blade right now. I'd like to make it a little thicker, though, but putting some rubber-wrap underneath the cord wrap.
Just past the first finger groove, you can see the second depression. It was a consequence of the odd grooves it had initially. It sits too far back for me to really look at it as a 'second' finger groove, and I'd like it to be flat there.
Thanks for looking folks!
