First finished knife Fang

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Hanzo Kendo

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Hello Gents,

as a long time artist, focusing mostly ceramics, painting and illustration, I have finally come back to working with metals. This is my first completed knife with sheath. I like it quite a bit and it has been handy to have a good knife around. I enjoyed every minute of designing, grinding, and finishing this piece. Its not as perfectly executed as the original designs but, as my blade-craft skills move along it will be easier to maintain the balance of form and function. So for now I'll just keep working on it.

Critical comments and suggestions are always welcome and implored. You can only get so far without external input.

OAL 10"
Thickness: 1/8"
Steel: 1-O tool
Handle: Walnut
Sheath: 10 oz. vegi cow hide hand stitched and studded



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Nice for your first work I would say. And it looks very handy for hand to hand fighting? I would focus on keeping your grind lines more crisp and not blend your flats into the edge bevel. Everything is too rounded off... or I would just keep grinding your edge back into either a flat grind or convex. You've attempted a scandi grind and those look better (to me) when the grind line is sharp.

You might also consider doing more of a satin finish by sanding only from tip to ricasso or vice versa..keep all your lines running in that fashion. If you did your spine that way on a very flat surface then you would maintain crisper edge lines too.

Keep at it!
 
Scott,

thank you for your response. It was indeed designed to be a fighter style knife. I agree fully with your comment on the grind lines, I was having a heck of a time keeping steady free hand sanding with my 2" belt sander. I was unable to find a better way to put on the main bevel, was going for a mild convex grind, other than free handing it over the slacked portion of the belt.

Do you know of or happen to have any reference materials for using a jig type setup for beveling blades with large bellies like this one? Practice does make perfect, but then again smart monkeys use tools.

Thanks again.
 
search for Fred Rowe's bubble jig... pretty handy little device. but when you round things off like that you can always go back and grind your flats down...
 
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