Frame handle stiletto

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Jason Fry

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Here's a stiletto style dagger that I just finished, full custom from bar stock. My brother, Travis, has an identical blade. We started with a pair of blades and a challenge to push ourselves to more complex work. The blade is 154 CM stainless and the fittings are 416 stainless. The handle is mother of pearl with domed nickel silver pins, a fileworked frame, coined liners, and carved bolsters. The guard has shell ends, and carved studs. The studs are stainless screws that I shaped the head and screwed into tapped holes in the guard that were put there to hold them. Overall length is just short of 14 inches with a 9 inch blade. I'll have it on my table at the Dallas show June 13/14.
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thats cool how was it doming the pins over the pearl I need to make a dagger with black lip pearl and I am a little nerves about doming the pins
 
This was my first experience with MOP, and I was nervous as heck on those pins, Dave. I used NS for the pins even though everything else is stainless, mostly to make them dome easier. I domed one side before I put the pins in. Other than that, it was hundreds (thousands?) of taps with a 2 ounce hammer. Surprisingly, no malfunctions.
 
If you sell this one before I finish mine, I'll be mad at you. Plus you won't get pictures of them together. Looks really nice.
 
One of the contengencies on a sale is going to be that I get to take it to Kansas City for the ICCE. Think you can finish yours by September ;)

Not enough time for a trip out for pro pics before the Dallas show, especially with Blade this weekend.
 
Nice work. I like the combination of patterns and textures. There is a lot to look at there, which is a key element to a good presentation piece. Did you reference any historical pieces or drawings for this? Is it location and period-specific or a hybrid of influences?
 
CapitalizedLiving said:
Nice work. I like the combination of patterns and textures. There is a lot to look at there, which is a key element to a good presentation piece. Did you reference any historical pieces or drawings for this? Is it location and period-specific or a hybrid of influences?
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There was not a particular knife that I had in mind for a pattern. I looked at quite a few google images of daggers, stilettos, poignards, MS daggers, etc. Basically this knife is what came out of my head after looking at all that. Things were in flux all the way to the end. I had the shell bolster and roped frame with coined spacers in my original sketches, but I changed the spacer and guard several times before I settled on one. The shell carving on the quillons and the carved studs were a last minute addition, because the guard at that point was the only part that wasn't embellished somehow.
 
I really dig it Jason. Love seeing mother of pearl on anything. My only preference would have been a curved guard but that my preference. It's slick either way.

Great job.
 
Thanks, Phillip. I went back and forth on curved vs. straight. I drew it both ways several times, and looked at alot of pictures of historical pieces trying to decide.
 
Well, this was unexpected!
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It'll be on its way to Caleb for some glamour shots this week.

Other winners were Tim Lambkin for best tactical and best fixed blade, and Ronnie Packard for best folder.
 
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