Hunting knife with stingray sheath

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Frederiek

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After 2½ years of sporadically working on it, I have finished this big hunter in O1 steel. Scales are stabilised spalted beech with vulcanised fiber spacers. Decorated with vine filework, stainless corby rivets, stainless mosaic pin and leather lanyard with beech beads from leftover scale material. The sheath is made of vegetable tanned leather with a stingray skin inlay.

Criticism is most welcome but of course I hope you like it ;) A first time for me working with stingray, tough stuff!

Frederiek

















 
That is flat-out beautiful work, almost too nice to use. But it looks totally functional, too. Let us see more of your designs.
 
The knife is very nice, but i really like that beautiful sheat!!!
It is very elegant, and i bet it is not that easy to tame all those glassy beads, isn't it?
 
Thanks very much!! A new one is coming up soon, but I'm terribly slow.

Stingray is indeed tough as nails, but it looks and feels like nothing else. It's like some hypermodern material but then it comes from a fish :D When you understand the perks of it, it's not too difficult either.
 
The filework is filled with the 2-component epoxy adhesive I also used to glue spacers/scales/blade together before placing the corbies. I leave the scales rather oversized at the spine so it doesn't run away too much. I heat it up slightly with a heat gun to get it in every corner. Although the resin is somewhat translucent, the liners and underlying steel is dark enough to make it appear black. Next time however, I'm going to try out adding colour pigments for resin casting.

It also worked with red, but I'd think red filler would be awesome.

 
Frederiek said:
The filework is filled with the 2-component epoxy adhesive I also used to glue spacers/scales/blade together before placing the corbies. I leave the scales rather oversized at the spine so it doesn't run away too much. I heat it up slightly with a heat gun to get it in every corner. Although the resin is somewhat translucent, the liners and underlying steel is dark enough to make it appear black. Next time however, I'm going to try out adding colour pigments for resin casting.

It also worked with red, but I'd think red filler would be awesome.
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So you puddle the epoxy in the open space created by file. Got it and thanks. I use color pigment with epoxy when needed with good results.
Interesting and thanks for the info.

Gary
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Yes exactly, it's really easy. If you find any bubbles after sanding you can give it another layer of epoxy. It sands well and even polishes to a certain extent.
 
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