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Integral dagger

Dawkind said:
Absolutely incredible work my friend......yes, it would be VERY HIGH on The Want List. :cool:
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Thank you Dudley


Norcaldude said:
Wow. I have no use for such a knife but it sets off the *WANT* centers of my brain like mad.
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Sure you do, you never know when you're going to need to dag somebody :D


Mike157 said:
it looks like something a close-to-supernatural soldier would be using.
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Thanks, that's what I was going for, a Fairbairn-Sykes meets Billy Mace Imel sort of thing.


sheathmaker said:
There is stock removal, and there is forging……and then there is Nathan! You are a whole class unto yourself, my friend.:thumbup:
Paul
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:)


Kohai999 said:
You are a beast!
Now make ten more, quick, quick, most ricky tick!!!!!
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This doesn't lend itself to production like that, unfortunately. The majority of my work is a lot smarter because it's designed for manufacturing. With a few geometry calculations and some clever fixturing the majority of my work can be directly milled (side milled, facemilled) with angled cuts but not on this one, it's completely surface milled by iso lines with a fine stepover. It's a really dumb brute force approach that consumes a lot of spindle time and carbide. I really like the design of this piece but it's impractical to produce. I plan to make a couple variations of it in the future, but I don't think I'll ever make ten of them.
 
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This isn't the first time Nathan has caused me to think "Who WAS that masked man..?!"

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^^ This was taken four years ago.

A bow of appreciation for modern technology and old world skill application.

Coop
 
That's a very nice dagger.

Your machining skill is very impressive.

Great job.
 
It looks to have been a challenging project. Most impressive. You had mentioned sometime ago that you were working on a couple of integral daggers, perhaps for the Blade Show?
 
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This isn't the first time Nathan has caused me to think "Who WAS that masked man..?!"

^^ This was taken four years ago.

A bow of appreciation for modern technology and old world skill application.

Coop
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Thanks Coop. You really did a superb job shooting that dagger. You'll have this one to shoot in a few days.

That dagger was smaller and had more curves. It was dainty, more like a queen's dagger. Seeing them juxtaposed like that you can see the close similarities and the differences. With this one I was consciously thinking "a king's dagger". It's big and less swoopy with a much larger more substantial blade and a heavier guard and pommel. But they are closely related.


betzner said:
It looks to have been a challenging project. Most impressive. You had mentioned sometime ago that you were working on a couple of integral daggers, perhaps for the Blade Show?
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That was the plan, but I was only able to complete this one. There is another at Peter's Heat Treat now (this is too big for my oven). It has some preliminary stoning work done, but it's still going to be a while. There is a 3rd that I'm stoning now to a fine grit with the plan to do a mirror polish, but it will probably be Blade Show 2016.

It's not that they're that hard to do, any knucklehead can rub something with a rock, it's just time consuming.
 
Super impressive!! Skills-galore. :thumbup:

Thanks for tackling this project, Nathan. Hope to get a chance to handle it.

- Joe
 
Holy crap... I thought the tang was 90 degrees to the "normal" design with two scales. Then I scrolled down and saw there were 4 scales...cause you used voodoo magic to machine all that... Wow. Soooo cool looking.

Jeremy
 
Nathan, you actually have your machines dancing! I'm sure if you break a bit there is blood spilling :thumbup:
 
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