Lil Scandi

[Shaughnessy]

 

[lonepine]

Shaughnessy: That is one nice knife! I like traditional Scandinavian style blades like yours, and they tend to look nice and sleek, partly because they seem to traditionally not have a finger guard of any type. In fact it sometimes seems to me that they were DESIGNED to make them as dangerous as possible by the combination of no finger guard, tapered toward the front and a cutting edge that starts right at the handle. But boy, it sure looks nice. I own two of them myself.

- Paul Meske, Wisconsin
Alias LonePine

 

[Shaughnessy]

Thanks Paul,
I know exactly what you mean. You can find scandis with guards but they are on "children's blades". Theres a little different way of thinking about how a blade should be used IMO. The blade was ground by Ivan Campos in Brazil, and I just did the handle work, but tried to stay as "traditional" as possible with the shape, etc.

I appreciate your comments, and thanks for lookin.

Larry

 

[Makermook]

Very, very nice. Great lines, beautiful wood...

Re the lack of a guard: it's my understanding that these knives were traditionally used on the pull stroke, eliminating the need for a guard.

 

[Shaughnessy]

Thanks Mook,
Thats interesting on the whole "pull" cutting thing, never heard that before. :thumbup: Larry

 

[PIndelicato]

Lovely handle work, Larry! Redwood burl and???

 

[Shaughnessy]

Lovely handle work, Larry! Redwood burl and???

Thanks Paul,
Ivan Campos wanted some snakewood and burls I had, so he traded me a few of these scandi blades, and couple kitchen blades. I used redwood burl black corian and copper spacers/pin. Fun little blades to finish. Larry