Lord of the Jungle

ScottRoush

ScottRoush

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Here is one that started as one thing and morphed into something else. I recently made a Hmong bush knife blade to send to a friend working in Thailand and thought I would make one for myself to use around the house. But once I started forging it, I couldn't help but to play. I started turning it into a seax but then I thought it needed a swedge... so it became sort of a Viking Jungle Bowie. Some of the hmong blades I've seen have collar-like guards on them so I made a tsuba-like guard from wagon wheel wrought and complete with hammered copper seppa. The handle is East Indian rosewood, copper spacer and eucalyptus burl.

The blade is 13" long, 3/16" at the ricasso with distal taper. The steel is Aldo 1084. I decided to finish the blade to completion before heat treat to see what a clay quench would look like with minimal post-heat treat finishing. I hit it with some 400 and 600 just to get the lines running to the tip. Well... there is an active hardening line but it is mixed with all sort of interesting artifacts from the heat treat. I'm not settled on the finish yet, it may change according to whoever the customer turns out to be (it will be going up for sale.. with scabbard).

I feel like going out and slashing and burning my backwoods.


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I really like it! It just kind of "speaks" to me not sure what it is or if its the whole package.
 
That looks like a very effective design for the purpose. It also looks terrific.
 
That is an awesome bush blade. Looking forward to seeing the scabbard.

Roger
 
here is the scabbard... a center seam construction with ring. I will put a belt loop on the ring, but it can also be used for hooking into a shoulder harness. It's wrapped on with epoxy soaked raffia.

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Just listed this one in the classifieds.
 
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