Making a Sorocabana - man this is a lot of work!

Ivan Campos

Ivan Campos

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I have spent yesterday's afternoon at Sr. Bíde's shop learning how to forge the enterço - the handle part of a sorocabana - and today have worked of fitting my blade on an enterço he made, besides forging another blade.
I have to tell you that from seeing the old artisan making it to slot the handle and make it fit the blade by myself there is a looong distance - but it was fun and this first piece should be ready in some 2 or 3 more days, when I'll show it at the Forums.
It is tiring and it will take a long while for me to learn half of what I need but forging is definitelly a lot of fun and something I'll devote more time to.
 
OK Ivan, I give up. What's a sorocabana? I did a search on Google with no luck.
 
Hey Ivan,

Just thought I should let you know. I took my Sorocabana out in the woods a while back for a camping trip. Split small logs, felled a bunch of saplings, cut up dinner, killed a wild armadillo (or something it was dark and it flew off the side of a cliff so I don't really know what it was! I haven't even tried to polish out the blood stains.) put a few good dings on it by hitting rocks when making some big fuzz sticks. Please tell Sr. Bide that he makes a very good working knife with plenty of weight forward for hacking and very nicely done convex edge. Add that I had a mastersmith up here fix up the edge and he should consider it a compliment that the MS said he could not make a knife that nice for the money it cost to get one from you!

Thanks again,

-Sam.
 
Thanks Duck. I like the looks of the big knife. By what people say it is a heck-of a good buy too. It looks like something from an Indiana Jones movie.
 
Hello

Thanks for coming up with that link, Duck.
Now you gays now what a Sorocabana is. I'll posta a picture of the one I am making as soon as it gets ready. It is smaller than that and has less belly. I'll posta pic as soon as it gets ready.
I am also working on some miniature Sorocabanas - not to scale, but fully functional little knives forged from 3/8" steel rod, like some I have in my collection, and in a large model, still without handle, plus a laregr camp knife, with no enterço and a fish-tail handle, whose profile looks much like the handle on Bill Moran's Colorado Camp knife (see pg 114 of master of the Forge). I'll show them as soon as I have my scanner working again.
Forging is fun and I feel I have a certain responsability in keeping the style alive.
here is a pic of an old original for you to appreciate:
 

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