my Mrostov style chakma + the crazy wood i used for the handle

Josh Muller

Josh Muller

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made myself an mrostov style chakma/saw/chisel/steel.

i polished one edge and one flat of the blade for the steel, mainly because i marred up that flatt pretty bad while smoothing out the edge. i rounded it a good deal.

the saw really sucks on hard wood, but does well on live/wet/not hard materials. i dont know how well the chisel would work, but im mainly going to use this as a steel.

im not sure if you can see the wood well enough to even begin to get an idea of what type it might be. all it has on it is linseed oil. i dont know enough about wood to know how to bring out the grain. not to mention the several burn marks on the surface i should hand sand out (caused by dremel sander :rolleyes: )

overal, im quite happy with it :)

if ya'll feel that the wood picture isnt clear enough to get an idea of what type it might be, i can just give the name of the wood :cool: *you'll never guess :D :D *

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That came out pretty good. :cool:

As for the uses of the chisel/scraper, I've found that the chisel on mine is excellent for scraping out the insides of a fresh coconut.
 
What y'all are missing in this design is a bottle opener cut into base of the chakma to crack open a nice bottle of GUinness. :)
 
That's alright Seth!:)
Is that a piece of cherry you used for the handle? Kinda hard to tell from the enlarged pic with the sanding marks but it looks like the cherry I cut for a walking stick. But almost all fruitwood has a similar appearance. Of course it could be anything, but you said to guess.;) Very pretty whatever it is!:D
So what is it already?:p ;)
 
id love to do a good finish on it to bring out the grain lines and natural color, but i have no idea how to do it.

its pyracantha... not actually a tree - normally its iether a bush or a shrub, but it can be cut back banzai tree style to form a thick trunked tree like appearence. we cut ours out because it was at the corner of the house, covering part of the gutters, and was just difficult to maintain in general.

if anyone has any links or info on how to do a natural finish on a basic hardwood, id love to hear about it :)
 
The saw teeth are amazing. They seem to be exactly conforming one-to-another. Are you one of those guys who spends 15 minutes at his home laser-saw/beltsander/cuttingjig/polisherfinisher while drinking a beer and watching the home team, and it always turns out beautifully?

If so, I hate you.

If not, just lovely work.

Kis
 
SethMurdoc said:
its pyracantha... not actually a tree - normally its iether a bush or a shrub,

if anyone has any links or info on how to do a natural finish on a basic hardwood, id love to hear about it :)
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You're right Seth, I would never have guessed and I doubt anyone else would've either. I'm familar with the pyracantha, had a whole row of it along a fence by a house I rented in SoCal. Hated the stuff, seemed like everything out there had a sticker or thorn on it!:barf:
If you can do a search on Woodchucking or handle finishing you'll turn up a lot on finishing handles here.
But it's pretty easy anyway. Just sand with the grain with progressively finer and finer sandpaper starting out with maybe 180 or 220 grit and going up until it's smooth enough to suit you.
Some of the guys go up to 2,000 grit but 600 gives a damned nice finish!:D
 
actually, i did the saw teeth by hand without marking the distance, so they turned out a little uneven :rolleyes:

it was done with a realy old dremel (about 25 years old) and a cutout disc (dremel attachment). just make your spots along the spine a little, and go first at an angle, then smooth out the top of each. they could definitely be uniform then they are, but since im probably never going to use them, i dont mind :)

actually, everything on this was done on a dremel, except shaping of the handle, wich was done with a chisel and hammer....
 
etp777 said:
What y'all are missing in this design is a bottle opener cut into base of the chakma to crack open a nice bottle of GUinness. :)
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sierra nevada bigfoot for me :D (or a myriad of others for that matter :rolleyes: actually have a pint of guinness waiting for me in my fridge at the moment...)

see this thread for why i need not apply it to the chakma :eek: :D
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=302688


*updated grain photo*
 
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