Naming Knives

george tichbourne

george tichbourne

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I don't know about other makers but I often have problems naming knives. Unlike naming children where there are books of names that you can chose from knives have to have special names that evoke some memory in the beholder.

This little boot knife was one of those knives that I just couldn't come up with a name for so I asked a friend to help. His wife was nearby when the scan came in and she looked at it and immediately christened it "The Silver Spur".
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I think it is an appropriate name for a boot knife.

Now that it has a name I am going to make a couple more for the Christmas trade out of random pattern Damasteel mirror polished and etched and the same mother of pearl inserts.



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george
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George,
I think it's eminently appropriate that one of your knives would share its name with a Rolls Royce.
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Congrats on another great design (oh, and that's a great picture too, Carol
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). BTW, is that an integral bolster?

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Semper Fi

-Bill
 
Thank you Bill, I never made the connection with the Rolls Royce. I guess that there aren't enough of them in the neighbourhood for the name to be recognizable.

It is an integral in 1/4" 440C, just a nice little knife with very clean lines. I was going to embellish it but when I got this far it just didn't seem to need anything else. The couple that I have just cut out in
random pattern Damasteel are going to be dramatic.

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george
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SUH-WEET! Wow is that pretty. Damascus bolsters over a mirro 440 blade with MOP would also be tremendous!

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George, that is gorgeous!! Do you just use an endmill or would a fly cutter work???

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I guess you could use a flycutter but because I run without coolant I use a 1 1/2" endmill with inserts that I can replace as necessary. The real trick is to take 1/4" stock and mill two 3/32 insert pockets with out warpage becoming a problem. The blade is ground and filed, not milled.

I am hoping the damasteel mills as easily as it grinds.



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george
www.tichbourneknives.com
sales@tichbourneknives.com


 
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