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Yvsa

Yvsa

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I was surfin around and found this website. There's all kinds of info. I found the 270 knife designs most impressive but his knives are drop dead Gorgeous!!!!:D
 
Impressive doesn't even cover it.

I wonder where this guy finds the time to make so many beaughtiful knives?
They're all art-pieces.
Lot's of good general info aswell.

Thanks for the Link.
 
very interesting....

clearly an excellent craftsman. his detailing is superb.

The 272 patterns, though.....not too sure about that....I could only find 10 or so I would find useful.
 
The patterns appeared to be variations on handle shape to fit every hand, and blade shape to fit every need. Looked thorough.

There really isn't much new with shape, is there, after all these thousands of years making tools?



munk
 
:confused: One of his knife descriptions says: "the sheath is hand-tooled, deeply cut leafwork, in 9-10 oz. leather shoulder, stitched together with polyester sinew, lacquered and sealed. "

What kind of animal is a "Polyester"? Must be a newly discovered species? :rolleyes:
 
Polyester sinew probably comes from the same place Big Macs derive.

Give it a few more years, and we'll have children who think leather comes from the Micarta factory.



munk
 
grr. Its a "made for IE6" page.

270 knives and not a khuk among them. What a waste of knife oriented webspace. :D

But yeah, I'm with Dan on this one. Only a few look like I would ever use them. A couple of the big belly ones might be good slicers. And a couple of the smaller ones might be good for cleaning deer. But all those finger rings and repetative designs...
 
Some very interesting designs - maybe somthing to work from I really like the Coyote :D :D
 
hclark said:
:confused: One of his knife descriptions says: "the sheath is hand-tooled, deeply cut leafwork, in 9-10 oz. leather shoulder, stitched together with polyester sinew, lacquered and sealed. "
What kind of animal is a "Polyester"? Must be a newly discovered species? :rolleyes:
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Isn't a Polyester related to the Nauga? You know, the critter that Nauga-Hide comes from. :)
Parry
 
A guy who describes himself as "renaissance artist" makes me wonder if he plays the lute, paints frescos, and designs earthwork fortifications as well. :p
 
newdovo2 said:
Isn't a Polyester related to the Nauga? You know, the critter that Nauga-Hide comes from. :)
Parry
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Ah, the noble Naugas, the top of the food chain on majestic Nauga Island...gem of the South Pacific.

We used to have a whole biological lifecycle figured out for Naugas...the female has a red hide and is larger than the male (and used for couches), while the smaller, blue, male is used for chairs...

It's amazing what one can come up with during periods of boredom.

Only you can save the Naugas! Boycott Naugahyde! :)
 
i saw his website a couple of weeks ago, and looking through all 270 designs, i couldnt decern any overal style among the bunch. while there is a lot of variation, all of the designs, ALL of them are what i would call beginer designs. they are the basic set up for the features, sans any sense of style.

the actual execution is highly admirable, but i could draw up 270 designs. its not as crazy as it seems.
 
munk said:
Polyester sinew probably comes from the same place Big Macs derive. Give it a few more years, and we'll have children who think leather comes from the Micarta factory.munk
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Actually, it is wood they will thing of as coming from the micarta factory. It is leather that comes from the Nauga or from the Corfam factory.

:p ;) :D

Good night, all!
 
munk said:
The patterns appeared to be variations on handle shape to fit every hand, and blade shape to fit every need. Looked thorough.

There really isn't much new with shape, is there, after all these thousands of years making tools?



munk
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I'm kind of disappointed.:( Munk is the only one who "got it" out of all the designs; who said so anyway.
Yeah, there's a lot there that many of us may not find particularly useful but someone did at some time or another and still do. Almost every knife ever made on the face of the planet is shown there in the 270 patterns and a helluva lot of them are still being made today!
The famous Bowie in several configurations are there. The standard hunting and utility knives that are still being made today are there. The Persian style knives that are so beautiful are represented and some of you say that there's maybe only 10 designs you see that are useful to you or that they are beginner designs.:rolleyes:
They may not be desirable or useful to you but this man is smart by making them available to whomever wants them that has the money in his pocket.
I found the site by searching for the Buffalo Skinner design which is a variation of a trailing point skinner similar to the one Dan made for DIJ. It is there also. I started to post the site in that thread but thought that it deserved its own since it Does represent about every knife ever made.
Personally I would give a very valuable, to me, small left particle of my body to have one of each of the 272 patterns represented there!!!!:rolleyes: :p

I know you guys are joking about the polester sinew but here is the real scoop on it.....
I have a few spools of nylon sinew and find it very useful. The reason it's called sinew is because it isn't braided or twisted string.
It is several threads placed next to one another and then waxed to keep them from getting tangled.
Like real sinew it can be divided off into the amount of thread one may need at the time.
Or several long strands can be cut off and twisted together to make a killer bow string. It's pretty useful stuff as well. Braided or twisted twine or string is limited in its usefulness. Like one design of a knife.:rolleyes: :p ;)
 
I know you guys are joking about the polester sinew but here is the real scoop on it.....
I have a few spools of nylon sinew and find it very useful. The reason it's called sinew is because it isn't braided or twisted string.
It is several threads placed next to one another and then waxed to keep them from getting tangled.
Like real sinew it can be divided off into the amount of thread one may need at the time.
Or several long strands can be cut off and twisted together to make a killer bow string>>>>>>> Yvsa

Thanks for this, Yvsa. I didn't know and this is fascinating. And we learn and borrow from nature, don't we? Really great. When we take our modern materials and technology to do this the results are often spectacular.

I did not have the time to study every blade on that site, and there was a whole lot there.

I saw the man understood ergonomics (?) of hands and blades. Some of those blade shapes I'd like to try using on what he had in mind.


munk
 
I wear a talisman, suspended with some precious (to me) bead work on a nylon sinew strand. It is durable, won't rot, and can handle body or shower moisture.

I would have to stay and work with anyone who can take and make deer sinew strands. I've tried and failed.

One would have to suitably protect natural sinew to maintain its integrity holding a sewn sheath together.
 
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