daizee
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This is another 3" knife in my original series sharing the same handle shape as the hunters.
It was imagined as a fishing knife, but as I don't fish perhaps that's a bit of fantasy.
Specs:
1/8" A2 stock
black G10 handle with red liners
Blade a bit less than 3" tip to handle (handles ended up a little long at the front...)
This was an interesting one. I'm quite pleased with my grinding work on the bevels, which allowed a relatively fine edge - probably the finest so far. The G10 shapes very easily, but don't breathe that dust! Nasty. To make the handles I first epoxied the liner material to the stock handle slabs before cutting and proceeding as usual. I hope they hold - no indications they won't so far.
There are a few bits to point out - I slipped with the grinder while shaping the handle back and took a little swoop out of the spine just forward of the handle. Dammit. Don't think it shows up in the pix, and I polished it a bit but there's no way I was going to be able to sand it away out of hardened A2! Also there are some white bits btw the liner and the G10, very thin but obvious. I can't tell what it is, and can't seem to sand it away either.
The entire series were conceived as belt knives, but I don't know if I'll sheath this one or not - probably will, but for now it's hot-bunking in the kitchen knife block. Hopefully using it in the kitchen will be revealing. It became the basis for a paring knife drawing I worked out this evening.
Here's the in-progress series. Maybe I'll get to take a better picture outside tomorrow.
It was imagined as a fishing knife, but as I don't fish perhaps that's a bit of fantasy.
Specs:
1/8" A2 stock
black G10 handle with red liners
Blade a bit less than 3" tip to handle (handles ended up a little long at the front...)
This was an interesting one. I'm quite pleased with my grinding work on the bevels, which allowed a relatively fine edge - probably the finest so far. The G10 shapes very easily, but don't breathe that dust! Nasty. To make the handles I first epoxied the liner material to the stock handle slabs before cutting and proceeding as usual. I hope they hold - no indications they won't so far.
There are a few bits to point out - I slipped with the grinder while shaping the handle back and took a little swoop out of the spine just forward of the handle. Dammit. Don't think it shows up in the pix, and I polished it a bit but there's no way I was going to be able to sand it away out of hardened A2! Also there are some white bits btw the liner and the G10, very thin but obvious. I can't tell what it is, and can't seem to sand it away either.
The entire series were conceived as belt knives, but I don't know if I'll sheath this one or not - probably will, but for now it's hot-bunking in the kitchen knife block. Hopefully using it in the kitchen will be revealing. It became the basis for a paring knife drawing I worked out this evening.
Here's the in-progress series. Maybe I'll get to take a better picture outside tomorrow.