new knife building in progress

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Hi, buddies. Haven't seen you for a long time, sorry about that.
I'm building new knives, this time two blades at once.
The steel is cpm-m4, back from hardening process yesterday.

I'll add new shots to the photo bucket listed above with progress.

wish you love them.

thanks for reading and watching.

p.s. the forum is splitted into two some time ago, looks like one for equipments and other for the skills, practice and execution for me. so that I posted this thread to here. if there's something wrong, please forgive me.

 

thanks guys for your kind words.
Rockywolf, I dont't think they are that great as you say but if you are really interested in my blades, I'll send you the one now I'm using after I've finished these.
I mean this one.

 

http://fjt.tumblr.com/post/80759376579/todays-progress-glued-note-the-four-hidden
Thanks, kvaughn.
Here's today's progress. handle scales been glued together.
Now they're heated to make the epoxy reaction faster and to be securely glued.

 

Thanks, baldtaco-II, you know everything quite well.
The motivation behind this work is, to be honest, an order from a friend of mine, whose boss retires from a job and he (my friend) wanted to congratulate it with some nice gift. I don't know the boss in person but I've heard he's a practioner of Iai-do and a Japanese sword collector.

Bolster material change comes from exactly what you said, partly from the easiness of work, partly because it looks better with maroon colour.

But above all, the largest change is the steel, I think. I was always using M2 HSS from Japanese manufacture for my blades but this time I moved to CPM-M4, which looks quite nice so far. it doesn't suffer rust as easily as M2. Also, this is the first time I use American steel. Really nice and no problem so far. Although I've cut nothing, but the steel can be felt while I'm working with it.

 

Rockywolf, pm (or email? not sure, sorry.) sent .

 

Today I've shaped the handles. It's a hard long job. Knife making is a job way too hard for me. handle shaping not finished yet.
As you can see, the handle is shaped with multiple "facets".
When I come to this idea, I thought "wow this looks great! looks like a sculpture but at the same time also useful!!".
Then I realized how much complicated this shape is.

 

Thanks CapitalizedLiving.
I really appreciate your words but as an anonymous novice maker I can not price my work to meet the cost.
I'll tell you if things have changed. Thanks again.

 

Thanks, Shotgun. glad to hear you like my works.

Today's progress.


roughly finished both blades now.
The wooden handle one goes to my client.
Tomorrow I will make their sheaths.

 

http://fjt.tumblr.com/post/81286661260/the-thong-hole-at-the-end-of-the-handle-has-got

I have a bad news. The thong hole at the end of the handle has broken when I dropped the blade onto a rock. Obviously a build defect. I've shaped it too thin and the hardness was too high. I've drilled holes at the end of the handle and hammered in a 2mm stainless pin with glue.

Today I've built a sheath, in Nordic style.

 

[video=youtube;IynW4Y-jxeM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IynW4Y-jxeM[/video]
its done now. the one for my personal use.