Oh no! Not ANOTHER knife...

Lorien, you've come a LONG ways in just a few knives, especially considering your limited tools and equipment. You did real good and should be very proud of this baby.
 
thank you Nick, and thank you Kevin:)
 
Superb work mate, Very nice indeed.:thumbup::cool:

May I make a suggestion?......before you start on a sheath for it, buy yourself a copy of Paul Long's DVD. Trust me, you won't regret it.;)

Ian
 
Really looks good Lorien. You left out one thing that you have left to do though besides sharpening it and the final polish...You need to put your mark on it.
 
This knife took long enough! ;) I hope you got all the feed back you needed from collectors :P
 
I appreciate all your kind words, thank you so much:)

Harry, this knife IS my mark:D But yeah, I know what you mean. I'm totally open to suggestions here, I have no idea really where to start with that marking business. Should I approach it like 'branding' or something? I really don't see myself selling a knife for at least another couple of years, if at all.

Ian- good suggestion. I'll look into that. Besides, I like Paul.

Peter- it's only been 6 months! I'm doing pretty good so far as I can tell. Not sure what you mean by feedback, but I'm soaking up the encouragement:thumbup: Makes me want to make it all over again, (maybe a bit different next time though...) but I have another couple of projects started that I need to finish first. Perhaps that will give me some time for testing of this one in order to refine the design.

An assortment of Lansky diamond hones showed up today, and I've been toiling away grinding an edge on this knife. HOLY CRAP! This final step might actually be the hardest part...
 
Never know when you are going to sell one Lorien. The ones you want to keep are sometimes the hardest ones to hang on to. People will just make you an offer you can't refuse so why fight it? There is always a better one in the back of your mind.

I have been collecting Maker's marks for the last couple of years and the ones I like best are the ones that tell who made the knife and where I can find them. Marks that are symbols don't help much if you want to know who made the knife and how to get one. The symbols are special though. Who wouldn't like to have a knife that has the mark of a little dagger that has a kris type blade on it or even a sunfish? You have the eye of an artist; You should be able to come up with something distinctive that gets across what you want people to know.

There are people out there that will make you a sheet of stencils and a marker is not hard to make, with plans available on the internet. Might search the makers section of the forum since you are a maker now.

Start a thread on here if you need help....you can get more advice in two days for free than you could ever get if you had to pay for it.:D You just have to filter out the spam. :cool:
 
food for thought, Harry. Thanks for bringing this up, it's a great topic for consideration.

But first things first...

So far I have spent several hours over the past two days putting an edge on this knife with these;


I started off with the shallowest angle available, which is 17 degrees. Once that bevel started looking good, I steepened the angle to 20 degrees and the final bevel, which I'm working on now, is at 25 degrees. All according to the Lansky gauge, and I have no idea how accurate it is, but that doesn't really matter to me so long as the bevel is consistent. With those 3 different angles, I'm shooting for a nice, convex edge bevel that I hope will cut well and hold up.



Hopefully I will finally finish the edge today, and go over the whole blade again with 1500 grit paper over a soft backing to blend it all together.
 
the sharpening went pretty well, and it's about 95% done. But really, is the sharpening EVER truly done?

Anyway, did a quick chop into a 2x4 to see how she handles. The grip is very comfortable for me and really seems to deaden the shock traveling up into the handle. Or maybe I'm just smoking crack. In either case, I think that this knife will serve me well.

Thank you all so much for viewing and/or contributing to this thread. I really do appreciate you taking the time to do so:):):).

 
The knife seems to have come out great, sharp too.

Thank you for putting all the work in, which was a lot. Was a lot of fun watching the process of the knife being made and being apart of it.
 
I got er out for a spin today for a few hours, and I'm happy.
It occurred to me to end this thread with some photos, so here they are. I hope you like em!

(oh yeah, sorry about the blood. Don't worry, it's all mine:o)

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and here's a few shots of the handle after some heavy chopping. I think it will hold up well for my uses.
I just love the way the walnut turned out:)

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Hope you didn't lose too much blood....

Do you happen to know what kind of tree the knife is resting on in the sixth picture? The knife really does look great. The wood handle is very nice, the seam is barely noticeable.
 
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