Redmeadow pics that need a home

[Redmeadow Knives]

That package turned out beautifully John. I love what you did with the handle shaping. Just such a classy looking and practical working man’s (or woman’s) knife.

I am definitely interested when this one becomes available.

Phil

Thanks Phil, I'm really surprised how much traction the faceted shape gives, we'll see more of this style.

Here's a better shot of a Scout, I'm trying to make a video of this before I send it out. You can make a drinking game out of it for every time I say "uh"

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

A quick Scout rundown. This should give you a better idea of them.

Caution- Rambling Ahead

 

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[Redmeadow Knives]

The 40 feet of 1"x.125" stock I've been waiting on for a few weeks came in today. It'll get forged into Scouts and projects like the small coffin handle design I did recently.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Picked up a 3' slab of Wenge yesterday in the big city. Went to a store that carries a lot of exotic woods and couldn't pass this up. Going to try some scorched textures on some handles, Roy brought it up the other day when looking at some walnut scales. This piece looked like a good candidate for some experimenting, dense as hell with some open grain throughout. Personally Wenge looks hideous to me when polished out so we'll see what we can come up with.

 

[T.Knotts]

Picked up a 3' slab of Wenge yesterday in the big city. Went to a store that carries a lot of exotic woods and couldn't pass this up. Going to try some scorched textures on some handles, Roy brought it up the other day when looking at some walnut scales. This piece looked like a good candidate for some experimenting, dense as hell with some open grain throughout. Personally Wenge looks hideous to me when polished out so we'll see what we can come up with.
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That looks like a nice chunk of wood.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

That looks like a nice chunk of wood.

It's a nice piece and really dense, the poor saw at the wood shop was having a rough day cutting through it. I was waiting to smell smoke at any moment lol.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Fooling around texturing that Wenge I picked up. I think there's some potential there for some interesting handles, what say you?

 

[jlauffer]

Fooling around texturing that Wenge I picked up. I think there's some potential there for some interesting handles, what say you?

Looks pretty wild...like it!

 

[SpyderPhreak]

Fooling around texturing that Wenge I picked up. I think there's some potential there for some interesting handles, what say you?

No idea what the title of that video means, but the wood sure looks quite interesting!

 

[jlauffer]

No idea what the title of that video means, but the wood sure looks quite interesting!

Yeah, like why is Shou Sugi banned?

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

No idea what the title of that video means, but the wood sure looks quite interesting!

I dropped my phone when I was typing

Yeah, like why is Shou Sugi banned?

They were too hot to handle...

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Revisiting the small coffin handle. I think this calls for a forged ricasso and fried wenge.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Scorched wenge, peened pins, tapered tang, handle swells towards the but in thickness and height. The elements are there but the next one needs a few changes, (more blade belly, deeper clip, thinner tang taper, more forged ricasso texture). Thought I'd post this one up.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Ran across this painting from Giuseppe Arcimboldo called "Fire" from 1566 in an article Hatchet_Jack sent me about firesteels.

I found it kind of fascinating because he must have been looking at the actual "nose" firesteel at the time of the painting and that that shape existed. I guess it's pretty common when painting something but I never really thought about it, but "still life" comes to mind. Anyways, a lot of the hammer strokes I was using were giving me very similar results in the picture. As I planned how to do a certain portion, it would naturally follow the shape in the painting. So I don't think he just made up a nose shaped firesteel, I think he found one. That's a lot of yackity smacking blah blah blah but I found it interesting and thought some of you might as well.

I'm no reproductionist by any means but I thought I'd give it a shot. Anyways, it was fun trying to forge something out of a painting from 1566.

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Random shot of a Spear and Zulu

Bone and White linen micarta on the right, almost has a grain to it with slight specks that give it a natural look.

 

[adluginb]

I guess I’ll claim those two since nobody has….

 

[adluginb]

And after all that I missed the newsletter…

 

[Redmeadow Knives]

Sorry guys, both of the blue Spears went to folks off forum as far as I know. Wish I could make enough to feed everyone!

Gonna have some Drop points coming and I'm trying to get a solid 4-5" designed amongst other things.

On a somewhat random note, it took a ton of trial and error to get the Cowbell just right. Hundreds of sketches, cardboard, hardboard, steel, repition and time. Just a simple little knife but there was so much taken into consideration. I haven't found a detail that I could improve without compromising an existing detail. I've tried upscaling it into a longer blade but it's like a Cowbell just wants to be a Cowbell, which is a good thing. With a 4-5" design I've gotta start from scratch. I have a design that I'm about try that is promising, we'll see how it goes. The requirements I'm working off are simple, 4-5" blade, less than 10" OAL, tapered tang, good balance, and a comfortable handle. Maybe we need a thread for everyone to throw out their opinions based on those parameters. Feel free to start one or any kind of thread in the sub!

 

[Horsewright]

Sorry guys, both of the blue Spears went to folks off forum as far as I know. Wish I could make enough to feed everyone!

Gonna have some Drop points coming and I'm trying to get a solid 4-5" designed amongst other things.

On a somewhat random note, it took a ton of trial and error to get the Cowbell just right. Hundreds of sketches, cardboard, hardboard, steel, repition and time. Just a simple little knife but there was so much taken into consideration. I haven't found a detail that I could improve without compromising an existing detail. I've tried upscaling it into a longer blade but it's like a Cowbell just wants to be a Cowbell, which is a good thing. With a 4-5" design I've gotta start from scratch. I have a design that I'm about try that is promising, we'll see how it goes. The requirements I'm working off are simple, 4-5" blade, less than 10" OAL, tapered tang, good balance, and a comfortable handle. Maybe we need a thread for everyone to throw out their opinions based on those parameters. Feel free to start one or any kind of thread in the sub!

Man you are so right. A good design does not just necessarily scale up or down. I've gotta couple that will, but man even then it ain't easy, lots of tweaking.