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David Stifle

David Stifle

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This is a knapped 1084 steel blade, 6" long and 1.75" wide. The handle is Elk antler dyed dark brown with brass ornaments. It is extremely sharp, and easily capable of dressing deer and other large game. My intent was to give it a early 1830's plains Indian look. It was a lot of fun to make, although certainly a challenge.
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David my friend, that is a really cool looking blade. I love the way the chipped/knapped portions look. I didn't see a WIP on this, I've been tied up with pt so I miss a lot. So many questions, how did you get the knapped look, is it all hammered, are they ground out our both?

Great choice on the dressing and hardware, how's feel in hand? One last question, did a particular knife inspire you, is it modeled after a specific historical blade or just your own interpretation of a period knives? Wherever it came from I love the knife. :thumbup:

Sorry I've missed you and your work my friend, here and there. I'll try to keep up ;)
 
T. Erdelyi said:
David my friend, that is a really cool looking blade. I love the way the chipped/knapped portions look. I didn't see a WIP on this, I've been tied up with pt so I miss a lot. So many questions, how did you get the knapped look, is it all hammered, are they ground out our both?

Great choice on the dressing and hardware, how's feel in hand? One last question, did a particular knife inspire you, is it modeled after a specific historical blade or just your own interpretation of a period knives? Wherever it came from I love the knife. :thumbup:

Sorry I've missed you and your work my friend, here and there. I'll try to keep up ;)
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Hi Ted, good to hear from you. The knapped look comes from some delicate hammering techniques during forging, and finishing up grinding and polishing, the edge is painstakingly done with small files. It's of no particular period, just my interpretation of what I imagine such a period knife might look like. I did want to put some feathers and beads on it, and still could if the darned birds would spare a few feathers, lol.

I recently joined a knapping group, and was amazed at the exquisite work they do, that is the inspiration for this blade. I'm very glad you like it:)
 
Very cool looking knife David, a lot of detail in the blade, maybe some feathers on the sheath would look pretty good to I think.
 
I can't imagine how much work it took to clean, prep and polish that blade so it would not look clean, prepped and polished. LOL It is a very nice and unusual look. I have seen and held flint, knapped knives and you have done a surprisingly nice job of making it look very similar to the raeal thing.
 
golfer1 said:
I can't imagine how much work it took to clean, prep and polish that blade so it would not look clean, prepped and polished. LOL It is a very nice and unusual look. I have seen and held flint, knapped knives and you have done a surprisingly nice job of making it look very similar to the raeal thing.
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Thanks, Golfer1.
 
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