Retro serpentine 3-blade

Tiaan Burger

Tiaan Burger

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Stainless blades, bronze bolsters and pinning, 5160 springs. Retro acrylic covers.
Closed length: 98mm (3.86")
Blade thickness: 2mm (0.076") on tang. (The thinnest blades I ever fitted on a folder)
The handle thickness is 12mm at the spring pin (about 15/32" or 0.47").

This is the last stainless multiblade I made, found the parts on Monday while cleaning up. The handle is like a car crash, one can't stop looking even though it is beyond ugly!

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Questions and comments welcome!
 
So you found the parts and assembled the knife from preexisting parts?
Cool! If that handle is old stuff there's a good chance it's actually celluloid, so don't light it on fire :D Nice job!
 
thatotherguy said:
So you found the parts and assembled the knife from preexisting parts?
Cool! If that handle is old stuff there's a good chance it's actually celluloid, so don't light it on fire :D Nice job!
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Sorry, I got that all wrong! No, I usually cut parts for a number of knives, then finish them one at a time. The parts for this one got placed in an empty tin and the tin migrated to the back of a shelf.
The slab of "plastic" came from a cupboard full of tools and materials I bought from a retired knifemaker a while ago, so it might be celluloid, but it smelled like perpex when I worked it.
 
Love the whole knife but your fingernail ( I just coined the term) bolsters are impressive!
 
Tiaan Burger said:
Sorry, I got that all wrong! No, I usually cut parts for a number of knives, then finish them one at a time. The parts for this one got placed in an empty tin and the tin migrated to the back of a shelf.
The slab of "plastic" came from a cupboard full of tools and materials I bought from a retired knifemaker a while ago, so it might be celluloid, but it smelled like perpex when I worked it.
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Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up, and you do beautiful work!
Gevonovich- Can I use that term? I like it :)
 
thatotherguy said:
Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up, and you do beautiful work!
Gevonovich- Can I use that term? I like it :)
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Thank you!

Gevonovich - From the top and bottom it looks like a dovetail, as used in cabinet making, so I call it a dovetail, but I like "fingernail bolsters" even better.
 
I guess I have a thing for car crashes or ugly because I really like those handles. I think the handles and the bolsters go together perfectly!
 
hunter s thompson said:
I guess I have a thing for car crashes or ugly because I really like those handles. I think the handles and the bolsters go together perfectly!
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Thank you Mike, and Hunter.
LOL, I just looked at them when I finished and went "bleh!" I am used to ivory, pretty burl woods and the like, so this was a bit of a shocker. After living with it for a while I am starting to like it as well, I'm actually thinking of the next one I am going to make with this material!
 
Great knife. I looked again at the pictures and fingernail bolster is a good term. A barlow in that material would look great.
 
I think the entire knife looks great but what most impressed me, or maybe just appealed to me, is the "fingernail bolsters". Very awesome.
 
Very well done! The bolsters were the first thing that caught my eye. I also love the pointy pen blade instead of a spey. Thanks for sharing the pics with us.
 
Tiaan, I would love to get my hands on some of that acrylic. Do you, or anyone else for that matter, know of a new source for something similar?
 
That is a gorgeous knife. You did a brilliant job. I wouldn't change a thing. Except possibly its location. ;)
 
WoW that is beautiful!!
I know what you mean by can't stop looking at it. I can't stop looking and seeing all the different color and patterns in the handle.

Great job!!

KG
 
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