Sloyd knife - just finished

fast14riot

fast14riot

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Just finished up this little sloyd knife, or handy knife/wood knife. I will use it mostly as a whittler and shop knife. I started this one a while back, and I am making an effort to finish up all my old projects sitting around my shop.

1084 blade, 1 3/8" edge, 1/8" at the spine. HT and tempered by me, 60min@400*F x2.
Handle is myrtle wood and bronze guard. Brass pin, hand hammered an domed. Guard face if rough cast finish for some texture. The guard is soldered at the plunge, which I ran back onto the tang just a bit to make sharpening a little easier by having the gap.

The wood came from my late grandfathers woodshop, so I finished it in his quick and easy method he showedme years ago. A couple coats of BLO and waxed with a vigorous rub down of house hold wax paper. Quick, easy, easy to touch up and repair if needed.

The straight edge will be sharp, it is currently not sharpened.

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(This is before I finished the handle, but it shows the guard texture the best)

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Let me know what you think!

-Xander
 
I like it. Looks like a great little tool Xander.

Just a personal preference; I would have preferred a slightly narrower blade, with a more pointy tip, for carving.

But that obviously depends on the intended purpose of the knife.

Great work.

Brian
 
Thanx Brian. Yeah, a dedicated carver does need to be slimmer and pointier, but in the tradition of a sloyd knife, this will be used for more than wood carving/whittling, but will be perfectly capable of it. I forget who it was, but I remember a post a while back on here where someone outlined various traditional saami blade shapes, one very similar to this was in the post, which I liked enough to make!


-X
 
Much appreciated Frank! This one will be throwing chips in no time! Its gonna be a user for me for sure. I do need to make a sheath for it, though I'm not terribly good at leather work. This knife will be handy as a marking knife for wood working, as well as small shop cutting tasks. It sits in hand real nice.

Though I do think I will make a purpose built whittler soon, I have some bandsaw steel just right for this.


-Xander
 
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