Steampunk Knives- show us what you have!

SpySmasher said:
No it's not. It's entirely fanciful and completely imaginary. It's an aesthetic that relies wholly on anachronism. It's nearly the opposite of period-functional. It's ornamental.
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Yup. Agreed. I read it as working outside the constraints of what a craftsman would have at the time. For example, building a steam based computer. The Difference Engine by William Gibson runs with that idea. Extends it to monitors and printers based on 19th century materials.

Building a knife using 19th century tools is not steampunk, it's just bladesmithing.
 
Geez Marcinek. It almost seems like you are "trolling" in this thread doesn't it my "friend"? something you readily reprimand others of as the self appointed forums police task force.you seem to now have a hobby of trying to show me up ?enjoy yourself if it makes you feel good

what I meant in my statement was just throwing some gears on a knife or acid printing them on a blade in different sizes or whatever is not steampunk. What the person who uploaded pics of their work in the beginning of this thread did was to actually put some effort into it to make the end product look like something that was engineered . Shorttime did a good job of describing what I was thinking. But I don't have the eloquent verbal talents of a higher being like yourself Marci so I apologize for that and appreciate your focus on me and calling me out as I always strive to achieve a better opinion of myself from my "friend" Marcinek
 
I always thought that steampunk was basically a fantasy setting (magic, orcs, etc) combined with victorian industrial aesthetics (steam machinery, technology, gunpowder). If you have ever played computer games, think of Arcanum. Then all the sudden, steampunk became ”stuff you attach gears to”.
 
ponykid said:
Geez Marcinek. It almost seems like you are "trolling" in this thread doesn't it my "friend"? something you readily reprimand others of as the self appointed forums police task force.you seem to now have a hobby of trying to show me up ?enjoy yourself if it makes you feel good

what I meant in my statement was just throwing some gears on a knife or acid printing them on a blade in different sizes or whatever is not steampunk. What the person who uploaded pics of their work in the beginning of this thread did was to actually put some effort into it to make the end product look like something that was engineered . Shorttime did a good job of describing what I was thinking. But I don't have the eloquent verbal talents of a higher being like yourself Marci so I apologize for that and appreciate your focus on me and calling me out as I always strive to achieve a better opinion of myself from my "friend" Marcinek
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Well I'm sorry you feel me asking you to expand on your post about building a knife ground-up "steampunk" is trolling by the "self appointed forums police task force." o_O

Isn't just making "the end product look like something that was engineered" as "decorative" as throwing some gears on or acid etching? Sure the former is more involved, but it is still merely decorative/aesthetic and not building "steampunk from the ground up."

My take is that all the knives here have some sort of steampunk "sensibility/look", but you cannot, as you claim, build one from the ground up, unless you are doing like @SpySmasher suggested earlier, and having some steam/hydraulic assisted open.
 
Cant forget about Shane Taylor
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Jose Cabral de Braga "EON" assisted opener with Tritium treated guts - Sword Maker for "The Highlander" movies

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I'll be honest, knives and steampunk stylings never struck me as being two things that would ever go together. At least not in the ways we're seeing.
 
Charlie_K said:
I'll be honest, knives and steampunk stylings never struck me as being two things that would ever go together. At least not in the ways we're seeing.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I assume you say this because you see a knife as a tool and a tool should be mostly functional as opposed to decorative. But of course there are knives that are works of art. To me that's the steampunk ethos. And of course there are countless custom makers doing engraving or making knives with other highly decorative touches.
 
MSchott said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I assume you say this because you see a knife as a tool and a tool should be mostly functional as opposed to decorative. But of course there are knives that are works of art. To me that's the steampunk ethos. And of course there are countless custom makers doing engraving or making knives with other highly decorative touches.
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I'll be honest, I don't really know what it is. I've seen a lot of steampunk stuff in the years, from clothing, goggles, bikes, ray guns, flamethrowers, conventional guns, I've even seen a suit of Ironman armor with a steampunk theme, but never knives. Maybe it's just because knives are so simple in their execution, there's nothing to actually steampunk up in them.

But now that the subject has come up, the idea that comes to my mind for a steampunk knife is very simple. Take a Buck 110, dirty up the brass bolsters, patina the blade, wear down some of the wood finish, basically make the whole thing look old and well-used, and it'd look the part with ease.
 
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