Steampunk Knives- show us what you have!

Not a knife, but my wife just had me steampunk up this irrigation box her boss is using to cover something in her garden ;)


~Chip
 
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I'm a bit surprized, but maybe not really, since WE knife has their own steampunk'ish blade coming soon: I must admit I like the minimalism of this, it's fairly simple and yet also steampunky
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now see that's Steampunk. note its not covered with glued on gears . Is it somewhat ornamental? yes it is. but when someone looks at it they will think that there is function to what they are seeing whether its a piston or a gear or whatever. Its supposed to
spark the imagination. a bunch of gears glued to a knife handle doesn't spark the imagination .
 
dirc said:
I'm a bit surprized, but maybe not really, since WE knife has their own steampunk'ish blade coming soon: I must admit I like the minimalism of this, it's fairly simple and yet also steampunky
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ponykid said:
now see that's Steampunk. note its not covered with glued on gears . Is it somewhat ornamental? yes it is. but when someone looks at it they will think that there is function to what they are seeing whether its a piston or a gear or whatever. Its supposed to
spark the imagination. a bunch of gears glued to a knife handle doesn't spark the imagination .
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It's the WE Knives Double Helix.
The springs on the sides are part of the lock mechanism and are fully functional.
BladeHQ has a video showing the function.
I definitely signed up to get an email alert on this one.
 
wow!! they have some outside the box engineers over there at WE!!

I am scared to go look at the price :)
 
ponykid said:
wow!! they have some outside the box engineers over there at WE!!

I am scared to go look at the price :)
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No price yet.
The pictured knife is a prototype from the recent Blade Show.
No production date that I can find but the picture on BladeHQ leads me to believe that it will be produced eventually.
 
dirc said:
I'm a bit surprized, but maybe not really, since WE knife has their own steampunk'ish blade coming soon: I must admit I like the minimalism of this, it's fairly simple and yet also steampunky
WE-Knife-Co-Double-Helix-Ti-er.jpg
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It appears to be like an axis lock knife but with a visible outside spring. Very cool and attractive!
 
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This guy does a lot of stuff that I think falls into the category nicely; piston-operated sheaths, bolt-action writing pens, etc.
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His name is Hidetoshi Nakayama. Look him up. Really innovative pen designs. My fave is the locomotive/train wheel action pen. You can't get more steamy than having a design based on a train!

Serge Panchenko and Hidetoshi Nakayama need to do a collaboration.

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Charlie_K said:
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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I agree.
Allow me to geek out for a moment. Some explanation of "Steampunk" origins who may not be familiar with it.

Steampunk evolved in science fiction from the genre called Cyberpunk (think Blade Runner). The writers then created an older sciience fiction of a past future that never was. Like Flash Gordon or other 1950's flying saucer science fiction for example. It was imagined as a past with a more advanced technology during the Age of the Industrial Revolution. One writer described Steampunk as if you were to imagine, what if there were no Dark ages (hundreds of years) in our history and we had advanced in technology during that time and into an new Industrial Revolution Age.

So in looking at the genre in BladeForums, the blade could be very simple instead of complex, depending on the individual weilding it as well. I could envision a rapier, cutlass, bayonette or bowie as being steampunk in the most basic of all the Steampunk stereotypes. Typical genres include the gentleman, pirate, military and the cowboy. Any folding knife would be considered from the modern world for starters and The Buck 110 fits perfect into the theme! And it has two major Steampunk ingredients, brass and wood!
 
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That's amazing. I am particularly fond of the occulus that you have on the side that opens and closes when you turn the gear. That's simply an amazing piece of work. Congratulations on finally completing it!
 
I meant to ask, were you inspired at all by the van hoy knife (I think it's called a snap lock)
 
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