Hello,
in the near future, I will have to make two identical, luxury frame handle knives, loads of engravings, mammoth ivory, wootz steel.. As I never made a frame handle before, I now made a dummy to take measurements and to calculate the effort to make one. (Bad excuse for "I allways wanted a take down knife for myself"
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Here it is, it took me loooong hours ff filing and filing as no belt grinder was in used except for the blade.
26,5cm blade of 1.2510 in 6mm stock, hand rubbed to 2500 and etched, all mountings (guard, ferrule, frame, liners, pommel) from 416 (hardened).
Despite of it's 550gr it feels light and fast due to the balance point just 1cm in front of the guard.
Regards
Nicolas
in the near future, I will have to make two identical, luxury frame handle knives, loads of engravings, mammoth ivory, wootz steel.. As I never made a frame handle before, I now made a dummy to take measurements and to calculate the effort to make one. (Bad excuse for "I allways wanted a take down knife for myself"
)Here it is, it took me loooong hours ff filing and filing as no belt grinder was in used except for the blade.
26,5cm blade of 1.2510 in 6mm stock, hand rubbed to 2500 and etched, all mountings (guard, ferrule, frame, liners, pommel) from 416 (hardened).
Despite of it's 550gr it feels light and fast due to the balance point just 1cm in front of the guard.
Regards
Nicolas
