uddha sword breakdown (adding a gaurd)

Many years ago Ken Ward made a knife for me that had hollow pins, to the inside of those he added a copper sguare tube followed by a solid silver. with one inside the other then filled with epoxy and sanded/polished they looked very nice. You need a pretty good HOBBY house to find these but I have seen them.
Sorry I don't have the knife any longer to show you, just a thought.

Dick
 
Cabbit said:
I think that sums up this project nicely...:thumbdn:
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Everybody is entitled to an opinion, yours reflects your attitude. Hope you get a handle on what's eating you, life is sweet for those who don't turn bitter.

Sarge
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Everybody is entitled to an opinion, yours reflects your attitude. Hope you get a handle on what's eating you, life is sweet for those who don't turn bitter.

Sarge
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Yeah. f'real, dude. Seth contributes a here. He is an avid collector, and he's trying something new. It's his toy to do what he wants with it. It's guys like Seth that give me the grits to try stuff with my collection. He paid his coin, is trying something new, and is kind enough to keep us posted with pics.
Lookin good, Seth. I wanna see a finished product:):thumbup:

Jake
 
sweet project.

your tools sound like my setup. small apt, i typically sit cross legged on a wee little rug, and do my work. sometimes my feet are my vise. don't a lot of good projects this way. dremel tool is my fast friend, hand tools rock. i did add a small set of 18v tools a while ago - mostly the drill is handy. strange shaped vice grips and things complete it. you can do a LOT of work this way, and don't worry about that 1mm. i've seen hand work done with the crudest tools done with extreme accuracy. "eyeballing" does work.

look forward to the completed work.

bladite
 
SethMurdoc said:
cause i wasnt thinking when i ordered them :D thats the only real reason. i would rather have solid brass pins, but you work with what you have.
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LOL! Thanks for the honest response :)

I can relate to improvising (using whatever is handy), since I myself have been known to improvise on all sorts of personal projects.

It's amazing what a thinking mind can produce from available materials ;)

It's one of the reasons I find it so hard to not become a packrat, since I always figure that even scrap materials can later be used in some way. Our storage capacity is limited though, so I oftentimes find myself letting go of things (things I almost always regret letting go of later) ;)

Thanks again for sharing.
 
Cabbit said:
I think that sums up this project nicely...:thumbdn:
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i just need it to work, not to be pretty. thats part of why i questioned wether it was okay to be posting this in the first post.
 
SethMurdoc said:
i just need it to work, not to be pretty. thats part of why i questioned wether it was okay to be posting this in the first post.
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Seth, don't sweat it. I don't think anyone here besides Cabbit is down on you for this project. We're more amazed that you have the guts to take a scrimshawed handle apart. Whatever works for you, do it. I for one appreciate the pics. I think it's a cool project making something to fit you better. Kudoes to you, sir:thumbup:

Jake
 
Besides, you can put secret messages in the hollows, and pass the knife to your counter-parts in the Partisan movement without being discovered.

I think folks sell mosaic pins which you might decide to slip in the hollows at some later date. Kind of cool.

Or, even...put a small note with name, date and point of origin inside, seal it somehow, and leave it there for possible future owners, generations from now, to discover and marvel at.

Or, Diamonds !!! You could put diamonds in there !!!


Have fun, you are doing great, except for that part where Spectre is stalking you.


be well and safe.





watch the shadows.
 
What if the the guard had a "collar" or shim of some sort that consisted of one or two pieces that would nest inside/next to the large-holed guard that had to pass over the tang?
 
SethMurdoc said:
i just need it to work, not to be pretty. thats part of why i questioned wether it was okay to be posting this in the first post.
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Then why did you get the one with the carved handle?

You know there are folks who appreciate HI knives as works as arts as much as they are tools.

If I were the maker I would be insulted to know that the knife I spent hours working on was summarily torn apart upon receipt by the buyer.
 
Cabbit said:
You know there are folks who appreciate HI knives as works as arts as much as they are tools.

If I were the maker I would be insulted to know that the knife I spent hours working on was summarily torn apart upon receipt by the buyer.
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I agree with you. It may also be true with just about any handcrafted item. But,........... once the person sells his craft off, he's done just that, sold it off.
Once a buyer pays for an item, no matter what that item is and no matter what the seller thinks should be done with that item, what happens next is strictly the business of the new owner.

I mean, realistically speaking :)
 
Cabbit said:
Then why did you get the one with the carved handle?

You know there are folks who appreciate HI knives as works as arts as much as they are tools.

If I were the maker I would be insulted to know that the knife I spent hours working on was summarily torn apart upon receipt by the buyer.
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Cabbit, what ever his reasons the item is his. Most of us make changes to these tools to fit our likes or needs, some small some large, he is not destroying the "artwork" he is adding something to make the knife more functional.
No matter what he is sharing with us is the details on how to adjust the handle, who knows someone may have a handle fail and the "how to repair" is already in place.
It's his, he can, should and is doing what he wants with it. You don't approve, DON'T LOOK!

Dick
 
Aw Cabbit...c'mon.

A lot of folks here have a hard edge to them, but they leave it at the door when they come in the house. You are obviously insightful and welcome, but so much of what you post here appears to be confrontational.

Could you share your insight and opinions in a more moderate way?

I, for one, would appreciate it very much.


Thanks for your consideration.
 
Yes Cabbit,
I agree with Kismet. Welcome; but take it down a notch. I always remember the late Pig Pen of the Grateful Dead, responding after someone in the crowd told him he was using the wrong grip on the Capo, ( or something) and he says. "What do you think I'm trying to do? Heck, I can make my own mistakes,"




munk
 
I don't think of my khukris as possessions. I think I'm just taking care of them temporarily. When I do work on one, I want to be damned sure it will be better when I'm done. I think it's fine to work on villagers or 'standard' HI items. They are indeed tools, and meant to be used. I'm not sure this item is in that category.
Oh well, what's done is done.
 
We make decisions.

Skeeter Skelton's kid talked about his dad and a Colt single action with real ivory grips. The grips were hand carved with figures of animals or something. He listened to his father in the other room sanding, and knew he was removing the carving so the revolver would not hurt his hand under recoil and also provide a better grip.




munk
 
munk said:
We make decisions.
Skeeter Skelton's kid talked about his dad and a Colt single action with real ivory grips. The grips were hand carved with figures of animals or something. He listened to his father in the other room sanding, and knew he was removing the carving so the revolver would not hurt his hand under recoil and also provide a better grip.
munk
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That reminds me of my antler handle MCC that I snagged. It has an elaborate carving of a crane in the sky plucking a fish from the sea. It was beautiful...but it didn't fit my hand for beans. it felt like grabbing a square piece of angle iron. This thing was made for a giant, which I am not. So, the MCC and I had a sit down and a deal was struck. We both decided that the crane was critical, a must. I had already dubbed the blade thunderbird, after all;) However, how many us need to see where a bird naturally is and what a crane naturally eats. I carefully drimmeled the the material around the bird to make it a little more friendly to my hand. Man, it worked like a charm. Which would Bura be more upset about, handcrafting a brute of a user like the MCC and having a pig like myself grind away some of his work so that it would function to my liking OR having spent blood sweat and tears making such a fine worker beautiful only to be socked away and unused? I dunno, but the MCC feels GREAT and gets USED:)

Jake
 
Cabbit said:
Then why did you get the one with the carved handle?

You know there are folks who appreciate HI knives as works as arts as much as they are tools.

If I were the maker I would be insulted to know that the knife I spent hours working on was summarily torn apart upon receipt by the buyer.
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because it was available at the time when i wanted an uddha sword. anyone who has been in school knows what its like to have something they put a lot of effort into that turned out extremely well be torn down by a teacher or another pupil who didnt feel the same way.

if a moderator feels that this is the case, i'll gladly take this thread down.

the parts that im modifying wouldnt have taken hours of work (or rather, it wouldnt have taken as much time as the other portions of the knife). i havent changed the handle shalbs in any way, nor have i modified the blade itself. the only part im changing is the glue used to hold the handles on, the pins, and the bolster.

while i am considering using brass to fill in the engravings, for the time being im going to leave them alone. you are correct that i should have gotten a normal handled edition, by iether waiting for a deal of the day, ordering one custom/special order if none were available, or emailing yandu and asking if there were any regular wood handled ones in stock.

or, probably the better moral route would have been to custom order an uddha sword with a gaurd put on it by the kami's themselves. (had i known i would like the uddha sword in the first place)

hindsight is 20/20, and there is not much i can do about it now.

what are franzites?
 
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