Vague thoughts about a little scandi

The hole in the end was not completely centered due to the curvature of the steal plats so i put a plug in it instead of showing the rat tail tang. I put a thin leather spacer between the peaces of wood an slapped it all together.

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Preview with a simple point and shot camera. Its apple and cherry with a leather spacer and a 0,75% C Uddeholm steel blade. :)

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What do you think? :)
 
I have been watching this and I like what you came up with. I am anxious to see the others finished.
They should make great little carvers.
 
Thanks guys! Its a prototype so I have not put any effort in to making the looks top notch but I have learned a lot from it. :)

Prototype #2 coming up. Ebenholts, 3 layers of cotton fabric and walnut.

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First impressions.

Works well ergonomically, steel is preforming great. The coarse goes like a dance but the blades are slightly to large for the final detail. The should be optimal for bush-craft tasks as a complement to an ax ore chopper mentioned earlier in the tread. I'm well happy.

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Good carving skills! Kind of reminds me of Peter's neighbor in Office Space, the construction guy with the horseshoe mustache. Waiting for an F'n A, man.

For a smaller knife, could you make a much shorter tang too? May be easier to slide into the handle. Plus you get more material to make more knives.
 
The walnut handle knife has been my go to knife for the last one and a half year and i could not be more happy with it. Easy to sharpen and a joy to use. This concept is a keeper.

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I went on a trip to Copenhagen national museum today. Great exhibitions running right now. I got a good close up look on the offerings in Vimose (200 ad). And confirm a bunch of suspicions. One is that smaller pointy blades often unlabelled is misclassified as spear, lance or arrow points. As seen in the picture below with is supposed to be lance points when there is clearly a knife blade in front of the bundle.

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Another thing is that a majority of the blades were sheep-foots ant that these ar often displayed upside down as regular blades. This is especially annoying in pictures an book. In the picture its only the fourth blade from the bottom witch has a regular blade shape. The rest is sheep-foots placed up side down.

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The last point is that there is nothing new under the sun. Check out the knifes, hones, file, ax-heads, thong etc.

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