What is this called, and how do yall do it?

[Gendry]

Basically I've seen some knives on here that have a very cool looking blade that kind of "warps" back and forth.

That's not it, but it's close, what I am talking about is having the blade itself weave in and out with voids, having it look like the blade has waves in it. Like, you can see the tang at the top of the scales, and it isint flush with the wood all the time, there are indentations along the way. I am probably describing this terribly, hopefully somebody knows what I am going on about, I couldn't find a picture of one of these knives atm.

I assume you just measure out equal intervals, then grind parts away with something. Could somebody walk me though how you do this please? That is if you have any idea what I am talking about lol.

 

[zhyla]

You mean this sort of thing? It's usually called a "vine" pattern I think.

 

[John Katt]

use the words "file work knife knives" on youtube lots of video's

 

[Gendry]

You mean this sort of thing? It's usually called a "vine" pattern I think.

That's exactly what I mean, thanks for the example.

use the words "file work knife knives" on youtube lots of video's

I surely will, any extra pointers from the pro's here would be appreciated as well.

 

[Jason Fry]

At least one knucklehead has done a vine filework tutorial.
http://www.frycustomknives.com/tutorials/vine-filework

For fileworked liners like you showed in the original pic, the trick I've used (that I learned from Craig Brewer), is to superglue the liners together and do both of them at the same time, makes it possible to keep everything lined up.

 

[Busto]

"Jimping" is the actual terminology for decorative file work which is done mostly by hand and was originally a signature of the Knife Maker who developed a pattern for his High End Customers.

 

[Gendry]

"Jimping" is the actual terminology for decorative file work which is done mostly by hand and was originally a signature of the Knife Maker who developed a pattern for his High End Customers.

Ah I knew I was close, I was googling "crimping" Just a letter off lol. Thanks guys, this is a rather ambitious idea right now as far as my skill goes, but I'd like to try it eventually.

 

[Busto]

Ah I knew I was close, I was googling "crimping" Just a letter off lol. Thanks guys, this is a rather ambitious idea right now as far as my skill goes, but I'd like to try it eventually.

Just need some Layout Fluid (Dykem) and some small files Round and Triangle seem to be the most popular and its best done when the steel is in the annealed state before Heat Treat!!!!!!!

 

[FTO_dude]

"Jimping" is the actual terminology for decorative file work which is done mostly by hand and was originally a signature of the Knife Maker who developed a pattern for his High End Customers.

You think so?
Jimping is done exclusively for grip, everything else is just filework

 

[Busto]

You think so?
Jimping is done exclusively for grip, everything else is just filework

This may have been originally true...but in todays custom world it has evolved....YMMV



jimping

The old word, jimp that came from North England and Scotland, means neat, handsome, and slender in form. The knife industry designated regular, machined cuts or cross-hatched patterns on the back of the spine of the knife to improve traction of the fingertips jimping. They still call those regular spaced machine-made cuts jimping, but the in the custom and handmade knife world it has evolved into artistic filework. Jimping may be machine-cut by automated slitters, mills, or blades, but filework must be hand-cut. In my world, calling filework jimping is an insult.

 

[Varga Knives]

Whatda what?