"WIP" addiction

Karl B. Andersen

Karl B. Andersen

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I know you guys are starting to get addicted to "Works In Progress", so I thight I might help add to your dependancy.
I'm doing a forge building tutorial for a few friends of mine and had the camera in the shop, so I thought I would show you the next knife from Andersen Forge.
Remember Andersen Forge?
It's a forged W2 8 inch Bowie with a rather nice hamon. One of those really dark Sambar Stag handles and a bunch of Stainless steel take-down hardware.
I got further along in the "progress" part before I took any pictures, and for that, I appologize.
The guard will get shaped and then rope file-worked for a little Western Flair!
Spacer and butt cap are shaped to the handle material.
Handle will be left about 97.625% intact shape-wise.
Stay tuned!

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You've got the hard part done; what are you waiting for, get busy and finish that puppy.

Thats a nice looking piece of stag. It will look great on a big bowie such as you've made here.
 
Alright - progress!

Here I have further refined the piece fitting and have turned the guard into an oval.

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A little better view of the butt cap and finial. I always leave the finial in this condition all the way up to about that last thing. I tighten the knife up each time with VISE GRIPS!! That way, I'll know it's gonna last - if it's gonna break, I want it to break in MY shop - not yours!

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Here I have rounded the guard over in preparation of rope file work lay-out.

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Here is some of that lay-out in progress:
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File work mostly done. About all that's left is to polish the interior of the file work and handrub the remainder of the guard.
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Another view:
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A finished butt cap and finial:

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Two views of the knife about 90 percent done. I still have to polish out the guard file work and then etch the blade to reveal the hamon:

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That is very eye catching. All the parts coming together nicely.

The file work fits the knife.

Fred
 
WOW. Thats beautiful. I love the pommel.
 
karl, very nice looking piece, prob. cuts beautifully.

i was wondering though, when you first showed the but cap you had filed it to match the contour of the stag, but then for the finished piece you changed it. just wondering why .....andrew
 
atakach said:
karl, very nice looking piece, prob. cuts beautifully.

i was wondering though, when you first showed the but cap you had filed it to match the contour of the stag, but then for the finished piece you changed it. just wondering why .....andrew
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Accident!
 
ahhh ,but it looks so beautiful!!


them kinda accidents make the knives worth more
(the good kind):thumbup:
 
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