Your COVID19 responses (projects you’re doing), let’s see ‘em, and mine (86 splitback whittler mod)

Hickory n steel said:
Well I didn't really like how that sheath was too fat and rattled a bit, so I made another this time all leather.

The seam is not pretty, but with this design it had to go on the front.
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You've inspired me. I'd forgotten I have these flatware handles that somebody sells as bud vases at a local antique mall (also some crafts, obviously, but mostly good old stuff). Someday I was going to forge a whittle-tanged Bowie to go into one. But I also forgot about this Lauri blade blank (the Michiganian Scandinavian seems not to stock them anymore).

So anyway, I'll upset the tang and see if I can fit it all into one of the larger-throated handles. If it's too long, I can upset a knob to work into a small guard. It's an inspiration in progress, but I think I'll get there.
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scrteened porch said:
You've inspired me. I'd forgotten I have these flatware handles that somebody sells as bud vases at a local antique mall (also some crafts, obviously, but mostly good old stuff). Someday I was going to forge a whittle-tanged Bowie to go into one. But I also forgot about this Lauri blade blank (the Michiganian Scandinavian seems not to stock them anymore).

So anyway, I'll upset the tang and see if I can fit it all into one of the larger-throated handles. If it's too long, I can upset a knob to work into a small guard. It's an inspiration in progress, but I think I'll get there.
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Sounds like a nice project.

Was it you who had planned on putting one of these cutlery handles on an Umperial h6 or Utica sportsman?
 
Hickory n steel said:
Sounds like a nice project.
Was it you who had planned on putting one of these cutlery handles on an Umperial h6 or Utica sportsman?
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Thanks. If I never get to it, I'll have had a pleasant fantasy life.
You'd have to lose a lot of tang to get an Imperial H6 or Utica Sportsman into one of these handles.
What I was planning to do to a Utica Sportsman type was to get rid of the guard and do a cunningly shaped wooden handle, maybe like a puukko. I've since decided that if straight slabs behind a guard are good enough for GEC, they're good enough for me. I'll just make the handle longer, which is my main issue with them.
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I finished up a new sheath for my 112 today. My old sheath was a happy accident. I was trying to make a sheath for my leatherman but made it slightly too small sobbn i grabbed my 110 and molded it to that. Then it sat for years till i got my 112 recently and started carrying it. Well it took up too much belt real estate so i made a new one modeled after a @Gary W. Graley sheath. I think it came out ok. I wish i had made it a little deeper to cover the wood a bit more but its secure. Heres the old one.20200526_203209_copy_556x741.jpghere is the new one 20200526_203237_copy_556x741.jpg 20200526_203308_copy_556x741.jpg
 
Hello All,

I made this "tactical" walking cane for want of anything else to do :D.

The cane is shown next to my original Cold Steel stainless steel knobbed City Stick for comparison.

I made the cane out of aluminium tubing with a hardwood dowel glued and pinned inside.
The hardest part was figuring out a strong handle to shaft connection , but at the same time I wanted the handle to appear flimsily attached.
I wanted the cane to appear non-threatining.
The cane is stronger than it appears to be , I just hope that it will not bend or break too easily if I ever have to use it , and yes , it is loaded towards the handle :D.

My Cold Steel City Stick weighs about 22 ounces and is a bit too heavy for quick handling.

The home-made cane weighs about 18 ounces and is quick and "handy".

What do you think.

;).





Cheers.
 
Re-built a Mikov shell-handle cheapo:
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Deleted the can opener and liner lock and added brass spacer:
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Pivot pin is visible on the one side, and there are a few gaps. I had to reuse the liners it came with because my local hobby shop is still shut down and I couldn’t get a sheet of brass. The mending plate I made the bolsters from had a slight bevel along one edge, which I somehow managed to put next to the scale on the back side, causing an ugly joint:
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Action is very good and snappy with no blade play, so given my limited range of hand tools I am pleased, despite the cosmetic flaws. Just shy of 4 inches closed. Carbon steel.
 
I made a slide for the wildrag I've got coming from @Horsewright. I expect we'll be masked for a while; I might as well be masked in comfort with panache.
I just drilled a half-inch hole into the end of a stick of wild cherry, sawed it off, and opened the hole with a little Mora. And stained it with my half cherry and half colonial maple stain, and sealed it with some clear satin spray enamel.
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(Woo hoo! It's shipped!)
 
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I decided I did not like the ring hilt rapier. Too vulnerable for thrusts from the front and heavy, so I made it into a bastard, like I orginally had in mind. I might remove the large siderings and leave the front rings, that woulf be more correct for the period. In outside molinelli the ring also bumps in to the back of my hand, restricting movement. Also the pommel is not quite right, but that's what I had.

I have started to do spanish rapier exercises (la verdadera destreza, Luis Diaz de Viedma 1639 being my source) and get a cup or dish hilt for that.

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scrteened porch said:
I made a slide for the wildrag I've got coming from @Horsewright. I expect we'll be masked for a while; I might as well be masked in comfort with panache.
I just drilled a half-inch hole into the end of a stick of wild cherry, sawed it off, and opened the hole with a little Mora. And stained it with my half cherry and half colonial maple stain, and sealed it with some clear satin spray enamel.
7pbZzkx.jpg

(Woo hoo! It's shipped!)
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Hello,

If this is what I think it is , we used to call them "woggles" when I was in the Boy Scouts.
We used to make ours out of bone with crude "Boy Scout carvings" on them.
Nice.

Cheers.
 
HFinn said:
I decided I did not like the ring hilt rapier. Too vulnerable for thrusts from the front and heavy, so I made it into a bastard, like I orginally had in mind. I might remove the large siderings and leave the front rings, that woulf be more correct for the period. In outside molinelli the ring also bumps in to the back of my hand, restricting movement. Also the pommel is not quite right, but that's what I had.

I have started to do spanish rapier exercises (la verdadera destreza, Luis Diaz de Viedma 1639 being my source) and get a cup or dish hilt for that.

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Hello,

Nice.

If I may ask , what does an average Rapier weigh , I have always been curious about this.

Thanks.

Cheers.
 
HFinn said:
I decided I did not like the ring hilt rapier. Too vulnerable for thrusts from the front and heavy, so I made it into a bastard, like I orginally had in mind. I might remove the large siderings and leave the front rings, that woulf be more correct for the period. In outside molinelli the ring also bumps in to the back of my hand, restricting movement. Also the pommel is not quite right, but that's what I had.

I have started to do spanish rapier exercises (la verdadera destreza, Luis Diaz de Viedma 1639 being my source) and get a cup or dish hilt for that.

Cj69l9O.jpg
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Very cool.
Do you know offhand how long it took our ancestors to come up with the cup hilt?
 
Astrogator said:
Hello,

If this is what I think it is , we used to call them "woggles" when I was in the Boy Scouts.
We used to make ours out of bone with crude "Boy Scout carvings" on them.
Nice.

Cheers.
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I came across "woggle" in my research. I don't remember what we called them in Cub Scouts.
 
scrteened porch said:
Very cool.
Do you know offhand how long it took our ancestors to come up with the cup hilt?
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In Spain, early 1600's. Rapier started to mature as a weapon in 1560-70 in Italy, allthough differences between sidesword and early rapier are not very clear. It took about 100-120 years development from medieval arming sword to sidesword to rapier.

But then there were war rapiers with heavier blades, so italians called them just "spada", swords. So what is a rapier?
 
HFinn said:
In Spain, early 1600's. Rapier started to mature as a weapon in 1560-70 in Italy, allthough differences between sidesword and early rapier are not very clear. It took about 100-120 years development from medieval arming sword to sidesword to rapier.

But then there were war rapiers with heavier blades, so italians called them just "spada", swords. So what is a rapier?
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Yeah. Maybe normal people never cared about sword nomenclature any more than they do about pocket knife nomenclature..
 
HFinn said:
As I live in a metric country: from about 1 kilo to 1,3 They were heavier than most people usually think.
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Hello,

Thanks for answering , metric measurements are fine with me.

Those old Swordsmen must have been strong to be able to use those Rapiers :).

Cheers.
 
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