Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

protourist said:
I like the way you think. :thumbup:

Wait, did you say "pin up girl in a thong"?
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Or a pair of pinups?
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Tease shot of the spine and swedge.
Bevels are in and the tang yelled at me to be tapered.

Looks wacky, but bare with me Chris.
 
That looks amazing. Sorry I didn't respond earlier. I'm in Austin turning 12 hour days. This shop is kicking my butt.
 
Glad youre good with that, I'm not a fan of jimping but I wanted a little bit of grip up there. Stippling the thumb area popped in my head the other day and I thought I'd try it out. No flint sparking edge, I'll throw in a bic lighter in with it.:D
 
That is seriously freaking cool.
 
Thanks Mack, really feels good. Looking forward to what it looks like blackened and polished over.


Oh, and Wilson, any guess on thumpling now?:D
 
I have plenty of lighters and knives that will scrape a ferro rod. Speaking of, KSF just put up a bunch of $100 ferro rods. Probably to go with ones $300 knuckles and titanium bottle openers/2" pry bars.

Anyway, enough with that nonsense. I have thumpling! :D
 
Bic needs to change their marketing and up their prices, "Ferro-less flame rods" $99.99!

I saw something the other day that was for sale for $750, cant remember if it was a pen, or a bead or a knuck, if thats what some guys are into, more power to them I guess.

When I thought about stippling the thumb secfion that popped in my head, goofy, but it will stick in my head in the future, "Hmmm,should I thumple this or not?"
 
Thanks for another ride-along John and Chris! Can't wait to see how she turns out! Love the "thumpling! :thumbup::D
 
Thanks guys, I really suck at WIP's because I get going and forget to take pictures! These are more like LIP's, (Lunatic In Progress):D

Flatsanded the Cocobolo a bit, drilling holes for a tapered tang is tricky. The 1/16" nickel pins will give a little wiggle room because they'll flex a bit if I'm off a hair, but the tubing for the thong hole won't. I adjusted the table on the drill press and did a test run on some scrap wood, looks like we'll be in good shape.

I'll get some more pics up soon.
 
lessismore said:
Thanks Mack, really feels good. Looking forward to what it looks like blackened and polished over.


Oh, and Wilson, any guess on thumpling now?:D
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I would never have guessed that, but it makes perfect sense. New term coined.

I can't wait to see how the final product looks.
 
All the pin holes lined up well, it's a bit nerve wracking for me on a tapered tang especially with a hand picked material. The grain is looking like it should line up nicely with the curves in the handle.

In case anyone is wondering why tapered tangs require more attention, it's that the tang that the scales sit on is tapered, so the scales don't sit parallel to each other. If they sat parallel to each other, then drilling 90° holes would work to get a pin through both, but since the scales mount in a "V" shape because of the taper ,90° holes wont line up for the pin. You have to drill angled holes in relation to how much the taper is, which is tricky for me, if youre just a bit off, the scales wont sit flush. Now, that is by far the worst description of pin holes for a tapered tang, but as a guy that's learned new swear words trying to get them right, I tend to appreciate a tapered tang when I see them.

I'm sure most everyone already knew this, but in case anyone was wondering what the deal was, that's one thing makes them a little more labor intensive. They are the best way to balance a knife though in my opinion. I usually take them down very thin, but the height and length of this blade shouldn't require much to get a good balance, I took this one down to half the thickness. A blade heavy knife feels like it wants to fall out of your hand, and a butt heavy one feels awkward.

Ive got family in town for a few more days. Don't these people know I have things to do! Just kidding, my little ones love time with their grandparents. I'll get some pics up soon.
 
pertinux said:
Now that's a proposition.

(Chris, if I were you? I'd consider backing away, all slow-like. :eek:)

Great image, Lessismore. I look forward to seeing more. :thumbup:


Of the knife.

~ P.
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We're out of towels, and I'm too old to go diving into lockers.:D

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pertinux said:
Now that's a proposition.

(Chris, if I were you? I'd consider backing away, all slow-like. :eek:)

Great image, Lessismore. I look forward to seeing more. :thumbup:


Of the knife.

~ P.
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The Sheriffs in Town!
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Good to see you ~P! Stick around,we'll keep our towels on:p
 
A question. Just how is 'thumpling' done? I nebber seen such a ting...
 
I've got a ton of old punches that I end up shaping down for different things. I took a punch and rounded it down to a smooth point. After I profiled the blade out I sandwiched it in between two pieces of hardened steel and put it in the vise, mostly to minimize mushrooming. Took a small hammer and started tapping with random speed swings and stippled it a little past where I wanted the swedge to start. Flatsanded the blank and gave the spine a shoeshine to knock down the edges.

One thing about stippling I've noticed (and I am an absolute novice at it), is that you've got to tap in a complete random pattern over the whole area, if you start in one spot and fill in from one end to the other, it won't look right, and you're eye will find a pattern. And you have to cover 100% of the area, the tiniest spot that is left original will stand out like a sore thumb. In the picture I posted, I can see a row of four heavy strikes in a curved line that make a pattern, it sticks out and is from doing too even swing speeds.

In other words, tap the crap out of it with a punch:D
 
I've had family in town so solid Shop time has been limited, having said that, I can't help but fiddle around. I also get strange ideas that I gotta get out of my head.

So I got what Tim said was a "brain worm". I really liked the fish story that Chris told earlier, and I had some scrap when I cut the scales. So I thought I'd just whittle a hokey little fishlike object as a gag gift kind of thing. But then I got obsessed about it like close encounters of the third kind when he makes the mountain out of mashed potatoes, and what was supposed to be a quick little fish, turned into the strange thing below.

The question is:

Chris, does the Missus have a shelf where things go to collect dust? One with room for a weird Cocobolo fishlike object? If not, I'll find it a home in a river somewheres (some folks cant stand trinkets and I completely understand if that's the case my friend).

Oh, and some knife content:D

 
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