Your opinion on this spine sculpting?

Rennd

Rennd

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I made some strange spine design on my buck vantage pro. Does this look alright to you guys? I'd like to get some opinions before I do it to a knife I care about.
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Please ignore the crappy jimping.
 
That does in fact look a little strange, to me, but I think that's the point, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you like it more power to ya!
 
Not to my taste but looks like you've done it quite well. Only you can decide if you like it or not really
 
Looks kind of neat. Is it supposed to resemble a hammered finish or maybe like a broken rock face?
 
It was my first time trying, so thanks for not beating me up about it, haha. I may try to make it more organized.
 
I think it would go good on an acid stonewashed blade, add to the rugged look of the blade.
 
I like it. It's not smooth and fancy....or girly :p

I really like it actually, and that's coming from a guy who hates file-work! It almost has a slightly more uniform, pseudo-knapped look to it. I personally would like it to be more random, like knapping, but I have nothing but thumbs up for you on your work.

Nice :thumbup:
 
Looks cool, and as stated it's your knife and your idea of beauty.

One thing I would suggest is you refrain from doing this to any hunting or food prep knives, as the texturing can make a place for bacteria to hide & grow.
 
Rhinoknives1 said:
Looks cool, and as stated it's your knife and your idea of beauty.



One thing I would suggest is you refrain from doing this to any hunting or food prep knives, as the texturing can make a place for bacteria to hide & grow.
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I can understand that. I wasn't planning to, and I'm glad I didn't!
 
The upper and middle section has a sort of larger anso-style pattern and in each of those grooves are uneven grooves breaking it up. That's how I'd describe it, anyway.

Reminds me of tuffthumbz's rock pattern but it's definitely not the same, it's a unique style and I'm really kinda diggin' it. How'd ya do it? I can never manage to pull off "natural" or random filework that isn't absolutely terrible.
 
Novaculite said:
Hey Rennd, I like that. Can you let us know how you did it?
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It was surprisingly simple, I just went after it with a dremel. First I made some evenly spaced divots in the spine, then I ground the edges with a smaller abrasive wheel. After that, I just randomly tapped at it with the edge of another wheel. After all that, I sanded it to clean it up a bit.
I did it on my bk11, as well.
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Thanks for the info. I like your work, it reminds me of what flint looks like when chipped along the edge.

I twice attended a knife forging seminar. The blacksmith said that after hardening the steel, any spine sculpting would take weeks, so it was only on the second one that I managed to file something into the spine. Maybe he was talking about carbon steel, which we were forging.
 
Novaculite said:
Thanks for the info. I like your work, it reminds me of what flint looks like when chipped along the edge.



I twice attended a knife forging seminar. The blacksmith said that after hardening the steel, any spine sculpting would take weeks, so it was only on the second one that I managed to file something into the spine. Maybe he was talking about carbon steel, which we were forging.
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It actually went quite quickly with the dremel, it only took about 15 minutes, and that was on s30v. If you have a dremel, I'd recommend trying it on a blade you don't think much of. It's surprisingly easy, I was afraid I would ruin my knife at first, but it turned out well. One thing, though: if your blade is distally tapered, be very careful not to spend too much time on the tip of the knife. I burnt the steel trying it on my spyderco centofante III.
 
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