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bobnewboy:
Hi Fellas, great work, and thanks for the advice!  ;D 

I really like the stacked handle design, and have some suitable material (black buff horn, white/cream cow horn, antler pieces, leather etc) already in suitable sized pieces, but of course its not final in my head yet.  I can see that a full through tang with a riveted handle will be stronger, but I've spent so much time in various parts of scandinavia that I've really come to like the Sami type knives.  I have, er, one or two  ;).

Recently I was in Norway (in the very north), and had a real lightbulb moment.  If you look at Sami knives, the sheaths almost always have a hooked bottom section, like a letter "J".  I couldnt see why that was, thinking it was maybe just a traditional pattern.  But then someone gave me one to handle in the cold - it is to hold the sheath easily when you have thick gloves on !! <light switch = ON> !!  Duuhh..  ::)

//Bob

bobnewboy:
Hi All,

I have now finished the knife, my first.  All of it was made by hand with two big exceptions: a plasma cutter to cut the rough piece from the stock, and an electric buffing wheel to polish the blade.  Everything else was done with hand tools. The making of the blade was a lesson to me from my friend Richard Pelham, a modern professional blacksmith.  The blade was cut out with the plasma cutter (very scary really  :o ), forged, shaped and "packed", and then hardened and tempered under Richard's expert tuition.

The steel is high carbon stock, approx 1/4" thick.  The blade part is 4 1/2" long, with a 4 3/4" handle section.  The stock goes right through, full width in the handle.  The handle pieces are made from spalted birch burl, which is a fantastic but very hard wood to work, with a really beautiful deep layered swirl in it.

All I've got left to do now is to put as good sharp edge on it, which will probably take some time as the blade edge material is very hard.......Oh, and make a sheath.  ;D

Pix below.

//Bob


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DustinDees:
That is a beauty. i have always loved the look of different burls.

Dustin D

bobnewboy:
Hi All,  I have now finally finished a cross between a sheath and a scabbard for the knife.  Oh, and made an entire knife and sheath for my other half  ;D.  The sheath is made from built up pieces of ERC with birch burl outer scales, and an oiled leather neck / belt holder.  Its kind of a cross between a lappish sheath and a wooden scabbard, and I just made it up as I went long, so I dont expect to see anything like it for a while.  It did come out rather big, but that seems to have been a result of the chunky size of the knife (0.25" thick hi-carbon steel blade).  Pictures below.  Thanks for looking.

//Bob


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