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My first works
After many many time.....this is my first works
Steel: C70 Thickness 4mm Lenght 113mm Handle : Bog Oak red spacers and deer horn Lenght 135mm Handmade leather sheath Total lenght: 248mm This is the second and it's born by a fail blade that I try to save.... C70 steel and beech handle Sorry for my english |
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Welcome Grappo
Love the look of bog oak! Handle shape looks like an interesting combo of deer foot and pistol grip, nice. Your English is fine, Thanks for sharing. __________________ Carl Rechsteiner, Bladesmith Georgia Custom Knifemakers Guild, Charter Member Knifemakers Guild, voting member Registered Master Artist - GA Council for the Arts C Rex Custom Knives Blade Show Table 6-H |
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Very nice work. You should be very proud of both. My only critique would be that like many new makers, you have curves where there shouldn't be curves and exaggerated curves where a gentle curve would be perfect.
Last edited by ricky_arthur; 01-18-2015 at 11:58 AM. |
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Thanks for answer and advice
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Thanks for critique need to do better
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I think most of us makers continually strive to do each knife a little better than the last and we can always find something we can do better or improve on the next one.
The real trick to the game is if the blade functions as planned - cut as designed and hold an edge properly. The fit & finish will follow - working the knife hard will help with the ergonomics of handle design and shape. It's all a fantastic adventure for most of us. Can't help but notice the jeweler's plannishing hammer and the style of your bench anvil. Are you also a jeweler or precious metal smith? The anvil appears to be a cut off section of a large motor armature, very clever. I made several bench anvils of similar construction that see's constant use on each of my shop benches. All are a little different in size/weight according to needs of that particular bench. All are constructed from various size pump drive shafts with some mounted on larger chunks of steel as yours is. Just a note on your sheath/leather work - the tooling looks pretty good, but take a little more time with lining up your stamp (little jumpy around the outside edge). Lightly scribing a guide line will help or you can use a red pencil or pin to mark the guide line, the dye will hide or blend with the red. As with anything mark it accurately and follow your mark. Same with your stitch line. I've seen a lot worse leather work by guys that make beautiful knives and should know/do better. Keep striving for excellence and your work will improve. __________________ Carl Rechsteiner, Bladesmith Georgia Custom Knifemakers Guild, Charter Member Knifemakers Guild, voting member Registered Master Artist - GA Council for the Arts C Rex Custom Knives Blade Show Table 6-H |
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My 3th blade and first hamon WIP
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Quote:
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Ready for handle
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Good eye Carl , you beat me on the interest to the anvil on the bench !!
Grappo keep em coming !! __________________ R.Watson B.C. Canada |
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Good looking knives.
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Yeah Rob......I even see anvils in my sleep sometimes. Don't care what the wifey says, you cannot have too many anvils!
I just always like to look at all the background stuff in pics, amazing what one can see for the looking. Some pretty "telling" things show up. __________________ Carl Rechsteiner, Bladesmith Georgia Custom Knifemakers Guild, Charter Member Knifemakers Guild, voting member Registered Master Artist - GA Council for the Arts C Rex Custom Knives Blade Show Table 6-H |
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Steel C70 with hamon
Handle walnut wood Spacers Blu 0,8mm Total Convex Heat treatment by Francesco Goffredi Total 25cm Blade 13,2cm Sorry for not too good pics waiting for critical and comments |
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Looks good. Be sure to make one like that to test, work it very hard, so that you know that it functions as good as it looks ...
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Thanks Ray Rogers!!!
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