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Offline Lin Rhea

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New way to make a knife
« on: July 09, 2013, 12:08:00 PM »
"Wood" you call this an Integral?
 
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Offline tomsm44

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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2013, 03:51:00 PM »
Is that a forged or stock removal blade?   :D . I like the Damascus pattern.  Almost has a "wood grain" look to it.

Seriously though, what is it you are experimenting with?  Just trying out handle designs, or is this going to be a fully finished wooden replica?  Either way its a neat idea.
 
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Offline Lin Rhea

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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2013, 04:31:00 PM »
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One piece of Hickory.

I'm making this one to be covered in resin and painted. It will be a part of a life size sculpture of Jim Bowie in the famous fight on the sandbar. I'm patterning it after the knife called the Forrest Knife. Some say that is the actual knife that Bowie used on that occasion. This all in preparation for an exhibit at the museum where I work. It will be an exciting exhibit opening.
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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2013, 04:56:00 PM »
I think you definitely "have a handle" on that checkering. I guess some guys are multi-talented and others simply are not talented.

You just work as cleanly in wood as you do in metal.

I want to see the finished knife - maybe before painting and after?
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Offline Lin Rhea

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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2013, 06:38:00 PM »
Ron, I will certainly try to take the pics if I can. I'll have to turn it over to the sculptor at some point.

The attention to detail is because this is an antique Bowie exhibit with potentially lots of experts seeing it. I want it to look identifiable as the Forrest Knife which all of those guys would know by sight.

This is a good way to practice using my checkering tools too. I rounded up some old fashioned thumb tacks to serve as domed rivets to go in the drilled recesses.
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Offline tomsm44

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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2013, 07:33:00 PM »
:thumbsup:  

I like it.  Where is the museum you work at?  I've heard you mention it before but never heard where its at.  I may try to make it up there sometime.  If its close to Hot Springs it might make a fun weekend trip for my wife and I.
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Offline Lin Rhea

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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2013, 08:44:00 PM »
Downtown Little Rock. Historic Arkansas Museum. Come on by.
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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2013, 08:56:00 AM »

 

The round tacks will be silver colored eventually when the rest of the knife is coated and painted. The corn cob pipe is one I made for the education dept. and for size reference. Plus it's cool.   :)
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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2013, 02:15:00 PM »
Wow!
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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2013, 09:48:00 AM »
pretty cool  :thumbsup:
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Re: New way to make a knife
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2013, 02:48:00 PM »
That looks awesome!   :thumbsup:
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