Erin Burke
Well-Known Member
Good afternoon Dogs,
Knife #15 is in the books... and I'm happy to be done with her. She fought me at every corner... and eventually left me a beaten and dispirited shadow of a man. Here she is.
Some Stats:
Length: 10-1/8"
Blade: 5-7/16" (tip to choil?)
Steel: Through-hardened 1095 (from Kelly Cupples) Flat-Ground
Handle: WSSI Stabilized Katalox Scales with frame handle and hidden pins
Guard and Butt Bolsters: 416ss
While I am content wit the overall feel and design of this knife, the are a few things that really didn't turn out how I had hoped.
This is the first frame handle that I've attempted. It added a whole new level of complexity to the project, and while I did get it to work, you can see from the third photo that the handle frame does not line-up perfectly with the spine of the blade. There are alignment pins between the frame and the guard, but they must have been slightly offset... either that, or I screwed up one side when tapering the frame. Either way, I'm rather disappointed by this flaw. On top of that, the misalignment makes one scale look a little thinner along the spine.
inch:
This is the second knife where I tried to make a faceted handle that includes complex curves. I wish I could figure out a good way to do this cleanly. I shape the facets on my 8" wheel, but it is very difficult to keep clean sharp lines, especially at the transition points between the guard/scales and the scales/butt-bolsters. If somebody has any good tricks for this, I'd love to hear them.
Now that I've pointed out the bad stuff, I will say that, as far as fighters go, this is one ranks right up there with the best handling knives I have produced.
Erin
Knife #15 is in the books... and I'm happy to be done with her. She fought me at every corner... and eventually left me a beaten and dispirited shadow of a man. Here she is.
Some Stats:
Length: 10-1/8"
Blade: 5-7/16" (tip to choil?)
Steel: Through-hardened 1095 (from Kelly Cupples) Flat-Ground
Handle: WSSI Stabilized Katalox Scales with frame handle and hidden pins
Guard and Butt Bolsters: 416ss
While I am content wit the overall feel and design of this knife, the are a few things that really didn't turn out how I had hoped.
This is the first frame handle that I've attempted. It added a whole new level of complexity to the project, and while I did get it to work, you can see from the third photo that the handle frame does not line-up perfectly with the spine of the blade. There are alignment pins between the frame and the guard, but they must have been slightly offset... either that, or I screwed up one side when tapering the frame. Either way, I'm rather disappointed by this flaw. On top of that, the misalignment makes one scale look a little thinner along the spine.
inch:This is the second knife where I tried to make a faceted handle that includes complex curves. I wish I could figure out a good way to do this cleanly. I shape the facets on my 8" wheel, but it is very difficult to keep clean sharp lines, especially at the transition points between the guard/scales and the scales/butt-bolsters. If somebody has any good tricks for this, I'd love to hear them.
Now that I've pointed out the bad stuff, I will say that, as far as fighters go, this is one ranks right up there with the best handling knives I have produced.
Erin
