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    Wadiyatalkinabeet Ryan_Songhurst's Avatar
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    Broke my wee Svord peasant knife so I gave it a new lease on life as a fixed blade
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    Flappy Disc Customs Bespoke Hunting Rifles

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst View Post
    Broke my wee Svord peasant knife so I gave it a new lease on life as a fixed blade
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    Nice. I changed out my plastic handle for an antler one too.

    Sent from my SM-G525F using Tapatalk

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    Made right here in sunny Nelson!

    I wanted a Loveless style 'dropped hunter' ( see this thread for some beautiful things https://www.lovelessknives.com/hunting/ )
    So Steve 'knocked' this up - but for less than a genuine Bob Loveless original! (January 2, 1929 – September 2, 2010)

    ATS-34 Stainless tool steel @ HRC 61

    Green Canvas Micarta

    Mirror polished, in a 4mm Russet leather hand stitched sheath.

    As with Loveless knives, you may be able to make out the wafer thin red in-lay just visible around the micarta. And I particularly like the way the steel is tapered back through the handle.

    Anyway, have a nosey and see what ya think.

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    Orkot-handled Elmax drop point.

    This weekend just past finished off an Elmax blank I made four+ years ago (Uddeholm Elmax: C 1.7%; Si 0.8%; Mn 0.3%; Cr 18%; Mo 1.0%; V 3.0%).
    Overall length 243 mm, blade length 120 mm, blade thickness at spine 3.3 mm.
    Heat treated by me (last time I'll do that, as the furnace's thermocouple burnt out at 1100C), tests out at HRC 57.
    Hollow-ground blade, tapered tang, (lead-free) soldered brass guard, hand-made knifemaker's bolts, Orkot (kind of like micarta) handle.
    Hard to get a decent photo. Inset shows detail of tapering and fit at guard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst View Post
    Broke my wee Svord peasant knife so I gave it a new lease on life as a fixed blade
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    Good. Best improvement you can do to those things.
    Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing, and right-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahr View Post
    Good. Best improvement you can do to those things.
    My thoughts exactly.
    Experience. What you get just after you needed it.

 

 

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