Saturday, September 4, 2010

First finished knife!

It's done! Huzzah!

I proceeded to apply epoxy to one side of one of the scales, and the knife tang. I applied pressure, and lined them both up. After waiting for approximately 30 seconds, I set it down and let it cure. It's a quick setting 5 minute epoxy. After 10 minutes I did the same with the other scale. After 20 minutes, it was ready to grind to its final shape:


Yes, I know I have girly hands :x
I'll upload a video or three later tonight showing some of the handle shaping. Just let me know, woudl you all prefer I upload them to youtube, or megaupload? They're much smaller in file size now (10-23mb instead of 100-230mb)

12 comments:

  1. Good job dude, what stain are you going to use for the hilt? Or are you just going to leave it plain?

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  2. Oh damn man. That's badass. No joke.

    Showing the support.

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  3. girly hands? not really my primary concern when they're holding an awesome weapon of manly stabbitude.

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  4. saw the knife and I just HAD to follow, great blog!!

    Bang! Support incoming!
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  5. thats really cool

    nice blog showing my support :)
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  6. wow thats pretty sweet i wish i could do something like that

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  7. Whoa man! that thing looks friggin sweet! Good job.

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  8. Well done! Going to try to make some more exotic knives? Like say weaponry knives just for fun maybe? Or do you stick to practical knives?

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  9. Well done. Nice to see the completed project!

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  10. Wow that knife looks awesome, umm think you can make me one lol?

    I loved watching it go from nothing to this

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