B. Norris Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Here are some pictures of a few recent pieces. ~Bruce~ 1 “All work is empty save when there is love, for work is love made visible.” Kahlil Gibran "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emiliano Carrillo Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I especially like that viking knife with the brass ring! Whats the handle wood? And is that carved antler on the first one? Great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Hebbard Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Good stuff! the one with the carved ferule is my favourite...need to practice some more carving! To become old and wise... You first have to survive being young and foolish! Ikisu.blogsot.com. Email; milesikisu@gmail.com mobile: +27784653651 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Yeigh Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I agree with Mr. Hebbard. Nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Norris Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Emiliano, The one with the ring has a handle of Red Oak Burl. I soaked it in a strong tea solution to darken it up a bit. Also wiped it down with vinegaroon, then sanded the black off. The black doesn't sand out of any of the porous areas and tends to accent the grain. Yes, the first one has a carved, whitetail, ferrule. I started carving the antler, by hand but, did not make much progress. After attending Axe 'N" Seax-in" and seeing Petr's demonstration... I grew a pair and finished it up with the dremel! This knife will also have a ring on the end of the handle, when it is done. ~Bruce~ 1 “All work is empty save when there is love, for work is love made visible.” Kahlil Gibran "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin Miller Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Nice! that seax has a great shape, and I too like the carved bolster.Did you make that brooch in the background of the last picture, with the puukko? It looks great too! “If you trust in yourself. . . believe in your dreams. . . and follow your star. . . you will still get beaten by the people who have spent their time working hard and learning things, the people who weren't so lazy.” ~ Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emiliano Carrillo Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Thats a good method of darkening up and staining the wood! I've been meaning to get into using the dremel for carving some stuff, I think I'll give it a shot! hopefully it ends up half as well as yours did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Norris Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Brooch comes from North Star Armoury. The relief work is made by acid etching. The hardest part of carving with the dremel, is finding burrs small enough and having the right shape! Burrs for the dremel either seem to be very small, 1/32"-1/16", for engraving work or quite large 1/4" or so. I ended up using some diamond burrs, mostly because I already had them and the size and shapes worked for what I was doing. ~Bruce~ “All work is empty save when there is love, for work is love made visible.” Kahlil Gibran "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Green Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Very nice Bruce!! I like them all. I'm with you, after many years of resisting, I have broken out the dremel. I have just started to learn how to use it, but those diamond burrs seem to work well, on many materials, and are not that expensive. Plus they have many nice sanding attachments now, in all sizes. Mark Green I have a way? Is that better then a plan? (cptn. Mal) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Bruce, those are some great looking knives! just out of curiosity, how long are the handles? "He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world was mad" Sabatini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Norris Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 The broken-back seax has a handle length of 7 & 5/8 inches. OAL of 17 & 1/2 inches. Blade is 10 inches long, 1 & 5/8 inches wide at the break, and 1/4 inch thick for most of the length. Handle is some nice, straight grained, walnut in a teardrop cross section. This thing feels very tool like in the hand, sort of like some farmer cut the handle down on a polearm and started using it as a knife. Steel is up-cycled leaf spring but, not the usual 5160, 9260, or 6150, it acts more like a 10xx steel, maybe 1060. The Viking knife, with the carved, antler, bolster has a handle length of 4 & 5/8 inches. OAL of 8 & 7/8 inches. Blade is just slightly under 4 & 1/2 inches, 5/8 inch wide at the widest point, thickness is about 1/8 inch. The wood on this one is Milo, a hardwood from Hawaii that is similar to Koa. Steel is up-cycled coil spring, most likely 9260, it seems to have a ghost of a hamon to it. The small Viking has a handle length of 4 & 1/8 inch, not counting the ring or its keeper. OAL of just under 7 & 3/4 inches. Blade is 3 & 5/8 inches, 9/16 inch wide at the widest point, thickness is just a hair under 1/8 inch. Wood on this handle, as previously mentioned, is Red Oak Burl. Steel is 6150 and might show a hamon if I polished and worked at it. Right now it is at 400 grit and then etched . This one came out with the blade not quite in line with the handle. I guess my wife gets to keep this one like she wants to! The Puukko had a handle of around 4 inches but, is already sold so I cannot give exact measurements. The handle is some curly birch I found with a traditional flaxseed (linseed) oil finish. I was reading about spoon carving and one of the websites I stumbled upon mentioned soaking the fresh carved spoons in flaxseed oil for 3 days or so, until they stop absorbing oil. The birch wood is quite thirsty and really soaks the oil up. The flaxseed oil is supposed to polymerize and harden up a bit after a few months. The oil has quite a yellow cast to it but, even so, I really like it. No other oil I've used seems to bring out the character of the wood quite like the flaxseed oil! ~Bruce~ “All work is empty save when there is love, for work is love made visible.” Kahlil Gibran "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEzell Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I love all of them, but the big seax would be the one I'd pick up first.... George Ezell, bladesmith" How much useful knowledge is lost by the scattered forms in which it is ushered to the world! How many solitary students spend half their lives in making discoveries which had been perfected a century before their time, for want of a condensed exhibition of what is known."Buffonview some of my work RelicForge on facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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