KITH

[D. Tiller]

Thanks Tommy! Cant wait to receive it in the mail. Just about have my first knife ready to go. Took a lot of shaping to get the handle and sheath to match up  right. Blade fits in the all wood sheath with a pressure fit.  This is my first knife in this manner which I tried to base on a northwest design for a utilitarian knife. The next one is going to be a bit different with the hafting and design of the handle and I think I will make the sheath out of leather instead of wood since I'm starting to run out of time.  The handle and sheath on the first one are out of cedar. The handle is old growth cedar and the sheath is second growth. I thought the growth ring difference in the wood would be a cool thing to set off the handle and sheath.  This is fun! Wish I could do it more often.

David T

[mullet]

  WheewHoo! Looking forward to my new knives.

[Hillbilly]

Got my blade finished, gotta haft it up now.

[sailordad]

well mt knife is finished, trying to make a sheath now.

i'm finding this to be more challenging than making he knife itself.
gotta figure out how to make the leather fit the knife snuggly yet not to tight and have the proper shape etc etc etc.
well gotta go play with the leather some more now.


                                                                          tim

[DanaM]

Here's my KITH entries:
First is my first stone knife, blade is Kansas chert hafted with elk antler and birch bark sheath.

Second is from big bandsaw steel, hafted with chokecherry burl and a small bolster of abalone sheel, ya can't see the shell in the pictures.

[mullet]

  Those are some pretty ones, Dana.

[woodsman1031]

DanaM,

Those really look great! 


Tommy

[D. Tiller]

Nice Dana! I will be putting my last coat of finnish on my first knife tonight and then I will get a picture of it and send if off on Thursday.

David

[madcrow]

Daggone Dana.  Those look great.  Just box both of them up and send them to me.    I will test them out fully and send back a report on the performance ASAP.

[woodsman1031]

DanaM,

  Where did you get the leather for that chert knife sheath? I like the markings in it.


Tommy

[D. Tiller]

Its not leather! That there is birch bark!!! 

[madcrow]

Hey Tim, you can soak the sheath in rubbing alcohol and then cover the knife with cling wrap and put it in the sheath.  Start pressing down and working the leather wherever you want it to form to the knife.  If you just want it to form to the blade, you can get a couple pieces of thin flat wood a little wider than the sheath, press them to the outside of the blade and clamp with spring clamps or C clamps and let it dry like that.

[DanaM]

Sent em out yesterday

[D. Tiller]

Got the second handler finished now. First knife is done and will go out to the happy customer sometime this week/next week...maybe sometime this month...   Yeah, I know I'm slow!  Must be something in the water.

[mullet]

  Tommy, Got home today and had a great looking knife and Sheath waiting for me. Thanks a lot ,buddy, I'll get some pictures up tomorrow. Tommy are you related to a Tye Thacker up near Wichita Falls, Scotland to be exact?