Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: leapingbare on March 06, 2010, 09:14:38 pm
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As most of you know I've been trying to learn how to make danish daggers for the past year. there have been many many many failed attempts and countless hours of frustration and confusion. But i am starting to finally get it, though these are not up to Par there getting darn close. The Type III is made from KY Blue and is 7 inches long and the Type IV-E is Gorge Town and its almost 6 inches.
They both have there problems i lost stitching off one side of the type III when i was dressing up the pommel and lost stitching on the other face when i was pressure flaking the blade. And my stitching is cockeyed on at the pommel on the Type IV and i don't have stitching around the Pommel because i failed to get sharp enough edges to stitch also the blade is not as clean as i would like.
But I'll get it right one day, here are the pics, enjoy!
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They could both use a little bee's wax to hide all those finger nails.
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Looking pretty darn good to me Jesse! Your light years ahead of me being that you even know how to build a dagger ;D. I'm going to have to get into that one day..
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Oh man Paul, there crazy complicated. So much go's into it so many stages and tricks its mind boggling!
Thats a piece of your Gorge town BTW.
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OK, i reworked the type IV-E, I successfully stitched the pommel and i did secondary pressure stitching over the primary punch stitching, then i waxed it. now i am proud of it.
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If they are ugly, I will take every ugly one of them! ;D They look pretty dern good to me.
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those are amazing
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Good job Jes did you make them at the club this weekend or at home
Ron
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Jesse, It's been less than a year an I can't believe how fast you have progressed on something so difficult,lookin real good an bet it's a job just finding big enough material for daggers. Later Bob
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Thanks guys ;)
I did them at home. i did the type III last night and the Type IV-E today. I probably have 5 hours of working time in the type IV-E dagger
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theyre both great but that iv-e is incredible
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ifn them is ugly,then i like ugly
cause i like them
dont know if my skills will ever hit that level,but man you sure caught on to them fairly quick
keep up the saweet work
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I know those are out of my league, because I don't even understand most of what you are talking about! ::) Anyway, they look great to me! :)
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Those are perty nice Jesse! You'd probly like to know that D.C. Waldorf lives near me and he always has to show me his daggers. Be good if you could set down with him sometime.
Way beyond my abilities.
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Really impressive Jesse. Can't even imagine trying that. Keep up the good work.
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8) 8) 8)
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I figured that was one of those chunks I sent ya Jesse - man you did it justice!
I'd like to take ya up on that offer Timo!
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That is really cool! Just out of curiosity, how many hours in one of those?
Swamp
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Timo it would be real cool to set down with him.
There is about 5 hours in one.
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Those are incredible, Jesse. You'll have it figured out before Claude moves up there.
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Thanks. I had no idea, I actually thought it would be more. Don't forget the time it took you to get there though! People ask me how long it takes me to make a mug, I tell them 15 yrs and 15-20 minutes. When they look at me funny I tell them it took me 15 years to be able to make a mug in 15 to 20 minutes. I found that if I told them 15 to 20 minutes, I'd get this "you want how much for 15-20 minutes of work?!" look. The expressions are different when they look at the price tags after that too. It's easier than telling them 15-20 minutes plus mixing the clay, pugging the clay, weighing the clay, throwing the mug (the 15-20 min part),cutting a foot, attaching a handle, doing the 1st decorating, moving to piece into a bisque kiln, removing the piece, doing a second decorating, glazing, wadding, setting, firing, salting, removing the piece, cleaning up the piece, cleaning up the kiln, packing the piece, driving here, and then waiting for you to come here and ask me a question about my work(which is not a bad thing). If I told them an hour and a half the would look at me with a "damm you suck" look! ;D
Again seriously nice work.
Swamp