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Offline bobnewboy

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My first Scandi style knife
« on: January 08, 2011, 08:51:58 pm »
Hi All,

Following on from some gentle unintended prompting from Stan (Backgardenbowyer) last year, I bought a blade and made myself a Scandinavian style knife.  The blade is an Anssi 125 in hardened and tempered high carbon steel.  It has a rhombic/diamond shaped cross section which made it a swine to fit to the handle, but it is incredibly sharp and a great shape.  The handle is made up of brass, buffalo horn, brass, then alder root, brass and finally a large pommel of buff horn.  The finish is CCL knife oil kit.

I'm not completely happy with the sheath but it will be fine for now.  It is made from wet formed veg tanned 3mm leather with a skived, turned lip, and thick leather inserts in the blade area.  I gave it three coats of Fiebings leather dye in British Tan colour, and then rubbed it down with a bone folder.  The final finish was brown boot polish.

Hope you like it - it will be accompanying me to shoots from now on.
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2011, 08:57:11 pm »
few more.
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2011, 09:00:23 pm »
..and
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2011, 09:16:36 pm »
thats a nice knife i like it .
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2011, 09:55:17 pm »
very nice work.
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2011, 11:27:38 pm »
 Knife and Sheath, both are beautifull. Fine job with that combo.
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2011, 12:02:11 am »
Gorgeous Knife!!!
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2011, 04:27:10 am »
Very nice knife, very nice sheath!
Would love to hear details on how the sheath was made!!!
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2011, 05:12:52 am »
Very good! Alder rot,how is that  to work with? Looks about the same as curly grained Birch.
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2011, 08:18:32 am »
Hi Guys,

Thanks for the comments.  Tbod, the alder root is a nice figured wood, but I have found it a bit on the soft side and seems to mark easily - curly grained birch isnt very hard either, but I now think makes for a better handle.  Medicinewheel, I have another knife in progress, with a very hard wood handle (amboina burl) - I'll post a build along when I get to the sheath making.  I also have another small knife already finished, which I am now using as my leather cutter, I'll post that one later today.
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2011, 11:59:29 am »
Great, thanks!
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2011, 12:45:27 pm »
You have talent!  A/Ho Pokie
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2011, 01:09:17 pm »
dont know why your not happy with the sheath, it's very nice. knife is absolutely beautiful.  good job
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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2011, 02:15:31 pm »
                           That is one awesome knife.
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Offline John K

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Re: My first Scandi style knife
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2011, 03:36:59 pm »
Looks great ! What are the measurements ?
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