No choils on seaxs, Samwise, otherwise its just a "reverse tanto".
A good Seax knife ?
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Sam Cade
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I'm still calling it a techno saex. 
Keep on and I'll cut in semifunctional spine side sawteeth with an angle grinder and call it a survival saex.
Keep on and I'll cut in semifunctional spine side sawteeth with an angle grinder and call it a survival saex.
Shanghai McCoy
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It's Seax-y and he knows it... 
Gaaaaaaaahhhh!
Shanghai McCoy
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I, too, haven't seen one that really makes me reach for the credit card either. I'll be having more time available for projects come August so maybe I'll try my hand at making one then.
Sam Cade
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Ok, I know!
I'll sharpen the clip and call it a Saex-Bowie!
Devastating Back Cut!
I'll sharpen the clip and call it a Saex-Bowie!
Devastating Back Cut!
Radagast
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Naming it a techno-seax is just tooting your own horn.
*ducks*
*ducks*
Sam Cade
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If it makes a musical note when swung we could call it a saexophone.
Shanghai McCoy
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Uh Oh, now what did I start..?
Madcap_Magician
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Very punny.
It doesn't have the traditional grip, but Bark River Knife and Tool makes has a Golok variation with a seax point that is pretty cool. Aside from the nontraditional (pinned G10, wood, or micarta) it's an excellent knife.
It doesn't have the traditional grip, but Bark River Knife and Tool makes has a Golok variation with a seax point that is pretty cool. Aside from the nontraditional (pinned G10, wood, or micarta) it's an excellent knife.
Sam1911
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Exactly! Which is why mine don't count. And they're too "stabby." Should be a bit blunter, I think, especially the big one.
Sam Cade
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Sam-saexes.
Sam, (the other Sam)
There were small pointy seaxs and big broad steep pointed seaxs. Yours would fit in fine squatting around a fire in furs if they had simple tangs with wood or bone scales.
There were small pointy seaxs and big broad steep pointed seaxs. Yours would fit in fine squatting around a fire in furs if they had simple tangs with wood or bone scales.
walking arsenal
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I've got a Kris cutlery Scramasax that is a very nice looking blade. It comes naked though so you will have to dress the scabbard and do some finishing to the handle if you get one. I'm in t he process of doing mine right now. It's taking a while because I want it to look period authentic but can't decide on a design.
You guys that actually make knives will scoff... but this was my solution to an inexpensive costume seax for the Renaissance Fest...
$17 Pakistani bowie knife with bone scales from Amazon scrubbed of markings with a 3M pad and given a bath in slathered yellow mustard overnight.
A pattern cut from cardboard and matched in tooling leather with a couple pre-made hanger straps. A few hours here and there wet shaping, sewing, carving and it's starting to look like a Viking's knife when sheathed blade up.
I'm having so much fun carving leather I've bought a bunch more tools. No, it doesn't look like a Tandy, and it's not supposed to.
(Mortified that my Bagwell Bowie also fits this sheath.)
$17 Pakistani bowie knife with bone scales from Amazon scrubbed of markings with a 3M pad and given a bath in slathered yellow mustard overnight.
A pattern cut from cardboard and matched in tooling leather with a couple pre-made hanger straps. A few hours here and there wet shaping, sewing, carving and it's starting to look like a Viking's knife when sheathed blade up.
I'm having so much fun carving leather I've bought a bunch more tools. No, it doesn't look like a Tandy, and it's not supposed to.
(Mortified that my Bagwell Bowie also fits this sheath.)
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Sam1911
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Oh, man that is COOL! I really like that!
You're going to have to take a grinder to it to reshape the blade to seax profile, but you've got a good start to it.
Sam Cade
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Sam1911
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That's a serious little knife! Cool!
Shanghai McCoy
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Nice Sam. Very nice.
Sam Cade
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Yes. All of the above.
..and I'm pretty ruthless in my testing so a lot of knives get purposefully broken since I'm still learning the craft and doing my own heat treat.
Right now making knives is a zero cost endeavor for me since the few knives I make to sell cover materials. Time is my chief constraint.
I'm to the point now where some capital investment to upgrade my grinder is probably the smart thing to do.
Probably to the Grizzly G1015, which if memory serves, is the grinder that Sam1911 uses.
To keep this on topic, the Saex/Wharncliffe/Sheepsfoot profile is about the easiest pattern of knife to grind since the grind is perfectly straight.
Just grind the primary bevel, then chop the point to your desired shape.
Easy-peasy.
Sam1911
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Yup! With the bigger 10" lower wheel.
I can see a lot of benefit to the bigger more professional grinders, but the cost'll kill ya.
The Grizzly will take off just as much skin and fingernails as the big boys...
A knife maker's grinder will pay for itself in time if you're intending to make a profit from the knives you make.
Fred Fuller
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OK, y'all made me look. Who knew there were so many belt sanders?
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