rcmodel
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I made this 4” Drop-point in 1983, the blade was ground & tempered from O1 steel.
Hand checkered thumb rest section on the top spine of the blade.
Sheath is a molded force fit with green suede lining.
Scales are old Westinghouse Ivory Micarta.
Guard & pins are German Silver.
Thong liner is 1/4" stainless tubing.
This was my first, and about only, feeble attempt at Scrimshaw.
Mostly done with an Exacto knife blade or a sewing needle in a collet hand chuck.
Scratchings filled in with water based Acrylic paint, then buffed off with a red rouge charged soft cotton buffing wheel at 1,650 RPM.
It's a wonderment to watch the scrimshaw drawing emerge from underneath a hodgepodge of different color paint splotches!!!
Then you think, Damn it Worked!
And I won't have to hand sand the scales two more days to get rid of those scratches and make it a decent looking knife again!
BTW: Just so you know, Scrimshaw isn’t at all hard to do.
It’s drawing really lifelike animal patterns on the scales with a sharp drafting pencil to scrimshaw that is really almost impossible for me to do!!
I never was that good an artist!
Right side scale is a wounded Buffalo with a broken Indian lance in his lungs.
Left side scale is a Coyote with only the skeleton remains and broken stone tip lance.
rc
Hand checkered thumb rest section on the top spine of the blade.
Sheath is a molded force fit with green suede lining.
Scales are old Westinghouse Ivory Micarta.
Guard & pins are German Silver.
Thong liner is 1/4" stainless tubing.
This was my first, and about only, feeble attempt at Scrimshaw.
Mostly done with an Exacto knife blade or a sewing needle in a collet hand chuck.
Scratchings filled in with water based Acrylic paint, then buffed off with a red rouge charged soft cotton buffing wheel at 1,650 RPM.
It's a wonderment to watch the scrimshaw drawing emerge from underneath a hodgepodge of different color paint splotches!!!
Then you think, Damn it Worked!
And I won't have to hand sand the scales two more days to get rid of those scratches and make it a decent looking knife again!
BTW: Just so you know, Scrimshaw isn’t at all hard to do.
It’s drawing really lifelike animal patterns on the scales with a sharp drafting pencil to scrimshaw that is really almost impossible for me to do!!
I never was that good an artist!
Right side scale is a wounded Buffalo with a broken Indian lance in his lungs.
Left side scale is a Coyote with only the skeleton remains and broken stone tip lance.
rc
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