Cheers man! Really appreciate it, your right, and I’m eyeing up some tools and I have found someone to give me a crash course in leather work, so hopefully this will be a vid very soon 🤞
great work man, i would recommend you do the grinding which you did with your self built construction, with a flap disk on the angle grinder, thats what i did before i purchased a belt sander to make my knives higher quality
Yeah I have done a couple more knives and used a flap disc and it worked pretty well, the fancy belt grinders are very expensive, one day hopefully, thanks for the support, very much appreciated 👍
Well done! What a superb job you made of this. It really is gorgeous, and I think your rsther bold move of adding the snake-skin texture paid off in spades. I'd never heard of zebrano wood snd I think it's a lovely timber.
Thanks, it turned out not to bad considering this was my first attempt at a full build, just need to have a go at being a blacksmith and we got the full process!
@@BeardyExplorer Your home made sharpening jig was a triumph! For some reason I assumed you'd need to fasten the file to the steel alignment rod, but you show that it can simply be hand-held. And you're already good at shaping side scales.
Thank you, yeah the jig worked great I thought I would need a way of fastening the file to the rod but it turns out, it wasn’t need just a fairly firm grip and lots of patience 😂
@@BeardyExplorer Ah...the patience. I'm going to come right out and confess right now that I use a grinder with a carborundum disc to rough out the lion's share of my bevels. So I've been wondering repeatedly how l o n g It must have taken you to creste that (frankly formidable) bevel. I mean, it's a thick old knife! Surely you can't have done it in a day...or did you?
Hella dope knife @BeardyExplorer! Now it needs an equally dope sheath!
Cheers man! Really appreciate it, your right, and I’m eyeing up some tools and I have found someone to give me a crash course in leather work, so hopefully this will be a vid very soon 🤞
great work man, i would recommend you do the grinding which you did with your self built construction, with a flap disk on the angle grinder, thats what i did before i purchased a belt sander to make my knives higher quality
Yeah I have done a couple more knives and used a flap disc and it worked pretty well, the fancy belt grinders are very expensive, one day hopefully, thanks for the support, very much appreciated 👍
nice 😏🤘
Well done! What a superb job you made of this. It really is gorgeous, and I think your rsther bold move of adding the snake-skin texture paid off in spades.
I'd never heard of zebrano wood snd I think it's a lovely timber.
Thanks, it turned out not to bad considering this was my first attempt at a full build, just need to have a go at being a blacksmith and we got the full process!
@@BeardyExplorer Your home made sharpening jig was a triumph!
For some reason I assumed you'd need to fasten the file to the steel alignment rod, but you show that it can simply be hand-held.
And you're already good at shaping side scales.
Thank you, yeah the jig worked great I thought I would need a way of fastening the file to the rod but it turns out, it wasn’t need just a fairly firm grip and lots of patience 😂
@@BeardyExplorer Ah...the patience. I'm going to come right out and confess right now that I use a grinder with a carborundum disc to rough out the lion's share of my bevels. So I've been wondering repeatedly how l o n g It must have taken you to creste that (frankly formidable) bevel. I mean, it's a thick old knife! Surely you can't have done it in a day...or did you?
I would say I did nearly 5 hours straight with the file work, the entire knife took 3 days but jumping on and off it between family duties
But an easy way to make a good sheath if you can't gather the leather is with p.v.c pipe and a heat gun
That’s cool idea, and could be a fun project, thanks for that inspiration 👍
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Miy buena pieza!!! Saludos desde Chile.
Sugerencia. Para templar, necesitas mas aceite.
Thanks man, more oil! Good idea, unfortunately that was all I had but I will get more for next time
@@BeardyExplorer muy lindo modelo