Searching For Stone Knife Handles (Pursuing A Dream)
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2023
- I am on a search for the perfect stone that I can use for my knife handles! It has been a long-time dream of mine to use stone for my knife and dagger handles. We visited the Tuscon Gem and Mineral show in Arizona (AZ) USA. This is one of the coolest shows I have ever been to! There are so many tents that have row after row of stones, rocks, gems, and so much more. I did end up finding the perfect rock for the knife handle I have to make.
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On behalf of my fellow Arizonans, I want to thank you for having _good_ things to say about your trip to our state!
I wanted more video of your killer Mexican food!
I've been to Arizona, from Michigan.. AZ is a beautiful state!
I went to the thing. You know the thing?
We _do_ have several of the top-twenty taco joints in the US... so I suppose AZ has _that_ going in its favor.
@@MiBurnout It can be pretty picturesque between the months of November and March. The rest of the year, we're a polluted, pollen-choked, Sun-scorched tinderbox full of people who really shouldn't be allowed _in_ a vehicle, let alone _drive_ one.
In Mexico I have seen a beautiful obsidian with gold glitter in it, it was out of this world
Kyle’s enthusiasm is infectious! It’s also really great to see more of Josh and Mom Royer! Great work as always 🍻
This is why I love the channel. The enthusiasm!
Kyle, for the white marble maybe contact someplace in your area that does custom counter tops. They may have some broken pieces you could get for free or at least cheap. Not sure about using obsidian for knife hilt panels, it may be too brittle. Quartz can DEFINITELY be tricky to work with (I did rock tumbling and carving many moons ago).
As someone who is just teaching myself jade carving, diamond tools are a must have
It’s no wonder your creations are pieces of high art, picking through the materials like a Sushi chef at the Tokyo fish market. Wish I could afford one of yours
I'm totally ignorant of stone work, but it will be fun going on the journey with you, watching you work with this new medium. Cool camera work on the trip Josh. And it was great seeing Mom make an appearance too. Go Team Royer
Stones and minerals have more beauty then I had imagined 😃
Thats gonna be gorgeous!
Hey 👋 guys nice to seeing you back Kyle strike back with elegant touch 👌 blessings 👍 🙌 🙏 ✨️
Thanks for the sharing sharing, can't wait to see your stone handles
Thanks for the inspiration!
I love rocks !!! I'm excited to see what you do.
It will be great to see what you come up with. Can’t wait.
I can't wait to see what you create.
I can't wait to see what you do with stone. Im very excited.
Such beautiful stones!
The passion and creativity you emit is very inspiring!
Can't wait for the results, bet they are going to be amazing as always
I cannot wait to see you craft these pieces into beautiful works of art
Glad you enjoyed your trip to Arizona!
I love your mom, not camera shy at all and looks she's funny like you xD
That's a new rabbit hole you've gone into! Can't imagine how you resisted buying almost everything you saw, but also can't imagine how many knives you'll handle with what you bought. You have your work cut out for you, that's for sure.
😮 wow ... This will be a journey and I'm going to enjoy watching every thing you make ...
I can't wait to see it all come together soon ..
Hoped you had fun in my hometown. Love your work. Thanks for taking us along.
The show is legend.
It's obvious that danger gave you more than the inspiration for a stone handle! I can see design inspiration in the inlay and quilions. Such a beautiful piece
I love that you treat bladesmithing as a family business. Very interesting rocks and minerals.
Looks like you had a great time checking out all that stone, looking forward to seeing what you make with it. You have a great Mum, she always takes such a keen interest in what her boys are doing and gets involved 👍. Nice family!! Regards from Down Under.
Looking forward to seeing the beautiful creations your sure to make with these materials! 😁
Guys! This video really effected me. Thank you! Not a day goes by that I don't miss my Mom. You boys are such an inspiration.
I’m excited to see what you do with your treasures. I know that you’re efforts will be jaw dropping.
Nice journey with family.
UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME!!! I WANT TO GO THERE SOOO BAD!!!! THE FOOD!!! The rocks were ok too.
Just take my breath away 😮
Can't wait to see how you would use the stuff you bought ❤
I look forward to (possibly) a knife build with stone handles. Realy cool.
My Dad was born in Missouri, I was born in Mesa, Arizona, glad you liked Arizona. It is a very geographically diverse state.
Wow. This will be interesting
damn those all look so beautiful
Petrified wood could be so cool and ultra unique. So many cool choices. You were like a kid in a candy store. Mom's deserve all the credit for everything they do. Shout out to all the under appreciated moms.
Can’t wait to see your journey as it’s something I’d love to do one day as well.
👍 top quality weiwing as usual. I love this channel !! Thank you.
God bless 🙏
The whole Royer family has the exact same smile. It's easy to see you got it from mom there. :)
I'm eagerly awaiting your stone project.
Can't wait to see these on a finished knife or sword.
I really hope you gain a lot of subscribers because you probably are the best knife maker I’ve seen on RUclips. And video quality is also up to par with people that have millions of subscribers. Truly great work. I watch every episode you make and I’m always astonished at the work you produce hopefully I can afford a knife from you soon
It will be nice to see these stones used as epic knife handles.
Men, I am really excited to see what you are going to do with these stones!
While others are cheaping using resins you are out there getting the good stuff. I’m excited to see your new projects.
I love the Charolite stone, purples my favorite color and its also my birth stone color. This knive is going to be insane looking when you're done. But of course it will from a blade smith master like yourself. Have a nice day Royer family.
Focus Kyle! Focus Kyle! Oh look at the pretty birds ! 😆 awesome man
Rocks and gemstones are like an emotion. Telling a story of who you are.
Pick the stone who you are making the knife for.
dude awesome. i'm a Tucsonan and its an amazing town. glad you got to see it and especially the gem and mineral show. every year its a big deal for us. hope you got to eat at el charro
I can't wait to see what you make with these.
I just got labradorite counters in my kitchen, my absolute favorite stone of all time, the fire in it is just so gorgeous!
I love this wholesome channel 😊
Hello from Finland.
i am a new sub btw , just found your channel yesterday your work is amazing ! you are a true artist ,i can not wait to see the end result .
A stone handled knife sounds really cool :O
Have you considered doing something with transparent aluminum at some point? I think it would be really interesting to see some aluminum damascus where parts of it are transparent, if that is even possible.
Can't wait to see how the knife turns out.
Not so sure that can be done as the "Transparent aluminum" is powdered and pressed into a mould for shape. Then it's heated and I'm not sure if it's under pressure, though I imagine the oxygen is removed so there isn't any oxidation.
transparent aluminum isnt actually a metal, its a crystal, a form of spinel
Never realized you guys where that close to me love the work you guys do shout out for Pittsburg Kansas
I'm from BC and was surprised to see they had BC jade down there, I wish you good fortune on your projects.
I can’t wait to see what you do with the lapis lazuli
I was way too happy to watch him catch the jade bug, ONE OF US, ONE OF US.
I know a lot about minerals. I traveled 4 years around the US finding, buying, and selling. I can tell you many that would work great for scales/handles.
7:06 I can't get distra...ooo look at these birds...🤣🤣🤣
Looking forward to watch you work on stone materials. Lived in China for 17 years and traveled a lot in countries like Myanmar have seen many many knifes with a jade handle. Know yours will be amazing too.
Those are some gorgeous rocks you have there! I'll be looking forward to see whan you can do with them. Also, I know from experience that jade is a very hard stone. Takes ages to polish.
For the decorative tang idea you could carve a roses and thorn vine design and inlay it with gold.
Thats super cool you brought your mom. I brought my dad to BladeShow 2022, and oddly we ran into you at the Art Knife booth.
I have marble I could send you, love your videos always an inspiration to watch how much you love the craft and dedicate yourself to it's perfection
Love it! I'm in Tucson and the Gem and Mineral Show is so cool to go to. Let us know next time you're coming in and it's easy to give you a tour of the best places to go AND the best places to eat!! :)
I have one with fossilized mammoth tooth handle. I love it.
That quarts though! I would make a Quillon dagger or a parry dagger make the handle out of the quarts. Awesome finds at the show.
I live in Tucson!! I wish I would have known that you were here. I would have loved to meet you! I love your channel and your knives!
Jade is similar in composition and structure to Asbestos. Fibrous structure. Make sure you wear a respirator when you carve that!
That being said, can't wait to see the results!
what an awesome video, from the family shots to the show it was really fun watching you look through the mountains of stuff for suitable materials.
Stone as a handle is a cool concept, full stone knife when?
Thanx Kyle 👍👍
Man, it's a personal dream of mine to go to the Tuscon Gem and Mineral show, but I fear that I would spend WAY too much money there. I went to an estate auction a few years ago and came away with an incredible box of rocks and minerals for about 250 dollars. It had a purple fluorite octahedron that's about 3 inches from tip-to-tip, as well as a couple smaller ones (not quite an inch wide - one's pink, the other clear), some positively massive garnets (a couple of 1.5 inch almandines and a 0.5 inch gemmy pyrope), a 2 inch barite rose (from Oklahoma, obviously), an inch-long watermelon tourmaline, a 2.5 inch hand sample of blue celestite crystals, a 5 inch tall, chunky quartz termination...and much more. So, for a mineral lover like me, the Tuscon show would be extremely dangerous.
Labradorite is one of my favourite minerals, btw. I made sure that when my parents were looking for a stone countertop for their kitchen, they gave serious consideration to (and ultimately purchased) a couple of slabs that were just riddled with 1 to 3 inch pieces of it (I'd say the countertop is more than half Labradorite), displaying that characteristic blue flash in an otherwise fairly dark (almost black-looking) matrix. It looks amazing (they thought so too, otherwise they'd have bought something else!). I'd love to go up to Labrador myself some day and find some type specimens of the stuff (as a Canadian, I generally forget that Labrador even exists most of the time, as people just refer to our 10th and final province as "Newfoundland" without giving it its proper name "Newfoundland and Labrador"). I'd have to plan the trip for like...late September though, to avoid mosquito and black fly season.
Oh, and you should note that jade actually refers to two separate minerals (I'm sure your book goes into a lot of detail on this) - jadeite and nephrite. The Guatemala (and Burmese) jade is jadeite; the British Columbia and Wyoming (Edwards) jade is all nephrite. The minerals may share a common name, but they are actually quite different (jadeite is a pyroxene, with a Moh's hardness of 6.5 to 7.0, while nephrite is an amphibole, with a hardness of 6.0 to 6.5), and so you shouldn't expect them to behave the same when working them. And just a safety note - whenever you are cutting, shaping or polishing silicate minerals, wear a mask rated for fine particulates, otherwise you can permanently screw up your lungs.
There are a few rock shops in town also. Also a few lapidary shops down the street from me.
Desert museum has high end pieces.
Upping your game here, i've worked with stone before and it is both incredibly rewarding and absolutely frustrating lol.
I'd start "safe" with a part of one of the larger slabs you have, so mistakes wont cause that you sacrificed a stone you only have enough of for one handle.
I know you're a patient man, and that will work in your favor when working stone, rushing will lead to failure, so take it slow and methodical :)
Lastly, i LOVE the idea of stone handles, but making them is an art on it's own, yet.. i am sure you got what it takes to do it! good luck and more importantly, have fun learning a new skill :D
If you ever decide to try obsidian, I have an extremely rare variety that is loaded with silver needles and is very chatoyant when cut and polished. I'm an old Rockhound and Gem miner with some fairly cool materials.
I'm glad you took a liking to the jade. Also good taste, wyoming sages and black is yummy! Jade is hard to work and carve but should make the best handle material because it's the toughest and most fracture resistant type of stone on earth.
Hello Kyle. I love your work. You truly are gifted, and obviously a patient person. I watched your stone handle episode earlier today. You mentioned that someday you'd like to find some white marble to work with. You may have never thought to look there but you can get Carrera marble even at the big box stores. I don't know exactly where you're located, but I looked up a Lowe's in Springfield. They have a Carrera marble threshold piece 9/16" thick x 4" wide x 36" long for $25. Plenty of places have it. I do general construction, and have used Carrera in many bathrooms and kitchens. If it's not as white as you want, heat it up (I've used a torch- sample piece first) and it gets bright white. Keep up the great work.
Subscribed, finally 😊
You should definitely look into rocks from Michigan. More specifically, the Petoskey stone and Coral Fossil Hexagonaria.
I think you could do some amazing things with those!
"Scored some beautiful, beautiful rocks..."
"THEY'RE MINERALS, MARIE!"
That hotel convention was insane, I've never seen anything like that.
My dad's a geologist, he has a lot of rocks and minerals on shelves. The lapis lazuli is in a glass cylinder to prevent it reacting with the air, I remember being told it would change colour or fade. Just thought it's something you may want to keep in mind
The Jade will be a challenge and you will want to use diamond tools for that. The Lapis is much softer and will cut/form quickly. The Charoite is fibrous and is also soft like the Lapis. And yes, on day 1 you spent some serious $$$$. Labradorite is also on the soft side. When it's striped like yours, I heard it called Tiger Stripe Labradorite. There is a mountain in Oregon where you can pick up as much Obsidian as you can carry. Glass Buttes. Obsidian will be a good one to start with as it's hardness is between the others. Also, if you're not happy with the clarity of the Quartz, you can look into Optical Quartz. They take natural Quartz and melt it down, then let it recrystallize back into blocks of perfectly clear Quartz. Optical Quartz can also be knapped like Obsidian unlike natural Quartz. I look forward to checking out more of your videos.
WOW, awesome to see some behind the scenes content ! The show seems absolutely amazing, the lapislazuli might make a real cool bowie handle and the jade is absolutely gorgeous too 😍😍
I wonder whats the book at the end ? It looks interesting :)
Good Old Mesa Gateway! Allegiant really is the cheapest way to travel!
It'll be interesting to see how you work with it.
La beauté de toutes ces pierres laisse rêveur ! Nul doute qu un manche de couteau en acier damas ne manquerai pas de être exceptionnel ( même en acier trempé ) peut importe la nature de la pierre. J'ai hâte de voir le résultat une que tu l aura travaillé. Bonne continuation 😉👍
Stuck between a Rock and a Blade? ;-) great trip guys, looks like a lot of fun and I'm sure there will be some intense work ahead !!!
this video rocks...
Cool how they used the hotel rooms.
As a event manager at a large resort in the past we have used hotel rooms in many capacities but never like this.
One more thing, when shopping for Lapis always carry a small bottle of nail polish remover and a small cloth. A lot of the material is dyed and the dye only goes a short way into the rough stone. Just dampen the cloth and rub the stone, if it comes away blue find another dealer
This should be super cool, I've watched a number of both amateur and more professional knife making channels in the past but I don't think I've ever seen a stone handle or at least not gone into in much detail (usually the handle scales are brushed over in knife making videos I've watched).
A faceted synthetic gemstone handle would be interesting. Bonus that you should be able to find rectangular billets of flawless material.
That ruby would make great handles