Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Hillbilly on July 28, 2008, 10:10:37 pm
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Here's a knife I made for Chris (Mechslasher). I started it a long time back, and finally got a chance to finish it up. The blade was knapped from a "boulder" of purple slag glass that I found at a rock shop, and the handle is spalted birdseye maple and purpleheart. The pics don't do the wood grain justice, the maple is a beautiful chunk of wood. I couldn't get the flake scars to show up good in the pics, either. Anyhow:
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Whoa :o! I don't know what your talking about Steve, I see flake scars everywhere - slick :)!! Cool contrast with the combo of woods in the handle too, fine lookin knife!
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thats pretty sweet looking. beautiful handle and the blade looks awesome- Ryan
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I saw this one in person this weekend and it's a beautiful piece of work! The wood grain was just beautiful. Nice work Steve!
Alan
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Good looking knife Hillbilly
Ron
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Thanks, guys.
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Man Steve! That is one sharp looking knife...literally! 8)
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I saw it this knife this weekend too and it is a work of art. Steve did a beautiful job with all of this knife...and Chris likes everything purple...and camo skirts. ;D Pat
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Beautiful knife Hillbilly,mighty fine job on that. :)
Pappy
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Nice Steve. Looks good even in the flesh so to speak. Like the purple heart. :-X BTW I started cutting that other piece of purple heart I had left into 3/8 sq. pieces for fore shafts, and MAN that stuff is hard. Changed the saw blade 22 times. ;D Just kidding.
Dick
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Thanks again, fellers. Dick, that purpleheart should look just a wee bit familiar. ;D The main trouble I've had with it is keeping it from burning/glazing brown if you work it with power tools.
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That's a beautiful knife, the wood grain on the maple is sweet! ;)
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Great knife Steve, I've never heard of spalted birdseye before and I live in birdseye central. Either way its wbeautiful wood :)
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Great looking knife Steve. I love all the color. Justin
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that is sooo Pretty :)
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Thanks again, guys, (and gal ;D) Dana, that wood came from a small half-dead red maple I cut that had burls growing all over the lower trunk. It's not all birds-eye, but there's a lot of areas of birds-eye pattern scattered throughout the wood.
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I loves me some purple heart. ;)
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Steve whatever ya call it its extremely nice wood, my boss sold 9 birdseye veneer logs last year for $10,000
sickening eh :o
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Awesome job Hillbilly. That's artistic in every way.
Tracy
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NICE WORK..your chipping is great.john
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Great job Hillbilly... ;D
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Very Nice Steve. I've got a big chunk of red slag glass, maybe some blood wood for a handle. :-\
Mike
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Mike, the bloodwood would be appropriate, I usually lose some blood every time I knap glass. :)
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Steve, you did a great job on that one. Those flake scars look great and it look's like you pulled out some micro-tools for that edgework.
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Eddie, I got some dental tools too, believe it or not. ;D I just don't use 'em until the end of the process. :)
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Great looking knife.
R.C.
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Me too Steve. Bloodwood for blood work.
Mike
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Ditto as to what the others said. Absolutely awesome! And as for the wood grain, beautiful. And is it only me and my vivid imagination, or do you see a T-Rex with it's mouth open, and his little left arm hanging there? Honest, I just one little can of Miller Lite, with my balogna sandwhich......
Stick Bender
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thats retarded , Look how cool this knife is!!
man high 5 for sure!
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Steve, thats really pleasing to the eyes. very impressive!
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It should be illegal to look that good.
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Wow that's a piece of artwork. Absolutely beautiful.
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thanx for the knife hillbilly! i placed on my mantle in the living room and dared the wife to touch it. she eyed me for a second but she blinked first. pat's haten on my skirts like he's wanting one. having two more made in a different camo pattern. killed two hogs last weekend in my kilt with my flintlock.