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Making an integral criollo - O1 and Antelope - Lots of pics
Grinding the blade.
Heat treating it. (Not this exact blade, as I didn't have anyone to take a picture and I needed both hands) After HT with some cleaning of the working area. Making a groove for securing the handle. Finishing it. Sanding the blade. Almost finished blade. __________________ Ruben How to Order a BBQ Knife! http://www.calocustomknives.com/docs/bbqknife.htm |
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Views of the groove.
Antelope horn. Boiling it on water and vonager to soften it and be able to press it and get rid of some of the curves of it. Pressing it. Sanding it. Roughly sanded, yet not polished. A little bit more sanding. Not yet polished. You can check out how it was flattened for a better grip without loosing the patterns of the horn. __________________ Ruben How to Order a BBQ Knife! http://www.calocustomknives.com/docs/bbqknife.htm |
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This was the original horn shape.
The first piece isn't sanded, the second one (the handle) it is sanded, and the third one, the tip, was sanded and polished to look all 3 stages. That is how the finished handle will look like. Marking a sterling silver sheet for the buttcap piece. Cutting it. Cutted piece. Testing it. Marking on the same sheet to cut the end part for the buttcap piece. Cutting it (I broke the saw as you can see) Welding both pieces together. Putting the handle together. Thanks for looking! Ruben __________________ Ruben How to Order a BBQ Knife! http://www.calocustomknives.com/docs/bbqknife.htm |
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Hi Ruben,
thanks for your photo. Riccardo |
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Very interesting. I can't wait to see it completed.
__________________ Andy Garrett https://www.facebook.com/GarrettKnives?ref=hl Charter Member - Kansas Custom Knifemaker's Association www.kansasknives.org "Drawing your knife from its sheath and using it in the presence of others should be an event complete with oos, ahhs, and questions." |
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Very nice, thanks for sharing.
__________________ Curtis Wilson Wilson's Custom Knives, Engraving, and Scrimshaw |
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Thanks for taking the time to snap a few photos as you work. We newbies really appreciate the photo tutorials on how to make knives. I don't know about the rest of the makers here but I like looking in the background of each picture to see the shop and tools laying around. Helps me to visualize how I want to set-up my shop. My only suggestion would be to not leave out any process. The handle looks like it was coated in the last picture but you didn't show us how you did that. It's the small things that mean so very much.
thanks again for sharing the process with us. In His Service, Reid Allen |
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Reid,
I apreciate your observation, indeed sometimes I skip some steps without realizing it, as most of the time I work alone and nor only is hard to get pictures while posing for the picture, but sometimes I just forget about it, as I?m busy working on the knife. Some works like this one are complicated and require a lot of concentration on my part. I?ll post pictures of the finished knife and making of the sheath (in leather and sterling silver) soon! Thank you __________________ Ruben How to Order a BBQ Knife! http://www.calocustomknives.com/docs/bbqknife.htm |
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Ruben
Congratulations. A new one beautiful work. Can you give more details about your method to soften the horn? Works to a bufalo horn to? Abra?os. Alessandro Andreotti |
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One step I would like to see is how you get the metal ferrule round and centered so well on the blade. Thanks for sharing.
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Ruben __________________ Ruben How to Order a BBQ Knife! http://www.calocustomknives.com/docs/bbqknife.htm |
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