This is the little damascus utility I made at Volker´s smithy. It´s made from Zwissler seven-bar damascus, tank cannon, tank bearing and 1.2842. Blade is 9,5 cm long. The handle is made out of some wood Viktor gave to me: 250 year old oak that lay submerged in rusty water in an abandoned iron mine. It is hard as metal (you can carve fir wood with it...;-)), polishes like a cinch and I love the red colour it shows.
Top is the Kopis I made in the Industriemueum smithy on Sunday, polished and with the bolster fitted.
Etching detail of the damascus pattern. Yap, those ARE slag marks in there, and YAP, I am NOT proud of it;-). I look forward to the knife nonetheless. I think I will fit a handle of the red bog oak Viktor gave to me and do some knotwork carving or spiral patterns on it... but we will see...
Some time ago I took out the old sewing kit. I had this felted wool cloth lying around not doing anything for ages, and I wanted to save i...
I had some HSS steel (DMo5) lying around, pre-hardened to 64HRC and gave it a go to make some carving knives from it. Now you often hear t...
You all have read my post about the Knifemaker´s Fair in Solingen Klingenmuseum which...
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The other day I came across some wild bamboo that is invasive to Germany, so out came the pocket knife. I sawed off a section, carved off...
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This is a part of my collection of pocket knives. (Top to bottom: Otter "Notschlachter", 1.4110 100 mm blade, á virole lockback...