Subhilt par Lucas Burnley

[Moonlight]

ça vous tente de voir ça?

[Crocuta]

HAÏ!

[polebleu]

fais peter

[Moonlight]

gni?

[Crocuta]

Voui, ça nous zintéresse, fais péter les photos, rouya

[polebleu]

sakeutdein comme on dit dans le ch'nord

[Moonlight]

My reference lines are layed out now I just have to mark the edge and I can get grinding.



Laying out the edge,




Here I'm taking the edge down to the scribed lines, in preparation for grinding the bevel's







I ground the top edge on an 8 inch wheel, and will do the bottom on the 12 inch in the picture. Halfway there



I love this wheel, it's one of Berties from SA I heard that they are not being made anymore, anybody know for sure?




I think I'm going to taper the tang on this as well, once that is done I can move on to the hard stuff. I've never fit a guard from the front so I'll probably have to go pretty slow with my coachwork.
I've got some neat stuff planned for this one, but I want to get all the major components made so I can plan my time for any embellishments a little more accurately.

[stancaiman]

c'est un yam 650 XS derrière ?

[Moonlight]

Here is my temporary machining center..



getting my vise set up, this mill is a real beast I tell ya, that vise weighs at least two pounds.



After I saw Allan's new Voodoo that that he obviously had custom made, I decided that I really needed to step it up, luckily I got a box from Spencer this Am, with just the ticket, I threw in my voodoo priest ear tusks and got to work.…



What? it's hot you say? I hadn't noticed..



Not wanting to go to hard on Allen I decided to do a little mill work.
The only brass guard stock I had was .5 so I took it down to .350
I'll probably end up at around .325 but I wanted to leave a little room for clean up.


Ooop's...Tee..hee...I just can't seem to help myself.….



After I got my guard stock down to size I rough cut it out on the band saw.



The blade in it's current state with the guard blanks.



An then back to the mill to true up the edges...



Spot drilling my hole locations.



Hey nice shot voodoo doll Allen.



I realized yesterday that I was out of brass Corby bolts and had to borrow a few from a friend, I did'nt have the right size pilot for my counterbore so I decided to chuck a larger size up in my JK lathe and turn it down. Gotta love a lathe with a grinding attachment.…



I'm getting ready to flatten the blade, and taper the tang, after that I will start working on the guard fitting.

[bulbo]

Trop facile, moi aussi si j'avais mon bras droit fait par PH je ferais de super truc comme ça

[Moonlight]

The steel came slightly over size so I took it over to the surface grinder and brought it down to .187



I couldn't find my radius guide so I made one out of a piece of scrap brass. In this pic the shoulders for the guard have already been filed in and I'm getting ready to radius the spine.





Draw filing the spine.
I went pretty slow through this part to make sure I got it right, I'm really happy with the way it turned out. I definitely have a new found respect for the fellas who fit the majority of their guards in in this fashion, I was walking on egg shells the whole time.
As I filed I kept marking the spine with layout fluid to see where I was removing the most metal, about halfway through I had a serious DUH.. moment and realized that if I scraped the spine with my guide, I could see the high spots.



Once the filing was done I shoeshined both sides up to 400g.




Here's the end result, we'll see how well it worked tomorrow, when I get my guards slotted.



After that I decide to start tapering the tang.
Just like on the blade I grind a small bevel to let me know how far to grind in.



And then I work my way up towards the guard.


I only grind the hollows before heat treat, afterwords I will go to the flat platen and bring it all in. I find I get a lot less warping that way.
I grind just shy of my reference lines, so it's easier to keep centered.



Counter sinking all the holes.

[Moonlight]

pour faire des beaux couteaux, il faut vivre ce métier à plein temps

[Moonlight]

I really wanted to get my guards fit up, so that was where I started.



This is my super custom NDRO, this thing will hold like a 16th no problem



My High PSI chip relocator system came in handy today.



One down, feelin good now.



Time get started on the slot for the sub hilt,



Filing in the radius, I had fun on this one and it went pretty quick.



Drilling the hole for my pins.



Glamor shot.. OooH Rugged.

[Moonlight]

I started rough shaping the guards this afternoon,



Begining the radius on the inside of the guards, I got stuck here for a while and alsmost had a pretty bad screw up..



I'm running pretty short on time now, but like I said earlier in the thread I want to build something awesome or crash and burn.. After all it's not everday somebody gets to build off against Allen right?



So I started hand fullering the blade.
As long as I can get the blade into heat treat today I should have enough time..



I have one side pretty much done, I'm going to get the other side roughed in and then clean them both up so that I can keep them as simetrical from sise to side as possible..


It's finally starting to look like a knife now..

[Moonlight]

Top side of the fuller,



Choil area,



Side view of the completed texturing.. After heat treat I'll bring the grinds all the way to the fuller.




Finally ready for Heat treat,



I knew I should have kept the instructions...



Just kidding, Here we go. Photogenic fellas aint we!




Back to the shop, the knife is in the oven as we speak, and I'm startin in on the leather.


Started out this moring by milling my handle inserts.


Drilling the holes for the pins.
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Daily time stamp.



Tapering the tang, this was kind of tricky,



The finished tang,



Due to the tapered tang the scales needed a to have a beveled front edge of 1deg. It doesn't sound like much but it makes a big difference.



Drilling the scales,



Right in the middle of a hole I heard a "CLINK" in my drill press?
Took apart return spring housing and found that a piece of a spring had broken and jammed inside the downfeed …





Heating a section of spring to re-bend the catch.



The temporarily repaired spring and the offending section.
Took me off the knife for about 30 minutes.



Got the rest of the holes drilled and started roughing out the scales.



I finally have all my handle pieces made..



I have to try and go find some Muriatic Acid for the etch, I'm hoping that I can get it at Home Depot, no one else has had it.
When I get back I'll finish grind the blade and start the assembly process