Gudy Van Poppel

[Blastmaster1972]

J'ai achete mon 5ieme pliant "de serie" :



De gauche a droite: bois de noyer, mammouth, desert ironwood, mammouth, bruyere

[Vulpes]

Niveau batonnage, t'as testé?

[jlg]

De gauche a droite: bois de noyer, mammouth, desert ironwood, mammouth, bruyere

Et pour les lames ?

[kurios]

Damas, damas, damas, damas et enfin, damas!

[jlg]

[jlg]

Le deux et le trois, ça ressemble à du cable

[Blastmaster1972]

Le deux et le trois, ça ressemble à du cable

C'est pas du cable. Je connais pas les mots Français pour expliquer, mais ce sont tous des damas fait par Gudy.

Un autre nouveaute:

My friend Gudy Van Poppel (dutch knifemaker) made a new piece of "sharp art". Now don't get me wrong, I call it "art", but it is a fully functional knife! The knife is not mine, the pics are made by Gudy.

Explosion Damascus (75NI8 + O2), Sambar Stag handle with bronze spacers, length 36cm, bladelength 24cm, blade thickness 7mm.

Enjoy the pics!

Kind regards,

Jos

[Blastmaster1972]

Mon nouveau jouet:

I got a new toy I gotta show you guys! (wel actually I won't have it 'till saturday... )

Made for me by my friend, Dutch knifemaker Gudy Van Poppel.

His explanation:

Finished a commision, with lots of blood sweat and tears!
Long have I thought about how to make a Viking axe, the way they made it back then. Normally this type of forged axes is from low carbon steel, with a high carbon insert for the cutting edge. That can be done. But I wanted to make it from damascus steel, and that's a different matter! I made a billet of 5 bands of torsion damscus, kind of like a Viking pattern. Then I forged the axe, made the "eye", and forged it around a conical thorn. That was a hell of a job. After that it was forged to shape, the cutting edge was ground open, folded open, and a 400 layer damascus cutting edge was inserted and forged in.
The handle was made from a beam of "Tigermaple", and this was no easy feat as well!
But it was fun to make, and I know it will get a good home!

(I hope I translated the technical stuff correctly!)

Specs: Cutting edge 14cm. length from handle to cutting edge 19cm. Handle length 90cm. Weight of the axehead approx 460 grams.

Enjoy the pics! (pics by Gudy)









Kind regards,

Jos

[Fatboy59]

superbe

[cassca]

soudure en "gueule de loup " ? c'est ca ?
superbe travail ….

[David88]

salut

petite question à 10 balles
Le système à piston des pliants, c'est celui de Ron Lake (PAL) ???

[David88]

alors alors ?????
personne n'a jamais sieuté (moi le premier .. )

il est ou le spécialiste Poppel ??

[Blastmaster1972]

salut

petite question à 10 balles
Le système à piston des pliants, c'est celui de Ron Lake (PAL) ???

Non.

C'est un "liner-lock". Le "piston" sert a débrayer le "liner lock". (est ce que c'est le mot correcte? Débrayer?)

[David88]

salut
merci pour ta réponse !

[thom]

Quel travail.