A couple of pieces I've made during the pandemic

Quick snap. Will take a better picture later. My first go at forging metal.

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Blade is a piece of broken off suspension spring found on the road.
Thin brass bolster is a piece of old door kick plate.
Wood is purple heart that was trimmed off a chopping board. It was destined for the wood burner.
Leather is off cuts and failed knife sheaths.
The brass pommel is the only piece that isn’t scrap. I could have used scrap brass from an old Yale lock. I wanted to use threads tapped and died into the pommel and blade rather than a through pein.

I was aiming for something Scandinavian in style. I need to order some more leather before I can have a go at a Puukko style sheath. Needless to say, the wooden insert will be from a piece of wood salvaged from an old pallet.
 
Superb.

Time for a touchmark :)

Thanks. Looked on the Tube. Lots of intricate filing seems to be how it’s done. I will have a go in the coming weeks.

Tried a bit more forging this morning. Wowsers, that leaf spring is hard! I was almost pleased when I ran out of gas! I will measure the lengths of the two pieces and see how much (if at all) I have stretched them out.
 
I've had precious little time of late, so I've been itching to get going on this one. It has a deadline, less than a month.

Making Knives is kind of a therapy for me. Music on, and indulge for a few hours blocking out everything else. Other than hand sanding the damn things, it all requires 100% concentration all the time; one slip up, even for a second can wreck tens of hours of work, or, lose me a finger/eye/skin etc. With that in mind, the brief was for a UK legal slip joint; less than 3" blade, non-locking. What. Fresh. Hell. Is. This. Roughly 12 hours to this point with much of that being the fitup of the pivot area.

May I introduce you to the makings of '44'.

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The green stuff is 1.6mm brass plate with the protective plastic still on it :)
 

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