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Sounds a great idea, pointy sharp things are lovely to look at
Stuart are you planning putting some life into those blanks
Dunno mate to be honest, I just dropped them off with a mate of mine who is going to rumble them overnight which should take all that corrosion off, I'll see what tomorrow brings.
Don't know 100% but another maker told me it was sale of illegal items . Its so easy to get shut down today. However its likely hard to justify the time and effort if your not drawing something from a forum as the owner/ owners
Not seen it bearing in mind ! However aluminium oxide paper grouse enough to bite in with a solid backer and working down in small steps grade wise to the finish you desire will remove scratches . Problems are
1 . Cutting yourself sanding
2. Keeping the edges / transitions sharp and not blending them
Be careful put the blade on a plank and clamp it down , leaving the tip back on the board ( one slip otherwise can be a big Bowie knife in the chest )
Would you have a peak if I send to you as a repair please?
Send me pictures bowlandfabrications@gmail.com
Time is of course our most valuable comodity and these things soon get spendy when your buying it . Perhaps the fella offering sharpening could help ?
Ok thanks will send you some pics when I get back home, couple of days or so.
I just had a look at your website, nice work
Longstrider.
Well I tend to do my own thing, if I don't like it I tend towards not making it ! Must say you have the Instagram thing worked out , I do total pants with it .I just had a look at your website, nice work
Good to see an other maker who doesn't just make a worse version of someone's else design for a change
Yes, made by us many years ago for fella who lived and worked on the Chatsworth estate, he was a bit of a wheeler dealer and sold a few of our Pat Mitchell knives, he then went on to design his own small range, which we branded for him as Mitchell Monarch.
Those heads were amazing things, we had a full range of them at the time, as well as the boar there was, from memory, an eagle, peregrine, wolf, bear, and others that I cannot recall, we had the African Big 5 too. The concept of using these as pommels might sound a little Franklin Mint to anyone reading this, they were quality things though, very impressive.
There was talk of the British Blades Anniversary Knife a little earlier, I didn't want to give it it's own thread so here a few photos and a bit of info, photos are very poor as they are actually photos of screen shots 
When the project was first mooted Martyn (of BB) saw the knife as a whittle tang, or through tang as our US cousins like to call them, I made a prototype of such a knife but getting the hole, which had to be rectangular and circular, through a lump of G10 was problematic, I explored having the blocks made in two sections, machined and then glued together, the whole process was problematic and costly though so scale tang was chosen as the practical way to go.
The first scale tang version utilised hand made blanks, this is the version with the solid tang, then we though well if it is scale tang, with removable scales, why not cut out the tang which not only reduced weight but does also allow some degree of gear stashing beneath said scales, so version three got laser cut blanks, with the cut outs.
The screws were custom made so coins could be used to loosen and tighten, no specific tools required, rubberised liners were bonded to the G10 scales, acting as a water tight gasket, all was designed and made to fit a Spec Ops over the counter purchasable sheath, it was good to go.
When the project was first mooted Martyn (of BB) saw the knife as a whittle tang, or through tang as our US cousins like to call them, I made a prototype of such a knife but getting the hole, which had to be rectangular and circular, through a lump of G10 was problematic, I explored having the blocks made in two sections, machined and then glued together, the whole process was problematic and costly though so scale tang was chosen as the practical way to go.
The first scale tang version utilised hand made blanks, this is the version with the solid tang, then we though well if it is scale tang, with removable scales, why not cut out the tang which not only reduced weight but does also allow some degree of gear stashing beneath said scales, so version three got laser cut blanks, with the cut outs.
The screws were custom made so coins could be used to loosen and tighten, no specific tools required, rubberised liners were bonded to the G10 scales, acting as a water tight gasket, all was designed and made to fit a Spec Ops over the counter purchasable sheath, it was good to go.
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