Over two years now, it still isn't fully there but it is bloody close.
The attached photos were numbers three, four and five of nine versions made to date over a period stretching back over that lengthy period, pandemic happenings didn't help the timespan at all, that all seemed to kick off just as this project did, also though there has been a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes, getting all into place, for if and for when, it all took a great deal of time to get right.
Two you see here get a Valkyrie Rifles Cerakote finish, I forget the funky names of the colours but the coatings of grey and black speak for themselves, the third a satin steel, trying to visualise a 'ceremonial' option, trial engraving on there too, that got scrapped.
Different grinds for perusal, serrates or not, tubes were used as fixings at this point, they were later scrapped in favour of screws.
You'll see the middle tube missing on the satin finished knife in the first photo but then added later, there was a plan for that middle orifice on the ceremonial knife, that was then brought to life on numbers six and seven though.
All the knives were hand-made at this point, fully, a lot of work and effort.
The attached photos were numbers three, four and five of nine versions made to date over a period stretching back over that lengthy period, pandemic happenings didn't help the timespan at all, that all seemed to kick off just as this project did, also though there has been a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes, getting all into place, for if and for when, it all took a great deal of time to get right.
Two you see here get a Valkyrie Rifles Cerakote finish, I forget the funky names of the colours but the coatings of grey and black speak for themselves, the third a satin steel, trying to visualise a 'ceremonial' option, trial engraving on there too, that got scrapped.
Different grinds for perusal, serrates or not, tubes were used as fixings at this point, they were later scrapped in favour of screws.
You'll see the middle tube missing on the satin finished knife in the first photo but then added later, there was a plan for that middle orifice on the ceremonial knife, that was then brought to life on numbers six and seven though.
All the knives were hand-made at this point, fully, a lot of work and effort.
