Making a 4" fighter (mokume, micarta, san mai)

[ArielSalaverria]

Hey folks,

This is an order from a customer that's currently working overseas.

He already purchased a knife from me and wanted another knife, so I offered this finished blade I had here waiting for a handle. (4 3/4" length, San Mai made with stainless 304 and 1085 with a 52100 core)




He needed a fat drop point so I reground it to this:
(About 4 1/2" length, 4" cutting edge)




He also wanted flat and thin micarta handle in the same pattern as the upper part of the damascus, so I've made that using corn to draw the pattern.






Pretty cool, ah? (You can still see some corn grains there)




Pieces od micarta for the handle along with the blade.




And since he needed a guard to prevent his hand to slipper into the blade I've decided to use some 1010/1085/copper mokume I had, as the patterns were just screaming to be used here.





More later this week, thanks for looking!


Regards,

Ariel

[maddogfletcher]

Fudge!~!!!!!! I want one!!!!!! You are the bomb.
Jeff
Maddogknives USA

[Mike Turner]

Ariel,

That is outstanding can't wait to see it finished.

Mike

[Brett Holmes]

that look frigin sweeeeet. the micarta looks awesome, cant wait to see it assembled.
how did you make the micarta, im assuming that you sprinkled dry corn kernels and then placed a board on top and put it in a press. am i right?? were there corn kernels on the bottom, how much pressure do you put on it.
brett

[AndresCaponelli]

Amigo y compatriota Ariel:

Es la primera vez que escribo en este foro, y es para felicitarte por los estupendos trabajos que siempre mostras, y la dedicacion y docencia de mostrarnos un paso a paso de los mismos. Te cuento que he realizado varios cuchillos (soy solo un aficionado, te aclaro) con la micarta que nos ense?aste a fabricar en el foro de Argentina, que excelente material! Barato, facil de trabajar y extremadamente fuerte! muchas gracias!
Se te extra?a mucho en el foro de Armasblancas.
Un gran abrazo y felicitaciones.

Andres

PD: disculpen que no posteo la respuesta en ingles tambien, me falta un poco de practica con el idioma aun!

PS: excuseme not submit the reply in English also, I need a little of practice with the language!

[ArielSalaverria]

Thank you for the comments, guys!

More


Two micarta pieces, already hand carved for the exact shape of the blade's spine.






After gluing them together (either resin or cianoacrilate gel) press with a manual press to make just one piece out of them.




After it dries, I fill it with the same glue to later place the spine of the knife there.






After it begins to harden, I place it on a vise , making sure to use THICK leather pieces as not to damage the blade.




Now with the blade completely secured on the vise, I use a screw press (the carpenter type) to achieve a perfect fit with the guard and handle.




Once this dries up, I'll be ready to work on the shape of the guard and handle.


Thanks again for looking!


Regards,

Ariel

[praktis]

can´t wait to se the finished produkt.......
it looks great.

[Mike Turner]

Truly outstanding Ariel, I really like the way you do it as a tutorial. It really gets the blood going in the brain, this has put some new ideas in the ol' brain.

Thanks Mike

[Lepazini]

Ariel where do u live in Ar ? because i live in Iguassu, u hv a lot new ideas , i think u?r wizard i would like to see u working , visit me when u comes to missiones, we can make a nice knife , i just work with damascus too , i?ll wait for u contact, grats

L.Pazini

[ArielSalaverria]

L, I live in Buenos Aires
If I ever go to Misiones, I'll call you up! I'm trying to get to the Brazilian Knife Show next year.

Thanks again for the kind words, they encourage me to make more of these type of threads. I will be making a full size tutorial of this later this week.


Adding a mokume pin to make the handle even more secure (and to decorate it a little bit more)




Detailed view:




Finished knife














Regards,

Ariel

[Ice Tigre]

:::::
incredible! :eek

looking forward to the full tutorial....

Gary

[Ruben Calo]

Very very nice Ariel!!

Da la la linda impresion de ser indestructible!

[Sean O'Hare]

That's unbelievable!!! That homemade micarta is seriously cool! You are incredibly creative to say the least.

Thanks for the post.

Sean

[Drunkenduck]

Hurah! Fantastic blade.

Doug Lester

[ArielSalaverria]

Thanks,thanks friends.
regars