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This one started as a dagger but kept morphing untill this came out. As always, Nicholson file was used, overall length is 6.125" with a 2.5" blade. Stand is a piece of driftwood with a file "cross". Hope you guys like it:)
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No. 211 File Knife
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 12:22 PM
Hi guys, another file knife is done This one started as a dagger but kept morphing untill this came out. As always, Nicholson file was used, overall length is 6.125" with a 2.5" blade. Stand is a piece of driftwood with a file "cross". Hope you guys like it:)
This one started as a dagger but kept morphing untill this came out. As always, Nicholson file was used, overall length is 6.125" with a 2.5" blade. Stand is a piece of driftwood with a file "cross". Hope you guys like it:)
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 12:47 PM
that is awesome. i love the file texture on the ridgeline. you nailed a really tricky grind there, and it walks a fine line between brutal and elegant. nice,
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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 01:16 PM
lol Jake, the grind originally was supposed to start 3/4" closer to the tip of the blade, grinding a recurve turns out to be a big headache. I have some major respect for anyone doing recurves!
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 04:58 PM
jake cleland, on 31 July 2010 - 01:47 PM, said:
it walks a fine line between brutal and elegant.
-Ditto to that, Jake!
Serge, that's freakin' gorgeous!
-Todd
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Roman Landis, Ashokan 2009
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Posted 01 August 2010 - 04:31 PM
Very cool. I like the raised point a lot. Looks a bit "shark" like. Been watching the Discovery channel? LOL.
So, did you come across a huge cache of old files, or are you buying new ones for these blades?
==Dave
So, did you come across a huge cache of old files, or are you buying new ones for these blades?
==Dave
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly." -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Posted 01 August 2010 - 07:05 PM
Thanks Dave. Theres this old guy at the flea market who sells old tools, well he has a pile of files, probably several thousand that I picked through and bought all the Nicholsons he had. I still have around 80-100 files left
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