Bowie Knives WIP

[Samurai Stu]

Here are the rough forged blades after the normalising process


Now ground and ready for hardening.


Polished and etched/blacked.


With their respective handle materials. The two etched blades will have hippo and nickel silver handles. The black bowie will have a blackwood handle with stst fittings


Each of these bowies has a blade of 330mm plus another 130mm for handles. They are quite large.

[harm]

nice line-up there,Stu.i like big ladys as well :-}
keep the pics coming.

[Captain Hook]

how did you achive the bluing affect? Is it actually gunbluing or like a birchwood case product?

[Samurai Stu]

Pieces ready for assembly


Handle fitted ready to be screwed.....lol


Test fit


Glued and ready for grinding.

[Dinat]

Stu, the knives will look awesome, I really like the etched blades.

[Scuba Steve]

what would you charge for a Kukri type knife?

[harm]

why does your glue look like jizz?or do you really put a bit of yourself into every blade?wait,you screwed the handle. :-}
sorry bro,just messing with you.

[thesayin]

what would you charge for a Kukri type knife?

+1 A kukri with a hamon would be sweet

[Samurai Stu]

why does your glue look like jizz?or do you really put a bit of yourself into every blade?wait,you screwed the handle. :-}
sorry bro,just messing with you.

Lol.

[Samurai Stu]

Sizing up the teeth.



After some stressful drilling I managed to get neat holes that fit the tangs well.



Guard filed and fitted. Also some pre shaping done. The guard will get hot and the tooth could crack if shaped when its all glued together first.



Back of the guard. Tapering of the quillions also done.

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Final fit of guard



Checking surfaces are flat on handle



Dry Fit



Pre shaping the handle. Comparison with other piece.