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Jan 11, 2016 10:38:32 GMT -7 @adrian65 said:
Hello, friends!A few days ago an idea popped into my mind: to build ... guess what? Another knife.
This time, my plan was to make a knife in the ancient Greek style.
Searching the internet, I chose the "Kopis" knife. My inspiring photos were the following two ones:
While searching about this type of knife, I noticed that some of the handles have the rear end shaped as an animal head: goose, dog or horse. I decided to choose the horse so I drew the following template:
As you see, the handle is more complex and it's going to have three bolsters instead of the usual two ones. I plan to fill the space between the bolsters with pet wood from Lesvos Island and maybe also with some olive wood I have from there.
I transfered the pattern on the stainless steel sheet (5 mm thick):
Then I gross cut the shape, using a small angle grinder; Ina was brave enough to sit there and fix the knife while I did the cutting.
Then, with some drilling, some grinding and a lot of file work, I brought the knife close to its final contour, as you see here:
The overall length of the knife is 40 cm and the blade length is 23 cm.
That would be all for the moment, I will post pictures during the progress.
Thank you for looking,
Adrian