Monthly Archives: April 2008

Engraving designs

A small update to the knife you saw made on video Making hidden tang knife. Now I’ve almost completed the engraving designs for it. They are almost completed, because even after improving and redrawing parts of the designs I see places that can be improved. I probably will do one more round of redrawing them.

To give you a little perspective of the time it requires to design something like this. The front bolster design took about 12hrs and rear about 4hrs. Probably need couple of hours more to improve them. Soon, very soon I can start engraving!

Front bolster:

Knife engraving design

Rear bolster:

Engraving design for rear bolster
Can you spot the problematic areas that still need improvement?

Just to remind how the victim knife looks like:

Handmade knife with sheath

Blog anniversary and knife making video

I’m little late for the 1st anniversary, it was on 3rd of April, but congrats anyway to… me! This year there has been 21,024 visits to this blog and best day was the first day, when it went up on reddit and digg – 3,025 visitors. Currently the average views per day is around 100, peaking at around 170. I think I’m pleased.

Big kudos to my friend Peeter, who suggested that this might be an interesting thing to blog about. “Thing” is of course how to change your life and follow your dream. It didn’t work out so fast as I wanted, as I had to go back to regular office work to keep my skin warm. But the pursuing is still going on and I learn new stuff about knives and engraving all the time. Fortunately there’s still very-very much to go.

Now the interesting part. I made a video of how we make hidden tang knife and a sheath for it.

Knife itself looks like this:

Handmade knife with sheath

HD video from Vimeo is available from Making hidden tang knife video

Non-HD:

Right now I have engraving video in making and soon I hope to make also a short vid of how we make a blade. Later maybe damascus making, stabilizing wood etc.

Enjoy!