Put together a plan for mounting a knife blade on a home handle I'm making. I'm making it out Nordic materials like birch and moose skullbone and antler, because it's stuff that's near and dear to the guy I'm making it for. The blade is "just" ground out in a factory, but it's good steel and it looks cool. I'm eager to get started, but I'm missing a key tool, a table mounted belt and plate grinder. It's stuck in customs somewhere in eastern Europe or some such. Dang it, I want to grind out that antler right now.
Pretty big pic of the plan, so I put it in spoilers.
The thoughts behind the design were mostly about avoiding fingers slipping onto the blade. The moose skull bone at the very end is super dense and hard, so I'm hoping it'll see some action as a blunt tool for killing northern pikes, cause that's how my friend likes to kill his fish.
I bought one of @Typhoid Manny 's nail necklaces at the Shot of Ice and Fire bar crawl at Pax South.
I love it! It's very cool. Your craftsmanship is a credit to yourself and this community.
I also personalized it a bit.
I wrapped wire around the hilt and polished the blade with a dremel cloth polishing wheel. I used red rouge followed by white rouge. White rouge is ridiculous on steel.
Alright, so I got to the Bar Crawl really late, sadly, and it took longer than I thought it would to make my addition to the auction. I did manage to make it there, and they did manage to go up for auction though!
So here's pictures of my Stark wolves. The ones I brought were cleaned up cast from these masters and painted (sadly it was not my best paint job though :bigfrown: ).
The Direwolf of Lord Stark
I bought one of @Typhoid Manny 's nail necklaces at the Shot of Ice and Fire bar crawl at Pax South.
I love it! It's very cool. Your craftsmanship is a credit to yourself and this community.
I also personalized it a bit.
I wrapped wire around the hilt and polished the blade with a dremel cloth polishing wheel. I used red rouge followed by white rouge. White rouge is ridiculous on steel.
holy shit dude, that looks so good
also doing the wire wrap on the grip and crossing it over the quillions is an idea that i'm gonna steal for further versions!
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The really are gorgeous. I wore mine with the earrings all weekend.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
I bought one of @Typhoid Manny 's nail necklaces at the Shot of Ice and Fire bar crawl at Pax South.
I love it! It's very cool. Your craftsmanship is a credit to yourself and this community.
I also personalized it a bit.
I wrapped wire around the hilt and polished the blade with a dremel cloth polishing wheel. I used red rouge followed by white rouge. White rouge is ridiculous on steel.
holy shit dude, that looks so good
also doing the wire wrap on the grip and crossing it over the quillions is an idea that i'm gonna steal for further versions!
You did a great job on making it! I love the work you put into making it.
Polishing with rouge is something I picked up sort of out of self defense. Because I was the "composites repair guy" at our shop (aircraft structure) I had to take care of the composites tool box. Well, we're not supposed to use any tool oil on composites tools because they could contaminate the bonding process for fiberglass or graphite repairs. So, I would have to clean up 100+ bare metal tools every week. That meant a lot of rust or corrosion removal, and a lot of extra work.
One week I sat down and looked at my options. I couldn't add any substance to the tools, but I could try to limit the corrosion reaction. A rougher surface is going to corrode more than a smooth one because of increased surface area. So I took out all the tools and dies, sanded out and gouges or tool marks with 320 grit, then took them to the buffing wheel. I start with a few passes with Emery on the wheel, then Rouge, then White Rouge. The rouge is just a grit of sand held together with a wax, so it didn't leave any residue after you wiped it down with alcohol. Bars of it are also pretty cheap.
People would joke about how I would "Polish my tool", but after that first time I only had to repolish tools in my toolbox once a month. The rest of the time I could wipe it with a rag and be done. Now, I don't recommend it for everything, but White Rouge puts a high shine on metal, and if you smoothed it out before, you walk away with a mirror shine. Larger objects are a little harder to get a consistent surface on, but man it sure is pretty.
Steal my ideas all you want! I don't think there's anything I make or have made that I won't show someone else how to do. If someone makes something from that, then I'm all the happier for it!
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Were these tools custom made in-house? Is that why they weren't hard-chromed like pretty much every other steel hand tool?
Were these tools custom made in-house? Is that why they weren't hard-chromed like pretty much every other steel hand tool?
Our dies were pretty much all machined in-house. Some of the hand tools were old and had their coatings worn off by years of people being careless with taking care of them (trying to remove dried on resin with angle grinders, for instance), some had the coating removed or broken up from use (punches and hammers particularly), or were bought from the lowest bidder and didn't have especially good protection in the first place.
QA was/is also a pain in the arse so if there was any deformation like the end of a pin punch being deformed (mushroom headed from use), or the inspector claimed to see a spot of rust on it, it had to be sanded/ground. Which took off the protective coating, which we couldn't put back on, which ended up in there being more corrosion. It was the military, pointing out the flaw in that logic got me into enough trouble. A few years of that and most of the tools would lose their coating or the majority of their coating. In the case of our composites toolbox most of the tools hadn't been replaced in nearly a decade.
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Were these tools custom made in-house? Is that why they weren't hard-chromed like pretty much every other steel hand tool?
Our dies were pretty much all machined in-house. Some of the hand tools were old and had their coatings worn off by years of people being careless with taking care of them (trying to remove dried on resin with angle grinders, for instance), some had the coating removed or broken up from use (punches and hammers particularly), or were bought from the lowest bidder and didn't have especially good protection in the first place.
QA was/is also a pain in the arse so if there was any deformation like the end of a pin punch being deformed (mushroom headed from use), or the inspector claimed to see a spot of rust on it, it had to be sanded/ground. Which took off the protective coating, which we couldn't put back on, which ended up in there being more corrosion. It was the military, pointing out the flaw in that logic got me into enough trouble. A few years of that and most of the tools would lose their coating or the majority of their coating. In the case of our composites toolbox most of the tools hadn't been replaced in nearly a decade.
The coolest thing about this knife project I'm doing is that my dad gets to tell me all of his old stories and that I actually listen now. He was a mechanical engineer during the German Wirtschaftswunder. As a part of his education he spent years in workshops making his own tools. They'd hand out a plate of tool steel and expect a fully formed hacksaw to exists within the week. He still has that hacksaw. It is a goddamn jewel of German workmanship.
I've decided on the Orchid Thief shawlette pattern for my next project. It was one of the first patterns I earmarked, so I figure I should complete it one of these days.
Browsing patterns on Ravelry is dangerous. In trying to pick a project, I've added something like 20 to my queue.
Two hours soldering a 12 pin LED. Six wires spliced together each way to form the circuit because they make 12 pin LEDs but not 12pin LED mounts apparently.
I finally connected the battery and...
it exploded.
I didn't check the voltage on the battery. Well, damn.
Dedwrekka on
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Two hours soldering a 12 pin LED. Six wires spliced together each way to form the circuit because they make 12 pin LEDs but not 12pin LED mounts apparently.
I finally connected the battery and...
it exploded.
I didn't check the voltage on the battery. Well, damn.
:bro:
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
Version 2 of my Seahawks ultimate fan costume. I made a different skirt and put one of my not-so-great embroidered logos in it, and got smart and put the cyberlocks and batteries on a hat instead of tied into my hair to help prevent having headaches. The LEDs are also much brighter, and done in 3 sets of 3 to each 9V battery. The plan was for 4 complete sets, but I only was able to finish 2 before the Superbowl.
I made these eggs for my cosplay at south, I made them from paper mâché and designed them and painted them myself. This was my first big craft and I fell in love. I've decided to work on even more eggs and get a collection going.
My crappy band saw broke last night. Cheap tools aren't worth it. That goddamn thing was so noisy and awful I don't even want to replace it.
Fuck off and die.
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The first picture is of some paracord lanyards I've been working on recently.
The second is a necktie I've been working on for the last month.
Edit:better photo of necktie
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“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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Knitdan, is there a pattern for those? What would I look for?
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
Search for "how to make a survival bracelet" should give you plenty of links to both written instructions with pictures as well as YouTube videos if you learn better that way.
550 paracord can be found online or at most big outdoor stores, generally you need around 12 inches for every inch the lanyard or bracelet will be.
They are made with something called cobra stitch, (it may have other names as well) and also it is useful to learn how to make a lanyard knot.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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The necktie was from Extreme Double Knitting by Alastair Post-Quinn.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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I wonder what happens if you try to do that with yarn.
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It'd probably be a lot thinner, like a crochet chain. yarn compresses and you're basically tying granny knots (or square knots? I dunno) around a central core. I thought about trying it but got distracted with other stuff.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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Anyway, this is the reference I used, it has links to the techniques you need.
I wonder what happens if you try to do that with yarn.
We used to make plant hangers out of yarn with this (and similar) stitches, it looks similar, but I think we used more strands in the core so it was flat and wide rather than compressed and square
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10,000 yards.
TEN THOUSAND YARDS
Okay, 9492 yards.
BUT NEARLY TEN THOUSAND YARDS.
Pretty big pic of the plan, so I put it in spoilers.
The thoughts behind the design were mostly about avoiding fingers slipping onto the blade. The moose skull bone at the very end is super dense and hard, so I'm hoping it'll see some action as a blunt tool for killing northern pikes, cause that's how my friend likes to kill his fish.
I love it! It's very cool. Your craftsmanship is a credit to yourself and this community.
I wrapped wire around the hilt and polished the blade with a dremel cloth polishing wheel. I used red rouge followed by white rouge. White rouge is ridiculous on steel.
So here's pictures of my Stark wolves. The ones I brought were cleaned up cast from these masters and painted (sadly it was not my best paint job though :bigfrown: ).
The Direwolf of Lord Stark
The Direwolf of Lord Tony Stark
holy shit dude, that looks so good
also doing the wire wrap on the grip and crossing it over the quillions is an idea that i'm gonna steal for further versions!
hitting hot metal with hammers
You did a great job on making it! I love the work you put into making it.
Polishing with rouge is something I picked up sort of out of self defense. Because I was the "composites repair guy" at our shop (aircraft structure) I had to take care of the composites tool box. Well, we're not supposed to use any tool oil on composites tools because they could contaminate the bonding process for fiberglass or graphite repairs. So, I would have to clean up 100+ bare metal tools every week. That meant a lot of rust or corrosion removal, and a lot of extra work.
One week I sat down and looked at my options. I couldn't add any substance to the tools, but I could try to limit the corrosion reaction. A rougher surface is going to corrode more than a smooth one because of increased surface area. So I took out all the tools and dies, sanded out and gouges or tool marks with 320 grit, then took them to the buffing wheel. I start with a few passes with Emery on the wheel, then Rouge, then White Rouge. The rouge is just a grit of sand held together with a wax, so it didn't leave any residue after you wiped it down with alcohol. Bars of it are also pretty cheap.
People would joke about how I would "Polish my tool", but after that first time I only had to repolish tools in my toolbox once a month. The rest of the time I could wipe it with a rag and be done. Now, I don't recommend it for everything, but White Rouge puts a high shine on metal, and if you smoothed it out before, you walk away with a mirror shine. Larger objects are a little harder to get a consistent surface on, but man it sure is pretty.
Steal my ideas all you want! I don't think there's anything I make or have made that I won't show someone else how to do. If someone makes something from that, then I'm all the happier for it!
Our dies were pretty much all machined in-house. Some of the hand tools were old and had their coatings worn off by years of people being careless with taking care of them (trying to remove dried on resin with angle grinders, for instance), some had the coating removed or broken up from use (punches and hammers particularly), or were bought from the lowest bidder and didn't have especially good protection in the first place.
QA was/is also a pain in the arse so if there was any deformation like the end of a pin punch being deformed (mushroom headed from use), or the inspector claimed to see a spot of rust on it, it had to be sanded/ground. Which took off the protective coating, which we couldn't put back on, which ended up in there being more corrosion. It was the military, pointing out the flaw in that logic got me into enough trouble. A few years of that and most of the tools would lose their coating or the majority of their coating. In the case of our composites toolbox most of the tools hadn't been replaced in nearly a decade.
Ugh. I feel for you.
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I finally connected the battery and...
it exploded.
I didn't check the voltage on the battery. Well, damn.
:bro:
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-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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Any pointers? My google-fu failed me.
To be precise the Black Price's coat/duster
[edit] Costumes aren't props, I know!
Also, I just realized that this isn't the fashion thread
The first picture is of some paracord lanyards I've been working on recently.
The second is a necktie I've been working on for the last month.
Edit:better photo of necktie
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
550 paracord can be found online or at most big outdoor stores, generally you need around 12 inches for every inch the lanyard or bracelet will be.
They are made with something called cobra stitch, (it may have other names as well) and also it is useful to learn how to make a lanyard knot.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
http://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/paracord-lanyard.html
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
We used to make plant hangers out of yarn with this (and similar) stitches, it looks similar, but I think we used more strands in the core so it was flat and wide rather than compressed and square