Posts: 24 Location: Solingen/Germany
Thu 27 Mar, 2008 2:38 am
My new dirk
Hi, there,
Iīve just finished a dirk and would like to show it to you. Hope youīll like it.
Handle is Cocobolo with brass, length overall 16 1/2ī, blade length 12ī, blade width 1 1/2ī.
Greetings from Germany
Thomas[/img]
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Posts: 63 Location: New Hampshire, USA
Thu 27 Mar, 2008 2:52 am
Not bad, quite good in fact. The handle looks a little rough but that's no necessarily a bad thing, good complexity as well and it's better than anything I could do, I also like the large knot in the center.
What materials did you use for blade steel and the handle?
Posts: 24 Location: Solingen/Germany
Thu 27 Mar, 2008 3:28 am
Handle is Cocobolo with brass. I give a linseed oil treatment to the wood, because I personally donīt like staining. With the linseed oil the wood gets more durable.
The rough appearance is intented, actually, because I try to copy authentic dirks and donīt want to create an over-perfect piece of art.
The blade on this one is a common blade sold by companies like CrazyCrow or Track-of-the-wolf. They are of decent quality, although I have to reshape them in respect of taper especially. So a new heat treatment is needed, too.
But those blades are a great alternative to my self made blades, especially for dirks of the late jacobean era.
Cheers
Thomas
Posts: 1,241 Location: NC
Thu 27 Mar, 2008 4:49 am
Very nice job. Wish I could do that.
Posts: 656
Thu 27 Mar, 2008 9:15 am
Thomas,
Beautiful job! Did you make the blade too? My hat is off to you for your carving, carving cocobolo must be extremely difficult.
Ken Speed
Posts: 63 Location: New Hampshire, USA
Thu 27 Mar, 2008 10:48 am
Thomas Pludra wrote: |
Handle is Cocobolo with brass. I give a linseed oil treatment to the wood, because I personally donīt like staining. With the linseed oil the wood gets more durable.
The rough appearance is intented, actually, because I try to copy authentic dirks and donīt want to create an over-perfect piece of art.
The blade on this one is a common blade sold by companies like CrazyCrow or Track-of-the-wolf. They are of decent quality, although I have to reshape them in respect of taper especially. So a new heat treatment is needed, too.
But those blades are a great alternative to my self made blades, especially for dirks of the late jacobean era.
Cheers
Thomas |
It has a beautiful color, good call on the linseed oil: Track-of-the-Wolf, yet they are based out of the USA and you're in Solingen; It's as if that running Wolf mark really did get around.
Posts: 656
Thu 27 Mar, 2008 3:41 pm
Hi Thomas,
I reread your post, I missed your comments about the blade the first time.
Sorry,
Ken
Posts: 79
Sun 13 Apr, 2008 10:01 pm
Hello Thomas,
Nice work on the dirk. Your hard work has really paid off. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work. :)
-Todd
Posts: 8,310 Location: Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Sun 13 Apr, 2008 10:55 pm
Nice work but I wonder about the blade design as it seems to have more belly than most dirks I have seen that are a bit more triangular and pointy: This would make the blade a better cutting/slashing blade than a more thrust oriented dirk.
Not that I don't like it, and I don't know the variants of dirk blade shapes well enough to know if this blade shape was rare, common or not traditonal: Just curious about the design/aesthetics decisions involved.
Posts: 24 Location: Solingen/Germany
Mon 14 Apr, 2008 10:22 am
Thanks for your kind comments.
Jean, actually the blade isnīt as bulky as it appears in the picture. Itīs an effect my camera did produce. The shape of it is oriented towards late jacobean dirks.
@Korey- the times of handmade blades from Solingen seem to have vanished. Unfortunately there are only very few blade smiths left, who forge their blades by hand.
Regards
Thomas
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