By happenstance I happened to have a couple of knives in my possession to do some work on. The first one is Arms and Armor's medieval knife. It's a simple utilitarian sort of piece that has been dressed up a little by the metall ring that they placed at the end of the handle. I built a scabbard for it and also ended up doing some cleanup work on it. It had been rather badly abused by whoever had sharpened it for the customer. The edge was a mess and it was scratched up. A lot of polishing and grinding later and I had it looking presentable again.

One question for Craig and the boys, are these knives hardened? This one seemed to be very soft. I rolled the edge once fairly easily.

The other knife was a dirk by Armart. They did a nice job on this particular dirk. It's a shame that they can't seem to get it together in a business sense.

No pics of the dirk then? :confused:

Just realized I left the bloody dirk out. (Okay not literally bloody) Sorry got a little excited about the scabbard. One thing I'm wonder about is if the guys at Arms and Armor temper this knife. It seemed very soft when I was sharpening it.

Woo wooo!

I said perhaps you shouldn't send it back. After careful consideration I've changed my mind. [ Linked Image ]

Curses! Foiled again...

nice Russ. Im going to have to expand my collection to include less type XII's and more knives and daggers

That board you are working on is it oak or what?

Good eye, yes it is oak