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Russ Ellis
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 Posted: Mon 12 Apr, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject: It's the little things... |
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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.
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Russ Ellis
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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.
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Joe Fults
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No pics of the dirk then? 
"The goal shouldn’t be to avoid being evil; it should be to actively do good." - Danah Boyd
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Russ Ellis
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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.
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Jay Barron
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| Russ Ellis wrote: | | Just realized I left the bloody dirk out... |
Bloody, huh? I see you've really been putting the dirk through it's paces. Perhaps you shouldn't send it back to me. I'm not really interested in getting my fingerprints all over "exhibit A". 
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Bill Grandy
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| Posted: Thu 15 Apr, 2004 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Jay Barron wrote: | | Perhaps you shouldn't send it back to me. |
Russ, you can count me as a witness that Jay just said that!
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Russ Ellis
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Jay Barron
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I said perhaps you shouldn't send it back. After careful consideration I've changed my mind. 
Constant and true.
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Russ Ellis
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Lee Watts
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nice Russ. Im going to have to expand my collection to include less type XII's and more knives and daggers
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S. Bjelke
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That board you are working on is it oak or what?
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Russ Ellis
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This is a standard topic