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Colt Reeves
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| Jean Thibodeau wrote: | Well, I always tend to at least imagine how I would tactically use just about anything in my hands from this Kukri to even a shovel when clearing snow or even an umbrella.    [/u] |
You do that too? I mean... Ahem, you are very strange.
"Tears are for the craven, prayers are for the clown.
Halters for the silly neck that cannot keep a crown.
As my loss is grievous, so my hope is small.
For Iron, Cold Iron, must be master of men all..."
-Cold Iron, Rudyard Kipling
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Jean Thibodeau
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Well the previous batch of pics was the STAGE I modifications, these new pics are the STAGE II modifications:
I added more grooves mostly for aesthetic reasons but also because the grip felt a bit slippery.
One one side is a low relief carving of the official " Biohazard " logo often used in Zombie movies and on the other side an inscription meaning Level 5 biohazard ..... in the real World the levels stop at level 4 but in fiction lever 5 has been used to indicate something extreme like a zombie apocalypse or other types of plagues or Alien Invasion.
The original intent was to write L5 but if looked at up side down it reads as " something else ": The funny thing is that I noticed this " AFTER " I did the carving.
The blade has been refinished by antiquing it with lemon juice and vinegar: This time I used an elastic sports bandage that I soaked in the lemon juice and vinegar and tightly wrapper around the blade. This cause some very fine etches wiggly lines to form on the blade.
I did a few extra cycles of lemon juice but this time using my older method of soaking toilet paper to partial transfer texture.
Also one cycle of stippling mustard on the blade, letting it dry and then cleaning with soap and water.
Finally some very fine synthetic steel wool to get the blade semi bright again but leaving it darker than it was originally.
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First what it looked like at STAGE I with only a reduction in handle thickness and before oil finishing.
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STAGE II grooves, oil finish and blade treatment.
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Biohazard Logo and grooves in handle carved with a small V gouge and later darkened using wood burning.
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Close up on Logo.
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L5 Logo.
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L5 or Area 51 ??? Could be both !
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You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!
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Jean Thibodeau
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More pics showing the handle from different angles and pics of the blade treatment and texture: It is a bit subtle in the pics but is more granular/pitted plus with fine wiggly lines etched in and is a nice light grey.
Note, there are more grooves at the top and underside of the grip that extend up into the sides but stop short of surrounding the handle.
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Top of handle grooves.
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Underside grooves.
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Close up of finish near the guard.
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Texture harder to see in this pic.
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You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!
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Lafayette C Curtis
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Ahahahah. A zombie killer kukri? Now that's hilarious. Awesome work, too.
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Ken Speed
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| Posted: Fri 07 Dec, 2012 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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"Lafayette" wrote, "Ahahahah. A zombie killer kukri? Now that's hilarious. Awesome work, too."
I'm not sure if you aware that this kukri is essentially a backup zombie killer to a sword Jean modified a while ago. As such it's about as big a back up as ever I've seen.
Yes, I agree, Jean does some really incredible work.
Ken
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