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[Cap’n Smudge]

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This is what we are allowed to carry in public for self defense in California. Mike

Did you get that at Blade Show this year?

 

[XtianAus]

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This is what we are allowed to carry in public for self defense in California. Mike

Even that would be an offence here in NSW, Australia

 

[Fonedork]

Gotta anodize those fasteners Mike

 

[Mike157]

Did you get that at Blade Show this year?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Why yes, how did you know? I won one of the lotteries that a custom knife maker was having!

Even that would be an offence here in NSW, Australia

Yikes! I’d like to visit someday. I’ll be sure to leave my celery at home!

Gotta anodize those fasteners Mike

Think a heat anodize would work? Mike

 

[TRfromMT]

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This is what we are allowed to carry in public for self defense in California. Mike

Nope. No public stalking.

 

[WValtakis]

Nope. No public stalking.

 

[betzner]

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This is what we are allowed to carry in public for self defense in California. Mike

Oh??

 

[Mike157]

Nope. No public stalking.

Ha! That’s just perfect! Mike

 

[Mike157]

Oh??

Well, Bob, we all know that you have special permission from her majesty, the queen! And that Bob Lum looks pretty darn familiar! Mike

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

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This is what we are allowed to carry in public for self defense in California. Mike

^ that had better be organic

 

[Mike157]

^ that had better be organic

Ha, ha, ha! Of course it is. In the city in which I live, if you don’t go to prison, you might be hung for eating non-organic food. I may have this wrong, but I think I remember that in chemistry, anything with carbon in it is considered organic- so there is that. So is ZDP189 more organic than 1095?

Nathan, I hope you’re enjoying some smooth whisky at this late hour. Mike

 

[Pàdruig]

Good morning, folks.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

balance point for a project I was recently working on

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Very stout blade on that. I used deep hollows, a substantial fuller and weighted pommel to achieve a balance directly ahead of the guard.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

The grinds are twisted, a shallow helix, to add some meat ahead of the guard and again at the point. Historical weapons were made this way, although modern production daggered generally aren't.

without this twist the intersection of two hollow grinds forms a weak concave section at the point. This point is a strong convex tip center section that will tolerate penetrating body armor (or being dropped, lol)

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

The starting blank was a little over 24 pounds if I recall. The finished dagger was a little over 24 ounces. Pretty good for a 14" blade that is about 3/8" at the ricasso. This is a stout dagger that turned out light and very well balanced.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

This was the most challenging knife related project I've untaken to date.

 

[Casinostocks]

Nathan, is Dagger the official pattern name then? I have also seen folks referring to it as a short sword and I know that the person (AKA Turd Blossom) who had originally commissioned the special project with you, was thinking a sword at the beginning. Just curious as to how you exactly baptized it? It sure as heck looks like a larger version of your 10" Daggers to me, so I'm just being curious as had stated!

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

The scales are black G10. They're held on with a total of 16 hidden threaded pins in 32 square bottomed threaded holes, bedded with Acraglas

I lost actually lost some sleep figuring out how to sharpen this point without messing it up at the last minute.

 

[Pàdruig]

The grinds are twisted, a shallow helix, to add some meat ahead of the guard and again at the point. Historical weapons were made this way, although modern production daggered generally aren't.

without this twist the intersection of two hollow grinds forms a weak concave section at the point. This point is a strong convex tip center section that will tolerate penetrating body armor (or being dropped, lol)

That is a detail that I never would have thought of but is unbelievably cool. I've often heard of WWII era daggers having broken tips and such, that twisted grind just makes perfect sense.