Rotating display for Sportsman's knife.

ken erickson · Mar 22, 2015

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I wanted to work out a display for the Sheffield style sportsman's knife I made a while back. Many of the Sheffield exhibition knives would be displayed standing on end with everything opened up. I wanted to go a bit further and have this one rotate. About 1 3/4 rpm , 9 volt battery powered. Test ran was about 8 hours continuous run time. The ebony tray holds the tweezers and pick. The base is distressed (worm holes/splits) red oak. Slide switch in back to turn off and on.

black mamba · Mar 22, 2015

Very nice, Ken. How is the knife fastened to the rotating base?

ken erickson · Mar 22, 2015

black mamba said:
Very nice, Ken. How is the knife fastened to the rotating base?

I ground a hardened dowel pin that fits the tweezers slot . The knife sets/balances really nice, open or closed.

erik markman · Mar 22, 2015

Very nice knife and display.

gregorio · Mar 22, 2015

That's a cute display, I've not seen that for personal display.

R APPLEBY · Mar 22, 2015

That's very cool

black mamba · Mar 22, 2015

ken erickson said:
I ground a hardened dowel pin that fits the tweezers slot . The knife sets/balances really nice, open or closed.

Thanks, Ken, what a great idea!

Bigfattyt · Mar 22, 2015

So neat.

If only I had the knife to go in it! In Tortoise shell!

stezann · Mar 23, 2015

Very nice display, i also noticed that the tip of the master resulted centered on the rotating axis, so we can say perfect on 360°

JB in SC · Mar 23, 2015

Snazzy

Bludgeon · Mar 23, 2015

Shut up and take my money.