Daniel Macina
Well-Known Member
Ok so I've recently been researching Quillon Daggers quite a bit as weapons from the Medieval/ Renaissance era fascinate me and ran across this video it was eye opening for me. Maybe someone else will enjoy it.
John, you bring up something that haunts me every time I work on a new design.... Is it proportionally correct. It sure would be nice to have thread dedicated to design. Building a hunting knife seems easy for me, I used to hunt a lot. I've never chopped down a tree with a bowie knife so designing one would be difficult. Would anyone else like to see a thread dedicated to design?the golden mean is a very interesting thing. When I was drawing up my first Bowie I kept feeling like it was just “off” in some way that i couldn’t put my finger on.
I called one of my mentors and was discussing it. He told me to go back over the drawing dimensions and compare what I had to the golden ratio. The length of the edge vs the length of the clip, the height of the blade vs the height of the ricasso, overall length vs blade length vs handle length.
In each of these dimensions I was close, but off. Adjusting these relationships was a very subtle adjustment, with an immediately substantial impact. The tiniest of tweaks made a whole new knife.
From there you can change lines for style. We don’t have to be slaves to ratios completely, but using proven ratios is definitely a great place to start.
John, you bring up something that haunts me every time I work on a new design.... Is it proportionally correct. It sure would be nice to have thread dedicated to design. Building a hunting knife seems easy for me, I used to hunt a lot. I've never chopped down a tree with a bowie knife so designing one would be difficult. Would anyone else like to see a thread dedicated to design?
Dont forget that it dosent all work with figurative proportions of handle to blade length. A capping knife, a skinner and a butcher knife all have different uses and very different blade proportions to each other and not all would come within the golden ratio and they can all look right without doing so.
Dont forget that it dosent all work with figurative proportions of handle to blade length. A capping knife, a skinner and a butcher knife all have different uses and very different blade proportions to each other and not all would come within the golden ratio and they can all look right without doing so.