The fisherman

Von Gruff

Von Gruff

KNIFE MAKER
Got this fishermans knife done and ready for the sheath and sharpening. i/8 12C27 stainless, walnut handle with 4 x 3/32 brass pins and lanyard tube. Blade taken to 1000 grit and polished on buffing wheel as is the walnut after sanding to 600 grit. I have to get myself a light box to get pics that dont washout the grain and other detail.
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Looks great Vonn. Have you tried taking pictures early or later in the day outside? I do a lot of my photography then or best is cloudy overcast days.
 
opaul said:
Looks great Vonn. Have you tried taking pictures early or later in the day outside? I do a lot of my photography then or best is cloudy overcast days.
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I t is probably more a case of me needing a pic (NOW) and just putting my blue felt background down on the lounge floor and when I need a pic it is often either late in the day when the light is gone (it is late winter here atm) or at night after I finally sit down for the day and can get back to the forums.
 
I've come back to this thread for the third time today, each time I see more about this knife that I like. It's one of the nicest fishing knives I think I have run across. Well done sir!
 
DanF said:
I've come back to this thread for the third time today, each time I see more about this knife that I like. It's one of the nicest fishing knives I think I have run across. Well done sir!
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To be perfectly honest Dan, the client sent me this pic and said "something like this please", so I take no credit for the design. I simple lengthened the front top part of the handle and reflected the line of the pins in the lower half. I also moved the plunge line fractionally closer to the ricasso.
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Von Gruff said:
To be perfectly honest Dan, the client sent me this pic and said "something like this please", so I take no credit for the design. I simple lengthened the front top part of the handle and reflected the line of the pins in the lower half. I also moved the plunge line fractionally closer to the ricasso.
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This is what interests me personally about knifemaking. Looking at the history of knifemaking, if we sit and draw out a concept for something we maybe have not done personally done before, there's a pretty good chance someone else has done something like it. It is what we do to that style on a very personal level that sets our concept apart from others. Your very personal "tweaks" make your vision for that knife style very different.
To my eye, the image of the knife sent to you is a very nice knife. You took that, modified it a bit and came up with something although maybe subtle, has a different look and "impression". Your rendition, with the plunge line angled slightly forward, towards the knife's point and the front of the handle following that plunge line then dropping straight back about halfway down, and a slight change to the blade makes me think of, or gives me the sense of motion in a static, still object. THAT ain't easy, well done.
 
DanF said:
This is what interests me personally about knifemaking. Looking at the history of knifemaking, if we sit and draw out a concept for something we maybe have not done personally done before, there's a pretty good chance someone else has done something like it. It is what we do to that style on a very personal level that sets our concept apart from others. Your very personal "tweaks" make your vision for that knife style very different.
To my eye, the image of the knife sent to you is a very nice knife. You took that, modified it a bit and came up with something although maybe subtle, has a different look and "impression". Your rendition, with the plunge line angled slightly forward, towards the knife's point and the front of the handle following that plunge line then dropping straight back about halfway down, and a slight change to the blade makes me think of, or gives me the sense of motion in a static, still object. THAT ain't easy, well done.
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I agree 100%.
 
Thanks for the kind words. Design is something that I think through in the dark sleepless hours so by the time I go to put it into pattern form most of what I want to do is already in my head. First thing is to cut out a pattern (marginally oversize) from 1/4 in customwood as it is easy to alter it at this stage with little tweaks and when it "feels right" in the hand (in multiple use positions) and "looks right" to the eye I can mark in the handle dimensions and for this one extending the top of the handle like that allows the full length of the thumb to be on wood so it has a softer feel than if it was on the spine like it would be on the original. When the customwood pattern is right I transfer it to light sheet steel so I can replicate as necessary.
 
Extending the handle forward for the thumb to rest is a really good idea. I hadn't picked that up even comparing the two images. That is indeed an improvement in functionality.
 
opaul said:
Vonn. I have to ask - do you write poetry?
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No and never have, and have no apreciation for it either although I remember having recited a few limericks back in the day though ;)
The writing I have done has been of a serious nature on rifle stock building and custom rifles I have done ( I have about 30 rifles in the last few years for myself and others) and a piece done as a part work in a book a friend was putting together as an aid for gunsmith aprentices.
 
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