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Rough Rider Knife kit build... and long video!
Divided he ad:
Thanks David :thumbup:
I do try sometimes :)
This one has been hanging around for a while. I had started the filework on the spine months ago but then put it away and forgot it!
Still, done now and Quite happy with it. I thought I'd posted on the 3 blade slip joint too But can't find it? So I might just put up a pic of that or the 4 of them? A little later though....
Ralph.
Lew_Merrick_PE:
Nice workmanship.
I have to admit that laws dealing with knives are truly screwy. Here in the U.S. the 2nd Amendment is always discussed in terms of firearms without the understanding that it was knives and (short) swords that were the foundation of war when it was written. The first war in which more people were killed or wounded with propellant-powered slugs than sharp pointy things was the Crimean War. When the Shot Heard 'Round the World was fired at Concord during the American Revolution, more Redcoats were killed or wounded by arrows than by bullets! Our Hollywood view of history has blurred this. On the 7th of January 1815 in Chalmette Louisiana where the Battle of New Orleans was fought, the weapon that terrorized the British soldiers was the Kaintuck Toothpick -- a (roughly) two foot dagger. There were (as of 1982) hundreds of them at that National Park museum there (not being sure how many survived Katrina).
My education in smithing began when, as an 8-year old, I helped make machetes from truck leaf springs to deal with slide alder for hiking in Washington State's Cascade Mountains. Most of my personal knife making has focused on fixed blade knives, though I have designed and made several folding knives (including an all ceramic and composite multi-blade switchblade tool for Explosive Ordinance Disposal work -- that had to be (1) non-magnetic, (2) non-conductive, and (3) able to be manipulated while wearing the baseball-mitt type gloves the EOD techs wear -- quite a design challenge). While working in Louisiana for NASA, I was constantly being harassed by cops for carrying a Swiss Army knife -- in a State with an open carry law. You could wear a .44 magnum handgun openly, but it was a felony to open any pocket knife in public!
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Thanks Lew,
A history lesson too.... Got to say I knew very little of that info!
--- Quote ---I was constantly being harassed by cops for carrying a Swiss Army knife -- in a State with an open carry law. You could wear a .44 magnum handgun openly, but it was a felony to open any pocket knife in public!
--- End quote ---
:lol:
Sounds about right... Politicians trying to make the public happy and gain the vote by any chance?
Oooo...Getting too political already!
Happy you liked the works :thumbup:
Ralph.
Anzaniste:
I liked your long video. It gave a good feel to what it is like to rivet over the pins. I also appreciated the time you spent showing the linishing.
What really impressed me was that you did not pein your thumb. :bugeye:
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--- Quote ---What really impressed me was that you did not pein your thumb. :bugeye:
--- End quote ---
:lol:
Done that plenty of times... Been swinging hammers for various jobs over quite a few years now. You get good at aiming quick or have a very sore left hand!
Even taken the glasses off my face once or twice on the way down! :hammer: That makes you think about what you're doing a little more :loco:
Glad you liked the vid. :)
Ralph.
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