What was wrong with the masecraft?
I've snapped two blanks during fabrication... Not to mention it's not very attractive... It looks like brown blobs in acrylic rather than tortoise shell
What was wrong with the masecraft?
Mike,
you can just defer to mycarver if he says something can or can't be done. If that's who's going to do the work, then it'll get done right. If you try this yourself, however, I'd be careful about getting the acrylics too thin on razor scales. I've done a bunch of them in acrylic and rescaled stuff in horn and bone (and of course I own a few ivory ones) and the acrylic is highly susceptible to snapping. It's nowhere near as ductile as any of the natural materials. One of my favorite sets of scales actually cracked at the pivot pin days later just sitting in a drawer. I'd put the pin hole too near the end and combined with the stress from the peening there just wasn't enough mass to handle it.
Oh man that's a gorgeous blade. It looks like it's part of a 7 day set too
Rob, this is one of Henry's (professorchaos) Helje's. It does appear to be a part of a seven day set this one being Monday. I borrowed his photo for illustrative purposes. Seems modern technology has not replicated a proper color and mottling of tortoise so the search will be not an easy one. I am going to correspond with some custom knife makers who source their scales from various vendors.
Hey! Thanks for reminding me of that razor. I'm going to use it tomorrow.
Btw my ivory scales are 0.065" thick for reference
Here are some really thin ivory scales that my Mappin & Webb Nulli Secundus had original.... I wouldn't mind scales this thin on the Helje's
Echanged a few emails with Mark (mycarver)...... I probably JUMPED the gun on deciding on faux tortoise...seems very hard to source and perhaps these Swedish blades deserve much better than plastique anyway huh? Natural materials seem to make more sense. I am thinking perhaps contrasting...Ebony/Ivory...Or maybe even Bone or Horn. Back to the drawing board.
Here are some really thin ivory scales that my Mappin & Webb Nulli Secundus had original.... I wouldn't mind scales this thin on the Helje's