Blade Mark 2
Sorry for the Necro-ing(?) but I decided to take a second try at the blade (the sheath can stay), mostly so I could get the handle propertions better and have the piece of wood the blade is made of run down the entire handle, so it cannot flew like my first one. I'm also aiming to have a natural wood handle with varnish like
alix965 suggested long ago. Anyway I'm not done yet (it got really hot, who would have thought that would happen in the summer!) but I'm over half way or there abouts:
This is actually the fourth rough shape I've cut, I always seem to mess it up first time!
Lots of circular cutouts again, this time with a much better drill!
Cut them in half and line the side of the handle...
Loving shove an offcut into one to make it wider where the handle meets the guard.
The large parts on...
...and the smaller sections inbetween, this time round I cut one of the half circles in half (down it's depth if that makes sense) creating two thin ones and saving a lot of time, then sanding the edges a little so they don't come out as far.
Again, sorry to bump this back but enjoyed making this Kukri so much I felt I needed to improve it. Now I need to do the other side and guard and get sanding for the varnishing.
Hope everyone had a great New Years and 2010!!!
ARC
PART 2
17/1/2010 (or 1/17/2010 if in USA)
I kept forgetting to update this so I won't drag this back out again with another necro but I finished the handle:
It's much thicker then the previous, but that is roughly the size it is actually meant to be (however the handle in game is thicker across the front whereas mine is thicker down the sides but no matter). The handle is also much stronger and feels a lot nicer! All the groves are cut and filed to look nice and add a lot more grip, all together it's actually rather heavy!