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Post by Phillip on Jun 12, 2013 12:08:59 GMT
Feel free to discuss: 25.media.tumblr.com/328550983556 ... o1_500.gif I want this bad boy...maybe Brother Bonzai can comment. Kinda want this as the next SBG project blade... |
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Post by LemuelTheLemur on Jun 12, 2013 12:54:21 GMT
Having that on you would be the fantasy equivalent of having a bikini model wallpaper on your mobile  it is a very cool toy tho |
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Post by randomnobody on Jun 12, 2013 18:51:19 GMT
I've had worse wallpapers on my electronic devices. I've seen racier tattoos. Heck, worse jewelry. There are tons of "erotic" daggers etc. with the "naked lady" theme, from full figurual handles to painted or carved images or scenes. This is pretty tame. Would probably not be very comfortable in use, though...  |
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Post by brotherbanzai on Jun 14, 2013 13:22:31 GMT
He's really going to town on that thing. If he'd hold still for a minute I could get a better look at it :lol:
Something like that is certainly doable, but making it a truly functional dagger would be iffy. The difficult part from what I can see would be having a way for the tang to extend the length of the hilt to be hot peened. That one likely only has a stub of tang (pardon the pun) on it which is epoxied or otherwise attached to a slot (still no pun intended) in the grip.
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Post by randomnobody on Jun 14, 2013 19:09:41 GMT
I dunno, she's skinny, but most handled are. From what little I can make out, her extended leg seems to drape the spine(? I'm not sure this is single-edge) whereas the actual grip is her abdomen, with her other leg playing the guard. Should be reasonably substantial for a dagger, but hard to say. Could be this thing: www.faganarms.com/a-curious-ital ... 96470.aspx Or maybe this one: www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5536Depending on where it actually connects... But I can only think of being kneed in the gut every other step while wearing this one. :oops: |
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Post by Valandur on Jun 14, 2013 19:45:32 GMT
Could get the figure cast in bronze and attach it to the tang with rivets? It's possible that you could drill out wide areas to where the rivets could be almost countersunk, then once the piece is riveted to the tang, braze around the rivet head to hide the rivet, and shape the brazing material to where the figure is smooth and the rivet totally hidden. Does that make sense? Explaining what I mean has proven difficult :roll:
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Post by Phillip on Jun 15, 2013 4:03:37 GMT
 I think it's possible going full tang with this? Pun intended. |
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Post by randomnobody on Jun 15, 2013 7:55:00 GMT
You tech folk and your image editors, grabbing frames from gifs and stuff.
I see the leg actually crosses a sort of ricasso before tracing the fuller of what appears to be a vet narrow, but double-edge blade. Definitely looks like there's enough room there for a proper tang, but I'm not sure how one would secure it. Peening at the lady's head, perhaps, could be blended, maybe...but could it perhaps be bonded otherwise?
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Post by brotherbanzai on Jun 26, 2013 23:24:28 GMT
The problem isn't securing the tang to the hilt, the problem is being able to cast the bronze hilt with a long narrow slot through it.
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Post by randomnobody on Jun 27, 2013 17:46:36 GMT
Granted. Probably not feasible to go by halves, as the join would be a bit messy I'm sure. Likewise I can't think of anything to stick into the middle to "fill" the spot.
Wouldn't want to be the guy to carve it out after the fact, either.
Surely, though, such things have been achieved. There's so many figural knives, daggers, and swords about, many with metal hilts. Probably an easier way than we're thinking of, or just really stupidly hard to pull off by any but the most devoted for the sake of art.
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Post by brotherbanzai on Jul 2, 2013 23:04:35 GMT
Most likely, metal hilted pieces you've seen were achieved one of three ways; stub of a tang into a short slot in the metal hilt, metal hilt done in sections, metal hilt done completely hollow and thin walled negating the need to create a channel for the tang. I do have a bit of experience in this area |
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 3, 2013 0:13:49 GMT
Of course I'm well aware of your experience. I've also seen a fair number of daggers and knives with somewhat complex hilts made of a single, solid piece of steel. Doesn't look like this here. I imagine one could apply the stub and method on a larger scale to fit a proper tang. I'm not trying to say I know how it's done, in just pondering ideas for our resident "experienced" ( ) people to give some feedback on, because I'm bored. :oops: |
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it is a very cool toy tho
