Just a prototype working version of a 128-23 and a 128-12 blade only, scale material is paper micarta, or phenolic resin and paper its probably as close as you can get to the old style collins black scales. Scales are bolted on with NAS stainless bolts, silver plated NAS reduced head nuts and NAS stainless washers. […]
Month: May 2015
Daisho of GTK 128’s
GTK 128-22 and 128-12 pre polish:
My first GTK 128-22 with hamon
It ended up being a flip flop hamon or temper line because I discovered after several attempts that in order to harden these thin blades in a Japanese style you had to harden the spine also. Cupping and warping was a problem at first:
More file finishing: Yes you can file to this tolerance
See attached: I decided to see if I could resurface a Brown and Sharpe 760 gauge block. I bought the magnetic chuck for polishing blades The gauge bock came pout pretty good considering:
File finished metal pattern on stainless
Nice wave pattern, curly loa below: Same metal different angle:
Link to GTK 128 prototype showing handling and balance
This vid shows how close to the hilt the rotation point is of this type of machete:
Photos of Workbench 128 drop belly blade and a John EK
Photo showing my workbench assembly area with the cranked handle, drop belly 128 Hint,.. my scales are bolted on and removable: Photo showing a John EK that my brother carried in the first gulf war. It’s the JuJu of the knife on that one. John EK knives were legendary. Usually if you had one […]
Photo of Collins 128 and 2 Dha’s
Photo of the previous traced patterns:
Photos showing Static Axis of Rotation SAR
This photo shows how the grip angle compared to the blade either sweeps back or sweeps forward. What I call S.A.R. The more forward the sweep the faster the acceleration in the machete swing i.e., the quicker you can get the thing moving. With a wrist flick. These blades all vary between 375 and 750 grams […]