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Making A Sword Cane***Very Large 35+ Pix***
Tim Crosby:
One of the fella's here asked me about making a Sword Cane I was getting the pieces together to make another and decided to take Pix along the way. The blade was shaped from an old Corn Knife.
The blank for the case, the corn knife with the shape of the blade on it and some candidates for the handle.
In the process of shaping the blade.
The blank split on the band saw.
Tim Crosby:
Fitting the handle on the blade, I left out the part about laying out and cutting the opening for the blade in the handle by mistake. Any question just ask.
Starting to cut the opening for the blade on both sides of the blank.
Fitting the blade into the blank.
This is the spring that will hold the blade in.
The case glued and clamped.
Tim Crosby:
The blank for the tip mounted on a Pen Mandrel. It is a piece of Mulie antler with a 1/4" hole drilled through it.
Brass plate that will be the ferrules.
Sawing them out and fitting them.
Tim Crosby:
The tip rough turned.
The ferrules rough fit and the blade fit to the handle. Three Steel pins hold it in place with some Epoxy for filling.
Here you can see how the case was cut to Eight sides and tapered getting ready to round it out.
The sides were cut on a Table saw and then tapered on a jointer.
Tim Crosby:
Most of the shaping was done with rasps here in the clean up mode with a scraper. Behind it you can can see the piece of angle iron I used to find the high spots, smoke it up run it on and scrape. I probably did it 2K times.
Almost finished and ready for sanding. You can see the Brass ferrule on the end it is attached with 4 screws.
The Brass bolt being filed to fit, it will go up through the tip and into the case.
Laying out the locations for the Pewter bands that will be poured in place.
A pattern made from file folder card that will wrap around the case and be taped in place.
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