Bowie damast knife #8

Another nice bowie knife from my Damascus steel knife collection.

Blade thicknes is 5 millimeters, it's lenght is 230 millimeters, it's shaped nearly like a bowie style.

On top, brushed "blade" part isn't quite thin enough, to sharpen it from both sides, so I just left it blunt.

I think it's best way to leavie it like this. I'm just too afraid of my knives, to get hurt or something.

The guard is made from damascus steel also, it's oval shaped, dimensions are 30x50 millimeters(approximately), while it's nearly 8 millimeters thick.

The handle is very close to cilinder shape, but very slightly oval; it's brushed and polished very smooth, so it keeps in hand quite well; no splinters at all..even though, it's not varnished.

The knife sheat is made fom 2 times stiched together swine leather, while the colour is bordoux red(I don't know if it's seen from pictures because of the red background).

My knuckle duster collection

Here's just a quick upadate of my knuckle duster collection; many of them arent finished yet(sand/polished finish, spikes, wooden plates, tight rope...many things are still missing)

date: 28/08/2011

Hammer and sickle engraved aluminum knuckle duster

This is one of my latest knuckle dusters, which was made about 3-4 weeks ago.

Made from 10 millimeters thick aluminum, measures 102 millimeters in lenght and 59 in height.

Palmrest is straight, which is kinda new thing to my knuckle dusters; I don't have any yet without curved palmrest. But although, the grip is still pretty good.

It has engraved Hammer and sickle on both sides, which makes it an opposite knuckle duster of one of my ex knuckle dusters, with swastika engraving(last picture).

On flat fingertops I stamped in letters SSSR, which stand for Savez Sovjetskih Socijalističkih Republika(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), which is an old Russian motto.

Also, on the straight palmrest, I will engrave words “…for mother Russia…”, as soon as I find some of time.

All letters and engravings are painted red!

The finish is sanded, which gives dark silver matt finish to the duster.

Spiked and polished knuckle duster

Here's a new knuckle duster, which I made a week ago.

It's 102 millimeters wide, 67 millimeters high and 10 milimeters thick. It's measurements are very standard, noone of them isn't unusual.

The palmrest is very slightly curved and very long, which is giving very very very good grip to this knuckle duster. I would also dare to say, that this knuckle duster has the best grip of all my knuckle dusters I ever made and I ever held in my hand(which number isn't small).

The distance between fingerholes and palmrest is perfect, palmrest is perfectly curved, thickness is very proper...No other words, that pure comfort.

Fingertops are spiked, which isn't very common to my collection. This si third knuckle duster with spiked fingertops and I think it isn't last.

Finish is polished, I might add sanded finish once, I don't know yet.

F.U.C.K. aluminum knuckle duster

Okay, this is one of my newest knuckle dusters, I made it last friday, I think...

This is one of my favourite knuckle dusters also, it has different fingertops than any of mine had before.
They are flat and slightly angled, just like my spikes on knuckle dusters. And so, that flat fingertops wouldn't be so empty and everything, I stamped on F-U-C-K letters..hehe, I thought that something funny should be imprinted on. I was also thinking of ACAB, PAIN, HATE, LOVE(?!), but FUCK suited best.

It's 101 millimeters wide, measures 67 millimetes in height and is thick 12 millimeters.

Fingerholes are standly oval and on different positions in height.

Palmrest is slightly curved, but is slightly too thin in wideness. The knuckle duster still is fully usefull, but wider palmrest would give much better grip.

I added polished finish for better look.