These videos are very informative. Very helpful for someone like me who is interested in the craft but doesn't know much about the production side and terminology.
Perfect timing! I've been looking for a video addressing this topic for a couple of days and have come up empty handed until now. You have some of the best tutorials I've come across here on the Tube, thanks man!
Love the vid, I subscribed and will be looking up more chalk talks! One question, that will probably lead to more. You referred to the shoulders several times ie, the junction between the handle and blade on a traditional hidden tank knife. But what about a full tang? When making a full tang knife with distal taper in the blade and also a distally tapered tang, is there any other option aside from leaving the ricasso, or a portion of it, un-tapered? I can't think of another way to distal taper from both ends and not end up with a funky ridge where they meet. But I've also never tried it.
Hey mate, thanks! I will often just have the two tapers meet just in front of the scales, but if I had a surface grinder I would leave the riccasso section parallel. It's all down to preference, but it doesn't have to be a sharp Ridge, you can blend it to a smooth transition
What type of distal taper would you reccomend for a full tang iklwa spear? Making my first spear blade and am trying to figure out the grinding for bevels and tapers
For iklwa and assegai the originals I have looked at tapered from about 6mm (1/4") down to about 1mm (.042") near the tip. They are insanely thin haha.
@SamTownsBladesmith yeah, the base stock is 1/4 inch and I'm looking at doing several different angles along the blade, if that makes sense. I'm trying to make the spear both a stab and slash weapon so I'm trying to keep it a little thicker for more rigidity
