Digitized knife! And not the one you thought!

Welp, while I wanted to work on a particular knife for this project, I made the mistake of misplacing said knife after taking the original photos. I have given up the search for the time being, and instead will deconstruct the Cold Steel Black Talon II.

This knife has some excellent curavture not seen on many blades out there-- the closest historical equivalent to this would be the harvesting or pruning pattern of slipjoint. Other than the lock and blade, this knife has little in common from it's predessesor, including the number of parts inside.

This is a rough takedown of the knife, all screws, pins and washers accounted for. Below, you can see a scan that I then started to draw on top of. The screws and pins are simple enough that I don't feel the need to scan them into my drawings, as they can be measured very quickly and are not complex overall.

Here you can see how I've started my drawing; by creating a circle the same diameter as the pivot hole in the blade and centering them, I can then scale the image to match, meaning the rest of my drawings will be accurate to the original object.

And here is the beginning of the rest of the drawings.

Sorry for being late with this, I had really wanted to model the Sebenza. Maybe next time.

Vinyl Cut + Transfer

Welp, I forgot to take pictures of the entire process, but here is the file I used to get the cuts made;

And here is the vinyl after being peeled off the sheet and applied to some copper sheet, then  punched out on a disk, and sand-blasted.

 

Reverse Engineered Object... pocket knife!

The object I've chosen to recreate is a pocket knife manufactured by Chris Reeve, the Sebenza. It has won multiple awards over the years as one of the most well machined folding knives currently in production. Reeve, once a die and tool maker, exerts such exact tolerances that it is not unusual to see Sebenza's for sale for over $500 CAD. In total there are nearly 20 parts, including washers, thumbstud and handle spacers. As I want to produce my own folding knives in the future alongside the fixed blade knives I currently make, this seemed like an optimal choice.

Vinyl Rhino Drawings

Here are the original sketches for the images I've chosen;

And here are the Hatched and Curved versions of both!

Object Tattoo??

From chess to knives to chess again-- This concept has gone a ways.

 

First step was to take my original sketch into rhino, and trace everything out.

 

 When tracing I made use of circles and arcs first to make the general shape, and mirror it across the center-- I did not make my original design perfectly the first time.

 Here you can see the lines completed! But of course the cutter won't give us anything useful. So, I re-traced the lines into clear individualized segments, and then offset them.

Here you see the lines now that they've been offset....

And below, you can see them by themselves! This is how the individual stickers will look.