tsterling
Elite Cafe Member
Here are two knife scales I just finished for William Henry Studios.
This is their B10 model, and the scales are 416 stainless steel. I’ve placed one main inlay on them, a longhorn beetle in shibuichi (25% silver, 75% copper) with 24k gold antennae. The other side has a highly carved centipede with 24k gold legs. If you look closely, you might find a small jumping spider as well.
I vividly remember seeing one of these bad boy centipedes as a young child in Texas, when I was perhaps 5 or 6. Black body and startlingly yellow legs, it seemed like it was a foot long and struck me as being “powerful.†Bugs aren’t something you would normally think of as powerful. Stingers, biters, scratchers, yes, but not as having power. But this thing was angry, not happy being held down with a stick across its’ middle, and it seemed to be winning the fight.
As usual, you can see the ad nauseum multiple part tutorial of making these at my blog: http://sterlingsculptures.com/wp/?p=3220
Thanks for looking!
Tom
This is their B10 model, and the scales are 416 stainless steel. I’ve placed one main inlay on them, a longhorn beetle in shibuichi (25% silver, 75% copper) with 24k gold antennae. The other side has a highly carved centipede with 24k gold legs. If you look closely, you might find a small jumping spider as well.
I vividly remember seeing one of these bad boy centipedes as a young child in Texas, when I was perhaps 5 or 6. Black body and startlingly yellow legs, it seemed like it was a foot long and struck me as being “powerful.†Bugs aren’t something you would normally think of as powerful. Stingers, biters, scratchers, yes, but not as having power. But this thing was angry, not happy being held down with a stick across its’ middle, and it seemed to be winning the fight.
As usual, you can see the ad nauseum multiple part tutorial of making these at my blog: http://sterlingsculptures.com/wp/?p=3220
Thanks for looking!
Tom
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