Keris Part 2

[@TyrellKnifeworks]

Amazing build, Airin! One tip, instead of using the dremmel, chuck that abrasive disk in your drill press and raise your table and just lie the piece flat on the table and slide it against the disk, then it’s perfectly straight. 👍

[@Aleeknives]

Nice!!!

[@SawForgeGarage]

Awesome tip. Glad I read the comments.

[@franotoole2702]

Was a great build Airin. Little tip in regards to doing the bolster groove. If you put the cutter in your drill press and use it to mark a groove all around the bolster, makes keeping it straight real easy.

[@TWKKNIVES]

Never cease to Amaze... How do you find the time... I know the right tool for the right job etc. but that build would have taken me 20 times as long and wouldn't hold a candle to the final product... it's a real work of Art. No B S.

[@Aleeknives]

Thank you Travis! This project actually took me quite a long time. I think I probably have close to 30 hours invested in it. I know you wouldn't gather that from watching the videos but in reality it is much different. I blacked out the fittings using oxpho blue from Brownells

[@andyc750]

still think this was arguably the best blade there, certainly the most original, and the details in the build make all the difference, awesome work and thanks for sharing it with us lot out here

[@Aleeknives]

Thank you Andy!

[@Aleeknives]

This was so much fun to build!

[@jerryjohnsonii4181]

Spectacular Keris Sword !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Aleeknives]

Thank you!

[@richardbranton2780]

I miss you man you need to come back you are by far my favorite KZbinrs

[@Aleeknives]

I really appreciate that Richard! I will be back in action soon!

[@sudo_nym]

I'd echo that!!

[@lunkydog]

Nice use of the mammoth tusk.

[@Aleeknives]

Thanks man!

[@Fabrice1970]

That is a master piece. Well done

[@Aleeknives]

Thank you!

[@mcrich1978]

Beautiful material! Beautiful blade!

[@TWKKNIVES]

that sounds like my first dagger man for the dagger challenge I messed up like after 3 weeks of working on it and decided to scrap it but I in the aftermath of all that been working on it when I have had time and corrected the problem what's really coincidentally cool and crazy is that what I have been working on is kind of a smaller version of what you have in your hand right there I'm going to message you a picture of it it's not done yet but I still have some finishing work to do on the handle yet but other than that it's pretty well there for what I can do I guess

[@zombieslogic8390]

I've seen people who do a lot of file work, grind the teeth off certain faces of their files. Plan on buying a couple sets to do that to. That way you can work on your rounded corners in guards from your drill bits and not worry about enlarging where your guard fits working in a corner for example

[@redwolfknives3174]

Loved seeing the finish blade during the challenge. Seeing more of your process makes me like it even more! Beautiful work!

[@Aleeknives]

Awesome! Cheers

[@SZGRINDERS]

appreciation for the video. even though the handle doesn't match. The keris is the original weapon of the Javanese tribe in Central Java, Indonesia, the following can be considered to make the Kujang, the original weapon of the Sundanese tribe in West Java, Indonesia.

[@Aleeknives]

Glad you know what your talking about😉 I am no historian

[@dlbknives4869]

Absolutely amazing!!! Well done!!

[@Aleeknives]

Thank you!

[@JohnSmith-gs4lw]

Regarding smacking your anvil at 2:30 I mentioned something to John at Black Bear Forge after watching him do an incredible peen. I think he was making a shovel or something and was swinging his favorite diagonal peen with surgical precision. The true mark of an expert (or craftsman) is doing something difficult so well that nobody even knows how incredibly hard it is. Not just “making it look easy” but actually making it look like absolutely nothing. It’s not nothing. It comes with thousands of reps, and great deal of skill.

[@eduardovazquez9681]

Hello...wonderful work...can you tell me with what product you achieve that dark color on the guard?...thank you very much for your contributions.

[@Aleeknives]

Your welcome! I use oxpho blue from brownells

[@richardbranton2780]

That thing turned out absolutely amazing!!!!!!! By far my favorite. I getting ready to buy a mini mill from proxxon or however you spell it LOL. Anybody know if that is a good mill? I think it will work fine for knives that's all I'm going to use it for

[@Aleeknives]

Thanks Richard! I don’t know anything about that mill. Sorry

[@willardjames2685]

how much would you sell something as amazing as this for?

[@noneyabidness9644]

I've always wondered what the advantages were of a cross guard over hand guards, or rounded guards, like tsubas. Is it just aesthetics, or are there functional differences.

[@sudo_nym]

Cracking job mate! I gotta ask though…have you ever had more than 35 people in your garage? 😂 🤜🏻💥🤛🏻

[@Aleeknives]

I have never exceeded the maximum 😉

[@alexshaw2823]

Random question where did you get your stamp made that you use to stamp all your knives

[@Aleeknives]

I made it from 01 tool steel and a dremel tool

[@brianmansfield1777]

Hey Airin. Just watching your vids again. Everything good with you? Haven’t seen you online in a while

[@TWKKNIVES]

how did you black out the fittings?

[@derangedmetalworks9489]

Did my wife order a knife? Keri is her name lol.

[@Aleeknives]

🤣😂

[@berlinwebster1369]

Could I send you my knife and you make me a kydex sheath for my 8 inch getber fix blade . tu

[@Aleeknives]

No sir, I do not do custom work