Some of you more adept folk might have noticed my recent rather absurb interest in Firefly/Serenity props...This was spurred on by the Sidkit Blaster...
Ive attacked that project full force and also taken on collecting several other props; Jaynes knife, Jaynes hat, shirt and necklace as well as printing out my own 'verse money after purchasing the QMx money, i wasnt very impressed.... i like my own better than theres...
anyway.....
I have been a Firefly fan for a few years now but only recently taken to gettin the props..... (and also talking Joss-talk) but one prop that has really stuck out to me for a while is the very distinct stag handled bowie knife that Jayne has in "Jaynestown".... in practically every other episode of the series and the movie, he has the trademark Henry Libery bowie, but for whatever unexplained reason he has a very interesting bowie in this one episode..... It appears to be made from a wood rasp with the square markings on the flats of the blade being a tell-tell sign...... however after close inspection, they seem a bit TOO symetrical to be a REAL rasp blade....
My good friend Earl Blackmore, whos also a firefly flan were discussing this knife and have decided to take it up as a project.... Earl is a talented swordsmith who has done some really excellant knives as well...... including a set of important butterfly swords for me, but ill make another thread out of that topic....
anyway, Earl was kind enough to do some research of his own and came up with this design....... this is sort of a work in progress and will no doubt change thru out its making..... hopefully to be more accurate, but anyway this is what we have so far......
This is going to be an expensive project, but the end result will be a VERY functional REAL bowie knife that has been hand forge and all hand made.
The handle WILL be made of real stag, and be matched as closely as possible to the one in the Show...... The blade will probably be forged and the pattern, we are thinking, will be easier to "fake it" than to use a rasp.
Rasps are made out of all kindsa steel , some good, some bad..... tracking down a rasp made of decent steel AND with the correct pattern may be more trouble than its worth.....
Ive attacked that project full force and also taken on collecting several other props; Jaynes knife, Jaynes hat, shirt and necklace as well as printing out my own 'verse money after purchasing the QMx money, i wasnt very impressed.... i like my own better than theres...
anyway.....
I have been a Firefly fan for a few years now but only recently taken to gettin the props..... (and also talking Joss-talk) but one prop that has really stuck out to me for a while is the very distinct stag handled bowie knife that Jayne has in "Jaynestown".... in practically every other episode of the series and the movie, he has the trademark Henry Libery bowie, but for whatever unexplained reason he has a very interesting bowie in this one episode..... It appears to be made from a wood rasp with the square markings on the flats of the blade being a tell-tell sign...... however after close inspection, they seem a bit TOO symetrical to be a REAL rasp blade....
My good friend Earl Blackmore, whos also a firefly flan were discussing this knife and have decided to take it up as a project.... Earl is a talented swordsmith who has done some really excellant knives as well...... including a set of important butterfly swords for me, but ill make another thread out of that topic....
anyway, Earl was kind enough to do some research of his own and came up with this design....... this is sort of a work in progress and will no doubt change thru out its making..... hopefully to be more accurate, but anyway this is what we have so far......
This is going to be an expensive project, but the end result will be a VERY functional REAL bowie knife that has been hand forge and all hand made.
The handle WILL be made of real stag, and be matched as closely as possible to the one in the Show...... The blade will probably be forged and the pattern, we are thinking, will be easier to "fake it" than to use a rasp.
Rasps are made out of all kindsa steel , some good, some bad..... tracking down a rasp made of decent steel AND with the correct pattern may be more trouble than its worth.....
