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Knife makers sometimes use small slabs of wood for knife
scales; These are attached to the tang of the knife with
epoxy and pins.
These knives are implanted tang-first into young trees and
are allowed to be consumed by the tree. The knife tree is
then cut down and allowed to dry. The knives
are cut out
and the handles are shaped and formed from the wood
surrounding the blanks.
The Garden of Weapons
https://www.fantast...rden-of-weapons.htm
Prior Art ? [8th of 7, May 14 2019]
Arborsmith image.
https://static1.squ...ols.jpg?format=750w
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 14 2019]
[link]
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How do you prevent corrosion ? |
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The tang will need to penetrate the sapwood, which will be wet and have compounds in solution that may attack the metal. |
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The blade isn't a problem as it can be left unfinished and subsequently ground to profile (and can be dipped in polymer anyway) but the tang needs to be exposed metal. |
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And don't suggest stainless steel, please ... stainless blades don't keep an edge. |
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Weld a carbon steel blank to a stainless tang. |
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I'd be more concerned about the wood splitting as it dries, or otherwise being structurally less sound than a cut billet. |
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//How do you prevent corrosion ?// - make a ceramic knife? |
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This idea would work better with tools such as scythes, pickaxes and adzes where the haft passes through a hole in the blade; just hang the blade over a suitable branch and let it grow into a very tight fit. |
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Don't trees produce callus around injuries? If so, it won't be
much good as part of a knife scale. |
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A field of trees fruiting axeheads, surreal. |
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Surreal, but not without precedent (of a sort). |
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Also baked but not widely known to exist by the Arborsmith folks. [link] |
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They say just lean any old shovel-head or un handled tool up against a sapling... and wait. |
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