{"id":2374,"date":"2013-10-28T23:10:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2013-10-29T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T21:50:09","slug":"nazgul-holdout-stiletto-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"Nazgul Holdout Stiletto – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, now for something a bit different. \u00a0I came up with this idea watching the Lord of the Rings movies, and was picturing the head Nazgul (the Witch King) sitting in the bar playing poker with his minions, and wondering what sort of weaponry such a gambler might employ to deal with a minion who was winning too frequently. \u00a0I don’t picture a Nazgul as being very happy losing at poker. \u00a0 Here’s the result of that muse…..
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\n<\/a>Above, I’ve begun to make a Blacksmith Cube Twist, also sometimes called a Rubik’s Cube Twist, in a quarter inch scquare piece of W! high carbon steel. \u00a0It begins by cutting deep grooves in the center of each of the four faces of the bar. \u00a0Click here for an excellent YouTube video by Gary Huston, a British blacksmith, making one of these twists.
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\n<\/a>Once the grooves were cut, I used a jeweler’s saw to saw down to the bottom of the grooves on two opposite corners. \u00a0These will form the cubes during the twist.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>And, here is the twist completed, in this case a full 360 degrees. \u00a0Next, I’ll begin forging the blade end. \u00a0I’m shooting for a smaller version sort of like my Dragonslayer Spike Poniard and Reliquary (click here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, now for something a bit different. \u00a0I came up with this idea watching the Lord of the Rings movies, and was picturing the head Nazgul (the Witch King) sitting in the bar playing poker with his minions, and wondering … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,5,27],"tags":[9,8,3,7,4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qLAy-Ci","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2931,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2931","url_meta":{"origin":2374,"position":0},"title":"Dragonsbane Poniard – Part 1","date":"March 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, the Nazgul Holdout Stiletto met with such success that I succumbed to the Bladegallery.com folks suggesting I make a really big and scary one. \u00a0This one is a dragonslayer's poniard, basically an armor piercing dagger designed to penetrate through a dragon's tough and thick scales. This one is more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dragonsbane_Poniard_1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2399,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2399","url_meta":{"origin":2374,"position":1},"title":"Nazgul Holdout Stiletto \u2013 Part 3","date":"November 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Continuing on, I've been working on the pommel of the blade carving a Nazgul helmet on the four-sided taper. Above, I've engraved the guide lines on all four sides, with spooky helmet on the \"front,\" and the icky \"winged beasty\" on the back. Here's the Nazgul from the front -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2432,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2432","url_meta":{"origin":2374,"position":2},"title":"Nazgul Holdout Stiletto \u2013 Part 5","date":"November 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, I finally finished up the sheath for this little dagger. Above you can see the leather liner and the small piece of goat rawhide I'll use for the outside. \u00a0I'll have to soak the rawhide in warm water for a while to soften it enough to bend around the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Morghul_Stilletto_Spike.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2388,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2388","url_meta":{"origin":2374,"position":3},"title":"Nazgul Holdout Stiletto \u2013 Part 2","date":"October 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I finished twisting and forging the blade and handle, so above is the result. \u00a0The entire dagger is about 8 inches long, and should appear above at full size in your monitor (I hope...). Above, I carved my usual handle\/blade transition, and added four regular skulls around the base. \u00a0For\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2417,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2417","url_meta":{"origin":2374,"position":4},"title":"Nazgul Holdout Stiletto \u2013 Part 4","date":"November 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Now it's time to make a sheath for this dagger. \u00a0I'm (loosely) basing the sheath on the Bell Dirks. \u00a0Bell Dirks are contemporaries of of the famous Bowie knives, and were highly decorated, long slim daggers typically carried by gamblers and other \"gentlemen.\" \u00a0The sheaths had a \"frog\" (button) that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Morghul_Stilletto_Spike_17.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1857,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=1857","url_meta":{"origin":2374,"position":5},"title":"Dragonslayer Spike Poniard and Reliquary","date":"October 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"My latest major project, the Dragonslayer Spike Poniard and Reliquary\u00a0(and The Project From Hell). I guess you can call it finished, but it turned into one of those projects where it became more abandoned than completed - it just kept insisting that I add another element, then another, then another\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Dragonslayer_Poniard_Web_3.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}