{"id":2857,"date":"2014-03-10T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2014-03-10T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T14:43:28","slug":"helheim-dagger-in-knapped-steel-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Helheim Dagger in Knapped Steel – Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAfter a lot of design pain I’ve finally come up with a design for this side of the knife – One-eyed Odin. \u00a0Above, you can see the design transferred to the knife scale, ready to begin the engraving process.<\/p>\n

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\nAbove, I’ve engraved all of the major lines and begun the gold inlay process. \u00a0On one side of Odin’s helmet you can see a mostly completed 24 karat gold inlay, and on the right side you can see a pocket I cut out for the other inlay. \u00a0Incidentally, this inlay is too wide for a single gold wire, so I’m using a technique of inlaying parallel gold wires into the pocket, and them hammering them down into undercut grooves. \u00a0Above the surface, the gold will run across the surface and run into the adjacent gold wire. \u00a0As long as I keep the gold pretty clean, the separate wires will cold weld together and result in a really strong and wide band of 24 karat gold.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Above, I’ve completed both gold inlays, and also removed and textured the backgrounds. \u00a0On Odin’s helmet, I’ve chosen a bold texture for the relieved background, and a finely stippled background for the Celtic ribbons of Odin’s beard.<\/p>\n

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, I’ll begin placing in carefully thought out and very tiny shading lines, which will really make the engraving pop to life.<\/p>\n

Thanks for Looking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a lot of design pain I’ve finally come up with a design for this side of the knife – One-eyed Odin. \u00a0Above, you can see the design transferred to the knife scale, ready to begin the engraving process. Above, … 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":[5,18],"tags":[8,3,7,17,16,21,4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qLAy-K5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2917,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2917","url_meta":{"origin":2857,"position":0},"title":"Helheim Dagger in Knapped Steel – Part 5","date":"March 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Now it's time to work on the Hel side of the Helheim Dagger. \u00a0I can't claim sole authorship of the Hel design - my daughter has done a lot (most?) of that work. \u00a0I've been stymied for a while on this side, and my she solidified the design and came\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Engraved Knife"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/decapitated_head.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2957,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2957","url_meta":{"origin":2857,"position":1},"title":"Helheim Dagger in Knapped Steel – Gold Inlays – Part 6","date":"March 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I tackled the gold inlays on Hel's robe. \u00a0This is always a stressful time, and a major effort for me in the process. I chose to inlay the areas in parallel gold wires, since these are mostly long and skinny locations. \u00a0I began by excavating a shallow pocket, then\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Engraved Knife"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Helheim_Dagger_47.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3657,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3657","url_meta":{"origin":2857,"position":2},"title":"“Greenman in Autumn” Pendant Dagger, Part 1","date":"December 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0\u00a0 Above images courtesy of Bladegallery.com Beginning a new project - a tiny pendant dagger in my signature \"Knapped Steel\" style. Here it's been cut out from 1084 carbon steel. Decreasing weight of the dagger, left to right - drilling areas in handle - jeweler's saw cutting through the web\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/93308_3_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3682,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3682","url_meta":{"origin":2857,"position":3},"title":"“Greenman in Autumn” Pendant Dagger, Part 2","date":"December 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I started the engraving by cutting all the major lines. Next I'll inlay gold wire into the Celtic beard... Inlaying gold wire, from top left clockwise - undercutting the line (blue arrows) - hammering in wire - more hammering - all wire in place Clockwise from upper left - scraping\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pendant_Dagger_121.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2908,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2908","url_meta":{"origin":2857,"position":4},"title":"Helheim Dagger in Knapped Steel – Part 4","date":"March 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I'm finishing up the engraving on the Odin side of the Helheim Dagger. Above, I've finished shading the Celtic knots of Odin's beard and the little Celtic ornament at the bottom. \u00a0I've added a little temporary Sharpie\u2122 inking just to see how things will look. \u00a0You can see the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Engraved Knife"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Helheim_Dagger_42.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2965,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2965","url_meta":{"origin":2857,"position":5},"title":"Helheim Dagger in Knapped Steel – Part 7","date":"March 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I'm finishing up the engraving on the Hel side of the dagger. \u00a0Above, I've removed the background, using what I call a \"scribble\" texture for the cloth of her robe, and I've used a tiny four-sided point to stipple the non-cloth areas (see around her dead eye, and between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Engraved Knife"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Helheim_Dagger_54.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857"}],"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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}