{"id":1973,"date":"2013-04-19T20:47:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2013-04-19T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:47:02","slug":"blacksmith-caterpillar-knife-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"Blacksmith Caterpillar Knife – Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Now that I’ve removed the knife from it’s holding medium, I notice the caterpillar has a bad case of the “squares.” \u00a0I need to round it’s top edges over a little more.<\/p>\n

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\nThere, that’s better. \u00a0Now for the other side.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>And, above, is the other side completely carved, rounded and smoothed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I’ve removed the knife from it’s holding medium, I notice the caterpillar has a bad case of the “squares.” \u00a0I need to round it’s top edges over a little more. There, that’s better. \u00a0Now for the other side. … 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],"tags":[9,3,7,17,16,4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qLAy-vP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1966,"url":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=1966","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":0},"title":"Blacksmith Caterpillar Knife – Part 2","date":"April 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Above is the caterpillar after initial carving with small carbide burrs. \u00a0 And here, I've used small punches to smooth over all the hills and valleys of the caterpillar's side. \u00a0I've also done a preliminary darkening of the steel just to get an idea of how it will look when\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Engraved Knife"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Blacksmith_Caterpillar_Knife_5.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1954,"url":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=1954","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":1},"title":"Blacksmith Caterpillar Knife","date":"April 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another strange idea I came up with. \u00a0This little knife is based upon a class of knives called \"Blacksmith Knives\" or sometimes \"Viking Woman's Knives.\" \u00a0These come down to us through antiquity, and were generally just simple (and inexpensive) utility knives roughly forged out by the local blacksmith. \u00a0There\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Blacksmith_Caterpillar_Knife_1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1979,"url":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=1979","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":2},"title":"Blacksmith Caterpillar Knife – Part 4","date":"April 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the last post I hardened and tempered the little knife, and spent some time getting the scale and crud from the heat treating process off of it. Now it's time to add some gold highlights. \u00a0Above, I've engraved a small decorative line, and undercut the bottom on each side.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Blacksmith_Caterpillar_Knife_12.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3302,"url":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3302","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":3},"title":"William Henry “Engraved Longhorn Beetle Knife” Part 7","date":"July 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Well Buy Modafinil Without Prescription , here's Side A finished, following some gold inlay for spots on the beetle. \u00a0Now it's on to Side B. \u00a0No rest for the wicked! Thanks for looking!","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5685,"url":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=5685","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":4},"title":"WESN Knife Koi Tutorial","date":"May 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019m baaaaack! Starting a Japanese-style koi engraving on a sweet little WESN folding knife. The Grade 5 titanium (6Al4V) scale is pretty tough stuff, but this little neck knife is so nice I\u2019ll suffer through! Adding 24 karat gold inlays and removing the background on the Grade 5 titanium WESN\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TomSterling_WESN_Knife_Koi_6.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3347,"url":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3347","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":5},"title":"William Henry “Engraved Longhorn Beetle Knife” Finished","date":"July 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Above Kup Flagyl bez recepty , I've completed the gold inlay, and cut the details in the antennae. \u00a0This image is before the final patina. Above are detail shots of the more important elements. And overall views of the final pieces. Thanks for looking!","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"William_Henry_B10_Longhorn_Beetle_Detail","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/William_Henry_B10_Longhorn_Beetle_Detail.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}