Knifemaking Tuesdays Week 49 - Eagle Scout engraving Media
Published: 11 years ago
I show how I engraved an Eagle Scout logo onto two of my early Norseman knives.
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This was really fun to do! All throughout my teens I was in the Boy Scouts of America, it was a pretty huge part of my life, and by the time I turned 18 I had achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, the top honor. Boy Scouts (and my uncle) brought me into the world of pocket knives, and from the age of 11 I carried one every single day.
A customer of mine bought two early Norseman Knives, one for his son as an Eagle Scout gift, and one for himself. We chatted and he requested that I engraved the Eagle logo onto the handle of both knives. Because I always like to make things more complicated and awesome than they need to be, I decided to do a pretty fancy engraving and make it multiple colors! Since the knives are already finished and pretty, I used Dykem to mask the original color so that it would not be affected by the new engraving and anodizing process. Dykem worked pretty well as a masking agent as long as it's laid on thick and the metal is REALLY clean! Otherwise the anodizing leaked through. This engraving process took several hours to complete but it was a lot of fun, and the results were definitely worth it.
Thanks for watching!
www.GrimsmoKnives.com
www.JohnGrimsmo.com/newsletter.htm
This was really fun to do! All throughout my teens I was in the Boy Scouts of America, it was a pretty huge part of my life, and by the time I turned 18 I had achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, the top honor. Boy Scouts (and my uncle) brought me into the world of pocket knives, and from the age of 11 I carried one every single day.
A customer of mine bought two early Norseman Knives, one for his son as an Eagle Scout gift, and one for himself. We chatted and he requested that I engraved the Eagle logo onto the handle of both knives. Because I always like to make things more complicated and awesome than they need to be, I decided to do a pretty fancy engraving and make it multiple colors! Since the knives are already finished and pretty, I used Dykem to mask the original color so that it would not be affected by the new engraving and anodizing process. Dykem worked pretty well as a masking agent as long as it's laid on thick and the metal is REALLY clean! Otherwise the anodizing leaked through. This engraving process took several hours to complete but it was a lot of fun, and the results were definitely worth it.
Thanks for watching!