Edwin Wise

Friday! Ahhh, friday...

I should spell-check or, at least, re-read my posts. I find dropped letters and stuff when I review 'em... but then again, I'm not sure how much I care.

I bet this thing has a spell-check option. Maybe I'll look for it later.

Hey, it's Friday! I don't think I have enough to do this weekend...

(kidding)

Yesterday I cleaned up the (a) real, (b) trick, and (c) spare knife blades for Deadbacks. The person who designed the trick knife, and who I took the knives from because I can't help medling, started disguise work on them by filling in some blade details. After all, we don't want them to be obviously one brand or another of knife on screen -- apparently people are picky about product placement.

Anyway, there was a sizable application of JB Weld to fill these holes. So I filed the bulk of THAT off and then used a course polishing wheel on the flexshaft to clean up the rest. I then laid a thin layer of metalic epoxy (I seemed to be out of JB weld; how could I let that happen!?) over it to fill in some bubbles and level the fill.

Today I get to gently file it flat (so it's not wobbly) and then polish and paint it all. With any luck, we'll have three identical blades that aren't brand-specific in their shape.

Then I re-assemble the "real" one.

I may re-mount the "fixed" one, that is supposed to be stabbed into Victoria's chest... the mounting it already has is good, but the metal is a bit thick and long for easy of hiding. But it may be fine.

Then I make the "trick" sliding one. The trick originator joined two pieces of acrylic into a sheath for this that I may use... but I think I need to reshape them so this is actually the same basic shape as the orignal knife. My hope, however, is to use my nifty workshop full of tools to make the knife blade actually slide in the actual knife body. This should be possible...

I'm thinking of milling one (or maybe two) tracks in each handle half and then putting matching protrusions on the blade that fit into these tracks. Then it's just like a sliding door in a track.

There are complications, of course, but I'll burn those bridges when I get to them.

I'm not sure why I have a third blade, but I'm not going to complain. It's handy... and it comes with the spare handle I need for my attempt at the trick knife.

Hmmm... Oh, and I will be making the bulk of the prosthetic leg molds this weekend. I'll be wearing my sculpting hat a lot.

Posted by Edwin at May 13, 2005 09:20 AM