Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 171: Making a New Knife

The money from selling the vase was just enough for Tian Chuan to repay Qi Gang's debts, and now Tian Chuan was debt-free and light, and the money in his hand could be spent with confidence.

The next day, Li Feng's wood carving was cleaned up, and he immediately identified the material of the wood carving, which turned out to be really red sandalwood, and it was not ordinary red sandalwood, it was an extremely rare red sandalwood nodua, that is, red sandalwood gall wood, and its value was much more valuable than ordinary red sandalwood.

In addition, after the joint appraisal of Zhang Lao and Li Feng, it was confirmed that the age of this Zhong Kui should be in the early to mid-Ming Dynasty, which was determined according to the carving style of wood carving. At the same time, Tagawa also commissioned them to carry out carbon-14 measurements on the wood carvings, and the age was also 310 years, which is similar to the age identified by the two experts. Later, Ying Qichen of the auction house made an estimate of this red sandalwood gall wood carving, confirming that its value was about 20 to 250,000 yuan.

For Tian Chuan's small pastel bowl of the Qing Dynasty, Ying Qichen also gave an estimate, about 20,000 yuan. Tian Chuan liked this small bowl very much, and he didn't lack this money, so he kept the small bowl in his hand, replaced the Jun kiln vase, and placed it on the treasure shelf in the study.

There was a large stack of dishes from many years, and Tagawa did not waste them, and he was going to give them to the rural museum in the village, which was still more suitable for the style of that museum. Two of these bowls have traces of curium patching on them, one of which is a large bowl that was once broken into three pieces and then joined together. This ancient craft has long been lost, and it is also a mark of old life in the rural museum.

In this way, Tian Chuan has successfully picked up leaks in Panjiayuan many times in a row, and they are all big leaks, and they are rumored to be miraculous in the antique world in the capital. He estimated that he would not be able to go to Panjiayuan again in the near future, and he was afraid that he would be recognized as soon as he got there, and he would not be able to buy anything. His search for materials for knives had to be taken a different path.

Tagawa finally thought of him, and through him, he bought some beautifully patterned wood corners, as well as some bones and horns, which he used to make the hilt or scabbard of the knife. He asked Lin Wenlan to come forward and helped him buy a few ash rods for self-defense. I also bought a thick piece of raw buffalo leather, which is very useful for making scabbards.

With the materials, Tagawa devoted himself to his great business of making knives.

He took some time to equip his first little straight knife with two scabbards, one for the pants to put in the confession pocket, and made a special opening at the bottom of the confession, put the scabbard in it, tied it with the specially fitted strap in the pocket, and then inserted the knife in/inconspicuous. It's very inconvenient to just walk around or do other activities when the knife is thrown around.

He added an elastic strap to the upper and lower ends of the scabbard, tied it to the big / leg, and fixed the scabbard, and the problem was solved. After loading the knife, he tried to move his body, and found that the strap tied to his leg still had a certain effect on the movement, and after repeatedly adjusting the tightness of the strap, he finally found a balance. The knife is not conspicuous and the impact on leg movement is minimized.

The other scabbard is placed under the ribs of the waist, and can be tied to the shoulder with a belt, somewhat like a holster under the armpit, and the knife can be easily drawn by reaching into the arms.

The sleeve that he was going to make to lengthen the handle of the knife was given up after thinking about it. There are very few opportunities to be able to use this knife, and even fewer opportunities to use a handle sleeve. He also had to practice and adapt to the use of this knife, changing the shape of the handle at will, which was not conducive to the use of the knife.

The next thing to do is the knife stick. The drawings have been drawn, as long as they are processed according to the drawings.

The sword in the stick is a purely fighting weapon, and it may be used as a machete, but it is certainly not very useful. He didn't want to put too much effort into this sword, so he could make it into a corresponding shape with the right steel, and sharpen it a little sharper. The toughness of this sword is better, and the sharpness is as long as it is average, anyway, when fighting, thorns are the main thing, and chopping is secondary, and the cutting function is dispensable. Even if there are some gaps when used, it will not affect its combat effectiveness.

He chose the load-bearing spring steel plate on the truck, and the processing process was basically the same as the first small straight knife. It's just that the final quenching process is missing. The spring steel plate was originally fired, and the hardness reached more than 62 degrees on the Rockwell scale, which was enough to be used as a sword. As mentioned at the beginning, the blade will be brittle at such a high hardness, and it is easy to chipping when used. Therefore, he designed the shape of the blade to be thicker, and the angle of the blade at the end of the blade was also larger, reaching 60 degrees, making the blade stronger. The disadvantage of this is that it sacrifices the sharpness of the blade, and if it is used to cut something, it is obvious that the blade is not fast at all.

Another difference in the making process of this sword is the design of the hilt. Because it is to be made into a knife stick, the hilt of the sword cannot be made into a clamp like the handle of a small straight knife, but it is narrowed at the handle and the handle is put on from the tail. This is also for the convenience of processing, the hardness of the spring steel plate is too high, and if you punch the hole, it will be much more difficult than punching the small straight knife. The use of clamp handle for straight knives can maximize the strength of the handle, and even if the handle of the heavy sword is narrowed, it is strong enough, so there is no need to make a clamping handle.

Therefore, after the rough processing of the blade is completed, Tagawa stacks the stainless steel plates, copper plates, leather soaked in tung oil, and deer antlers cut into slices of materials used to make the handle, and then glues them together layer by layer until the thickness reaches the length of the handle. Before stacking the handles, he had made a hole in the middle of each piece of material according to the shape of the handle, so that the handle would not shake too much when it was placed on the handle.

After the handle is stacked, after the glue has solidified and the material is firmly glued together, Tagawa removes the handle from the knife blank, punches a small hole on each side of the middle cutting hole, and rivets it tightly with rivets, so that he does not worry about the handle falling apart during use. After the handle of the knife blank is partially annealed, the blank of the tool handle is loaded, the tail of the knife blank is struck to deform it, and the tool handle is tightly jammed, and the tool handle is installed.

Next, the handle of the knife is coarsely sharpened, and a rough appearance is first obtained, and the riveting part of the end of the handle is also sampled and smoothed, and the heavy sword is almost done. There is a deep blood groove on each side of the spine of the sword, and the blades on both sides are cold and shining, full of deterrence. The weight of the sword reached 2.7 kilograms, and it was just right to swing it with one hand with Tagawa's strength.

At the other end of the stick is a long hunting knife. Unlike the epee, which is used as a weapon, this knife is mainly used as a tool knife. Due to the limitations of the scabbard as a stick, the hunting knife could not be made into a curved shape like an ordinary hunting knife, but only in the form of a straight knife, and the designed shape was more similar to the modern *, only a little wider than the bayonet. The front end of the one-sided blade is curved, which is the basic feature of hunting knives, and it is used for peeling and cutting meat. The back of the knife is designed with some serrations that can be used to saw something. A secondary blade is designed on the front and back of the blade to enhance its effect when stabbed.

This knife is made differently from the previous two swords in that it is not made by pure cold working, but is forged using medium carbon tool steel. Finally, the cutting edge is carburized to increase the local hardness of the cutting edge and improve the sharpness of the knife.

After the blank is calcined, the knife shape and blade shape are first coarsely ground, then carburizing at high temperatures, and finally the local quenching of the blade. The biggest advantage of the knife processed in this way is that the blade has good flexibility and is not easy to break, while the blade is very sharp.

The handle design of the hunting knife is also novel, and it is an integrated structure that is forged together with the blade. The handle is hollow, and there is a plug on the head, and the hollow handle can be used to hold some small things for emergency use. Since the handle is a steel monolithic structure, there is no need to make a special handle, only need to cover the surface with a layer of leather to cover up the texture of the metal. This leather is made of the same snakeskin as the scabbard in order to make the whole stick look as a whole.

The body of the composite scabbard used at both ends is made of wood, and the surface is first covered with a layer of raw cowhide, and finally a layer of snakeskin for decoration. At each end of the scabbard, a copper hoop is added, which can not only add strength to the scabbard, but also serve as decoration. These two circles of copper hoops are also the circlip used when drawing knives, and the copper hoops are pushed through a certain distance to the middle part of the scabbard, so that the stuck knives can be unlocked and the knives drawn out of the sheath.

The tail of the handle on both sides has a relatively thin section with a length of about 2 cm, which looks a little strange. This section has a big effect, that is, it can insert the unsheathed sword into the scabbard in reverse and turn it into a long-handled sword, which greatly improves the combat effectiveness.

After a few days of hard work, the knife stick was finally ready. The total weight of this knife and stick is 4.6 kilograms, which would be quite difficult for ordinary people to use, but Tagawa, a strong man, is just right when he holds it in his hand, and it can be used with one hand, making it difficult to suspect its huge weight.

After the production was completed, Tagawa wanted to create some moves for this knife stick. Generally, the tricks of short stick weapons can be used on this knife stick, and the moves of the separated heavy sword and hunting knife are also ready-made for reference. It's just that when the sword is inserted back into the scabbard, it becomes a very rare Qimen weapon, and it needs its own unique tricks.

In ancient times, there was a kind of weapon with blades at both ends and a handle in the middle, which was named "two-handed belt", and the grip method when using it was to hold both hands in the middle, and the tiger's mouth of the two hands was opposite, and they were held to a position close to the blade. The handle in the middle is used to block the opponent's weapons, and the blades at both ends are mainly used to tease and stab. The use of this weapon is not known for its strength, and its tricks are relatively feminine, making it difficult to guard against. After thinking about it, Tagawa decided to practice mainly in this usage.