JBrandvik
Elite Cafe Member
I am working on a custom folding knife with top bolsters only. The bolsters are nickel silver. I have cut an interlaced scroll design and I wanted to use tear-dropped folded leaves.
I am having a difficult time getting nice, smooth tear drops in my leaf folds. I have tried everything in the arsonal, (Round, 120, 90 and knife). Any advise on the best tools and techniques? I have tried attacking the tear drops from the fat end (bottom) and from the top and the results are both ragged looking.
The leaves on this project are already cut and the design is fairly complex with roughly 20 leaves per bolster. They are only about 2mm wide on average, restricting the bottom of the tear drop about .25 mm so I don't have too much room to play with.
I have considered trying a little punch to define the bottom of the drop, but I don't want to raise an edge around the punch mark.
Your help is mucho appreciated.
I am having a difficult time getting nice, smooth tear drops in my leaf folds. I have tried everything in the arsonal, (Round, 120, 90 and knife). Any advise on the best tools and techniques? I have tried attacking the tear drops from the fat end (bottom) and from the top and the results are both ragged looking.
The leaves on this project are already cut and the design is fairly complex with roughly 20 leaves per bolster. They are only about 2mm wide on average, restricting the bottom of the tear drop about .25 mm so I don't have too much room to play with.
I have considered trying a little punch to define the bottom of the drop, but I don't want to raise an edge around the punch mark.
Your help is mucho appreciated.