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This is my praying mantis pocket knife. I have to say that I am quite proud of this as it took me a lot of work. I apologize that the last two photos are redundant but I wanted to show the size compared to my hands.

This was one of those projects that everything that could go wrong did. The silver got contaminated with something else in the crucible when I cast my pieces so the metal was discolored and cracked more easily so that caused many problems. The patina was supposed to be green and it started out that way but became more turquoise than anything else(which I think looks fine).I haven't had time to make a proper blade out of damascus so right now its just a piece of nickel thats been shaped as a temporary blade.

I think my main complaint is that it doesn't have antenna, it would've snagged on too many things and been hard to solder on so I left them out and I think it looks kind of weird because of that.

Description
This is my praying mantis pocket knife. I have to say that I am quite proud of this as it took me a lot of work. I apologize that the last two photos are redundant but I wanted to show the size compared to my hands.

This was one of those projects that everything that could go wrong did. The silver got contaminated with something else in the crucible when I cast my pieces so the metal was discolored and cracked more easily so that caused many problems. The patina was supposed to be green and it started out that way but became more turquoise than anything else(which I think looks fine).I haven't had time to make a proper blade out of damascus so right now its just a piece of nickel thats been shaped as a temporary blade.

I think my main complaint is that it doesn't have antenna, it would've snagged on too many things and been hard to solder on so I left them out and I think it looks kind of weird because of that.