Ron Hicks

Beautiful knife, Ron. Do you have any idea what the steel is?

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Im guessing maybe a plain cabon steel???

Ill try to take a better pic

Ron

I guess I must like Full Tang cuz I keep maken them

Bubinga Skinner

Over All 9 in.

Forged from 5160

Edge Quenched

Blade 1 in. at widest X 4 9/16

Full Tappered Tang

Bubinga Slab Handle

NS Pins & Guard

Black Fiber Spacer Materail

600 grt. Finish on Blade

Took Photo Outdoors

The blade is a little scuffed from sharpening

need to touch it up a little.

Let me know What You All Think

Ron

Guys

Hope you all dont mind that I post a couple more photos.

Im just about to go nuts not being able to work on knives, I crushed the tip of my thumb at work a while back.

Spear Point Bowie

Over All 11 3/4

Steel was Forged from a Model A Leaf Spring

Blade 1 9/16 X 7 3/8

Full Tappered Tang

Buffler Slab Handle

NS Pins

Gaurd is Coin Mokume

Red Spacer Materail

600grt. Finish on Blade

I took the photo outside

Let me know what You All Think

Ron

Guys I took another photo may not be much better.

I used some Simichrome Polish on it, looks like I left some on it in the photo.

I use Red Fiber Spacer Materail, it hard to see it was thin stuff. Thats whats under the polish I did not get off.

Ron

Hi All

This is the first time I have posted a knife I made hear &

Im way out classed by you guys in knife making & photos

thought I would let you all look at my last knife.

Forged 5160

Full Tappered Tang

13 in over all

Edge Quenched

Osage Orange Handle

NS Pins & Guard

The pics not to good - 600grt. finish on blade

Let me know what you think

Ron

Guys I took a new photo outside and uploaded to Dons server - Hope I have it sized right.

Terry

The knives look great :35:

Soooo how about the Grinder ??????

I want one but the wife never will say anything when I bring up the subject.

Ron

i like a  metal cutting bandsaw blade for my inlay chisels.haven't had a problem with them getting too hot while grinding the points.

 

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I would like to see a close up of the chisels.

Thanks

Ron

I like it

how did you do the handle?

Thank you

Ron

Slick Knife man thats is real nice

Ron

KMG

Is the grinder I want - If I were you I would save a few more $ and get the KMG.

I got in a hurry wish now I had save my $.

Ron

Whats ya got in that whastub for a linner ?

Might be hard on your blower motor turning it off and on all the time might wear out your starting capacitor.

Might want to fix some kind of blast gate.

Im not 100% sure but I think with the blast gate choking off the air the blower would run with less strain on the motor.

I wish I had your Blower

I bet it will cook up some steaks pretty quick

Ron

No, didn't check out every link, worried the video the supposedly had would be virus laden.  In my opinion Windows Media files are ripe for exploits.  Didn't want to risk them being able to spread this crap by my system.

 

--Carl

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I looked at 2 they were just pictures - so I may be virus laden now :banghead:

Carl

I checked it out your right what a load of CRAP!

Did you check out any of the so called Emails

Low Down Dirty #%^&*X

Ron

Bob

What are you talkin about thats Awasome :35:

your daughter did some Great work also :35:

Ron

What finished size do you all make your Tomahawks ( Eye & length width over all of the head )

When drifting the eye how long to you make the slit for the drift ?

Thanks

Ron

J. Keeton

Thats a BIGN

I try to buy old hammers when I find them . I have a few 6-8 pound sledges Cross Pene , Straight Peen, 1 Double .

Thats a good thing, using something that belonged to your Grandfather :35:

RHGraham

I have been told that hammer size depends on how # of your anvil . To big a hammer for the anvil will do bad things to the anvil???

Ron

I bought the Rusty plans ( I thought there should be more to the plans}

What are you calling Krusty a beefed up Rusty ???

Can you post a picture?

Ron

Real Good Lookin Knife

is the Koa wood real hard? what would you compare it to?

Ron

After a hard day of Neo-Tribaling nothing should stand between a  Tribsman and his Grape Smirnoff except the cap. It's actually my wife's.

The handle on this bottle opener can easily double as a knife.

The 9" blade is 1/4" 5160. Or something close to it. In it's previous life it was a meer boring lawnmower blade from the City Yard of San Bernardino Co. Ca.

 

Plowshares back into swords I say!

 

Handle is curing as I type. Edge goes on tomorrow.

 

Nice Burn eh....I F*&^%$G caught on fire like a branded steer!

 

It's all for the craft. Repeat like a Mantra.

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Good lookin knife opener-

Your Hand doesnt look to good , looks Med-Well Done Ouch! you touched somethin really really hot looks like it seared the flesh, did it stick to your hand? dnag it I bet that one hurts

Ron

Sorry, we won't be splitting any toads clean here, my child... or will we?

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Splitting toads Good

Can someone tell me how to etch a blade ?

I have it sanded to 600grt. 5160 edged quenched . I tried Naval Jelly for about 5 min.

I plan on useing J.B. Weld on my guard instead of solder will wipe the blade with actone.

Any tips on assembly after etching?

Can I hand polish with Simichrome Polish ?

Thanks Ron

Wonderful ! you guys have any more Tomahawk pictures ???????

I think we all would like to see more

Great Work Guys

Ron

Not for sure but to peen the pins dont the holes need to be bigger than the pin stock ??

Hi all I am new here

I love the old black & white Gunsmoke.

One of the episodes Fustus gril freind seen a fur trader murdered by one of his employees with a knife.

The knife looked like it had a braided leather handle. I thought it looked pretty good and would like to make one.

Has anyone seen such a thing or maybe a picture?

Thanks Ron

I have a Peter wright anvil, about 200 pounds. But it has seen alot of use, edges chipped and sway backed. Would it be possible to have a 1 inch thick plate of 4140 or some other steel welded to the top to form a new surfase?

Ideas and  thoughts appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Tim

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Tim

Check this out might give you idea what needs to be done.

http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/anvil1/anvil2.html

Ron