
Robby Duke
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- Birthday 09/10/1997
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Reading, Programming, Smithing, Motorsports, Learning
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These are my third and fourth knives. They are 1095 kitchen knives that I made for my house. One I thought was more of a general pairing/utility knife and the other is a chef's knife. Both use red oak as the handle material and do not have handle pins, just epoxy. What do you think?
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Up for grabs, a pair of kitchen knives I recently made. One is a 9-inch tip to tip pairing knife the blade itself is 4.5 inches and made out of 1/8 inch 1095 steel, nice and sturdy feel for peeling things and chopping stuff. The other knife is a chef's knife made from 1095 steel, it is 12 inches tip to tip and features a 7 inch blade. Both handles come from the same block of red oak, one appears darker due to lighting and age of the tung oil. I made the pairing knife several weeks ago and only recently finished the chef's knife. Both have very good edges for kitchen work on them and th
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What kind of putty is that that you've applied to the spine in photo #3? It appears to be acidic by the pattern it left in photo #4.
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My first blade ever, forged from a ball joint puller
Robby Duke replied to Bill Breslin's topic in Show and Tell
What kind of steel is it made out of? I like design, very nice handle material. I think oak is one of the nicer looking woods for a handle. -
Beautiful knifes, I prefer the lighter color patterns of the handle in the first photo. Awesome job
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Thank you everyone! I took most of my time primarily thinking it through and watching people make knifes in videos online and then planning how I want mine to turn out. I must say it did come out closely to how I imagined it. I appreciate the warm welcome from the community
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Using the wood charcoal pieces I started a fire and used a hair dryer to get it up to temperature. Once the steel became non-magnetic I quenched it in hydraulic oil from our tractors.
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Simple 1095 kitchen knife, I haven't really polished the blade up too nicely. I got in a rush and wanted to put the handle on lol. All in all it didn't come out too horrible? I think it was a respectable first blade.