JJ Simon Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 OK JJ, I'm making a grand assumption here, but what's the bloom process? lay down a bed of charcoal, pile the nails on it (randomly or organized stack? I assume randomly) Light it up and cover with more charcoal. turn the blower on and monitor, adding more charcoal as needed to get it to semi-consolidate Pull out the sponge and start forging Repeat as needed. Is that the crux of the biscuit? You build the fire and the coals all the way to the top of the hearth. So its full. Then you feed the material, whether nails, rebar, wrought of one sort or another in vertically. I ran 3-4 nails at a time. The material needs to be fed 2" from the tuyerre. So there is a buffer of coal and you are not blasting air directly on the material which would cause decarb. The material will melt and you can pull a piece out when its not completely melted and take a look just to see how it is doing. You can feed very little and make little wafers to stack or you can feed a lot like I did and make a sponge that will need to be reduced. So you feed,, then burn down the charcoal and fill it some more and feed material back and forth Very much the same process as smelting but not using a tall stack and not using ore. So the reduction distance and time is reduced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Simon Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 Well, we get to go back to the drawing board so to speak.I was not satisfied with the first heat treat which I did as an interrupted quench from water to oil.So I went back and quenched it in brine and interrupted it going back into the brine.And as is very common with this material I got a delam that I am not willing to mess with>So I will be starting over.Probably with something different as far as material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua States Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Bummer! Enjoying the journey though, I hope. “So I'm lightin' out for the territory, ahead of the scared and the weak and the mean spirited, because Aunt Sally is fixin’ to adopt me and civilize me, and I can't stand it. I've been there before.” The only bad experience is the one from which you learn nothing. Josh http://www.dosgatosdesignsllc.com/#! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdJMFMqnbLYqv965xd64vYg J.States Bladesmith | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dos.gatos.71 https://www.etsy.com/shop/JStatesBladesmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Simon Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 Yeah, no worries.I fail a lot. So I'm used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua States Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 The only truly bad experience, is the one from which you learn nothing. 1 “So I'm lightin' out for the territory, ahead of the scared and the weak and the mean spirited, because Aunt Sally is fixin’ to adopt me and civilize me, and I can't stand it. I've been there before.” The only bad experience is the one from which you learn nothing. Josh http://www.dosgatosdesignsllc.com/#! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdJMFMqnbLYqv965xd64vYg J.States Bladesmith | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dos.gatos.71 https://www.etsy.com/shop/JStatesBladesmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Simon Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 So back to the drawing board after the delam from the previous knife.So I took a farriers rasp. Available at my local hardware store.And I did a jelly roll weld. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Simon Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 After doing the jelly roll.I drew the bar out, folded and welded it.Drew it out again, cut and folded it and inserted a file.Welded that in San Mai style.Forged it out.Had a little bit of thinning at the end of the weld so I cut it off at a workable length.I have about 9X1/2X1.Will post forging photos later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Cruse Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Ferrier-roll Innnnnnteresting......... 2 Of the four elements, air, earth, water, and fire man stole only one from the gods. Fire. And with it, man forged his will upon the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua States Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Well that one looks pretty freakin' solid. “So I'm lightin' out for the territory, ahead of the scared and the weak and the mean spirited, because Aunt Sally is fixin’ to adopt me and civilize me, and I can't stand it. I've been there before.” The only bad experience is the one from which you learn nothing. Josh http://www.dosgatosdesignsllc.com/#! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdJMFMqnbLYqv965xd64vYg J.States Bladesmith | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dos.gatos.71 https://www.etsy.com/shop/JStatesBladesmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Simon Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 It seems more solid.I will grind the sides to check before I do anything else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Simon Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 So this is progress.Knife is heat treated and ground.I decided to go with a shape inspired by Raymond Richards knives.No ricasso.If you don't know his work, look it up.Just beautiful lines.The hamon should be pretty good.The blade was longer by I had a delam that forced me to shorten it from the ricasso end.It is bigger than it looks, my hands are just big.Polishing and guard making starts tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert D. Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 That thing looks evil sharp at the point... Cant wait to see this thing finished, I am daily scanning the KITH forum so I can get other ideas to try out on making my KITH knife. 1 http://robertjamescustoms.tumblr.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Artymko Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 What has happened to this....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Simon Posted June 10, 2016 Author Share Posted June 10, 2016 What has happened to this. It's a very small blade. So today I started again and did a straight forging from a rasp. I intend to finish the rasp knife and will include the ferry role blade with whoever gets my completed knife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesco Muci Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Thank you for the WIP. Very interesting and instructive. A couple of questions, if you don't mind: I am still struggling with some technical terms so, what is the tuyere? Is is the orifice where the air comes from in th hearth? What are the proportion for a well functioning hearth? And, this might sound stupid to y'all but remember I am Italian: what does KITH mean? Tried to find it on the interweb but I found not knife related definitions... Thank you for sharing! NEME SPES, NEME METU http://zansh62.wix.com/damascusknives www.facebook.com/MuciDamascusKnives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 You are correct about the definition of tuyere, it is where the air is introduced to the hearth. There is a lot of information on hearth making in the Bloomers and Buttons subforum, and don't forget to look at the pinned topics subforum as well. And KITH is Knife In The Hat, a type of blind exchange of knives between those who want to participate. Everyone makes a knife to a pre-agreed theme, and on the deadline date someone draws names from a hat, and that determines who gets which knife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesco Muci Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 That is so cool Alan. Maybe next time I can participate! NEME SPES, NEME METU http://zansh62.wix.com/damascusknives www.facebook.com/MuciDamascusKnives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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