Garry Keown Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Three Old Westerns and two Light Hunters ready for the glue up. In the clamps now till tomorrow. 1 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Three of them all done today 3 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 Had to change the motor on the power hammer today. Was more than a simple bolt inn as the hammer was really built round the 1 hp motor but it was a 5 amp draw and was trying to draw 5.5 amps so kept shutting down. The new motor is a 2 hp unit and was/is substantially larger so it was a bit of a shoehorn effort. Had to shift the hinges mounting plate back about 3 1/2 inches and that necessitated shifting the treddle as well which was all welded i place. The hinged mounting plate was held in with 1/4 in bolst so had to drilll and tap them and the stop plate in thier new positions. I did have to cut a section out of the brace to get the motor back far enough for the belt to tighten on the pulleys from its resting place where the belt was not egaged. Have it all sorted now and just waiting on the sparky to come in and wire it up. The bolts holding the lower end of the initial pulley bearings had to be taken out, have the heads ground down to half thier thickness to all ow for the capacitor head of the motor to go back as close as possible to the plate brace. You can see the stop against the mounting plate under the motor so it rests against this rather than the capacitor housing at the top of the motor All back ready for a belt and awire up again. 2 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John N Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 (edited) getting a few knives finished up, including this 'hipster' special with stabalised OSB handle! - will get some decent pics of what Im working on when there is some decent light! blade is stainless clad Aogami super blue steel. https://imgur.com/8qDGAC9 [img]https://i.imgur.com/8qDGAC9.jpg[/img] Edited September 19, 2020 by John N Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 I started getting ready for the next project which includes a knife to with a leather stack handle so made a couple of cutters to make the leather washers. Used a length of heavy wall tube and heated it in the forge to allow for driving it down over the taper, then flattened the sides slightly and sharpen. The smaller one will cut a lightly ovalled disc that is 1 1/8 by 7/8 for the front and rear handle size and the larger one will cut 1 1/1/4 x 1 for the larger center ones. 6 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Great idea! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John N Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 (edited) . Edited September 20, 2020 by John N i give up, imgur not working for me. no pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 15 minutes ago, John N said: . If you are trying to upload a pic John, take a screen grab and post that. Simple to do on the computer but dont knoqw about a ph Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadd S. Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 After failing to heat treat that 1095 blade I was working on forever I started a new one. It's 1080, hopefully even I can't screw up heat treating it, but we'll see. It's a little 3 finger edc and despite the usual mistakes (plunge lines and bevels) I quite like it. Gonna use some olive drab micarta scales and hope and pray the heat treat goes well. Also, hand sanding for 2 hours is painful. Should have gotten a progression of belts instead of just 40 and 120 grit. Lesson well learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert McCann Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Well not today but yesterday glued up a chef knife with a new tip fixture I copied off Instagram sorry can't remember the persons name. Today I spent an hour forging out this billet once it was up to heat from just under 6 inches to 15. If I had the press I'm going to build the initial drawing would have been faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) Some blades done today with a new eating knife for when we go into the city once a week and have a meal at one of the hotel dining rooms which like many of these places have knives that are less than I have become used to so I retrieved a reject 15n20 (carbon steel) blade from the drawer and reprofiled it to my table knife pattern. Drilled new handle pin holes and ground it after the heat treat. Have a set of impala jigged buffalo horn scales epoxied and clamped to blue liners overnight for fitting tomorrow. On the Safari Blade I wanted to try something a bit different and drilled my 3 pin makers mark right through the blade and after heat treat and finish grind, countersunk the holes and peened in brass pinstock. With it also being stone washed, I will be looking at options formthe handle matertila to complement the stone wash with brass. The two KA Bar builds are shown elsewhere. Edited September 22, 2020 by Garry Keown 3 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadd S. Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 I finally had a successful heat treat thanks to all the great info around here. That recalessence or decalescence (I forget which is which) Alan explained seemed to be the key. But then I miiiiiight have over tempered it a bit. Oh, well. I'm still calling it a win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake cleland Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Made a card mockup for an uncoming commission... 3 Jake Cleland - Skye Knives www.knifemaker.co.uk "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Dougherty Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Dayum Jake. That'll be a nice WIP! <nudge> -Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Oh, my! Yep, WIP, please? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clifford Brewer Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Plus one on a WIP............... If ya can't be good don't git caught !! People who say stuff can't be done need to git the hell outta the way of people who do stuff !!! Show me a man who is called an expert by his peers And I will show you a good man to listen to ...... Show me a man who calls himself an expert and I will show you an egotistical asshole...............!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrod Miller Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 6 hours ago, Chadd S. said: I finally had a successful heat treat thanks to all the great info around here. That recalessence or decalescence (I forget which is which) Alan explained seemed to be the key. But then I miiiiiight have over tempered it a bit. Oh, well. I'm still calling it a win. Congrats! Don't forget that you can always re-quench and temper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadd S. Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Jerrod Miller said: Congrats! Don't forget that you can always re-quench and temper. Thanks Jerrod. I know I can re-quench but I was hoping I wouldn't have to. The blades mostly blue, which I suspect is too much. Not sure how the toaster oven got that hot. Shouldn't be able to get above 450 degrees, though I know they fluctuate pretty wildly even though I had it set a bit under 400. I guess I'll have to make some modifications to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Chalifoux Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, Chadd S. said: Thanks Jerrod. I know I can re-quench but I was hoping I wouldn't have to. The blades mostly blue, which I suspect is too much. Not sure how the toaster oven got that hot. Shouldn't be able to get above 450 degrees, though I know they fluctuate pretty wildly even though I had it set a bit under 400. I guess I'll have to make some modifications to it. Coloration is a byproduct of both temperature and time. If you hold a piece of steel at 350F for eight hours straight, it'd probably turn blue too. It's also just oxidation, so if the toaster oven was in a breezy area or had a fan, that could shift the color. Residual oils and other contaminants from your hands or grinding can also impact it. These are all reasons why tempering by color is generally pretty inaccurate. Edited September 23, 2020 by AJ Chalifoux 1 1 Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake cleland Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 16 hours ago, Brian Dougherty said: Dayum Jake. That'll be a nice WIP! <nudge> 15 hours ago, Alan Longmire said: Oh, my! Yep, WIP, please? 12 hours ago, Clifford Brewer said: Plus one on a WIP............... I'll try and document as I go. May have a trial run at the basket next week. My forge doesn't get hot enough to weld mild to mild consistently, so my plan at the moment is to braze all the parts together. I figure I can dovetail all the main joints off the main guard and cold peen them tight, and wire up the butt joints at the top. If I get everything tight, hopefully when I come to braze on the saltires and other decoration the braze shouldn't want to run out of the other joints too much, and I figure I can flux everything and have some filler rod handy... It just seems too complicated to try and do it all in a single brazing operation... Jake Cleland - Skye Knives www.knifemaker.co.uk "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 1 hour ago, jake cleland said: It just seems too complicated to try and do it all in a single brazing operation... I agree. That's where an acetylene torch with a small tip is very handy. I'd love to watch one of the old smiths back in the late 1600s - early 1700s make one of those baskets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake cleland Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 8 minutes ago, Alan Longmire said: I agree. That's where an acetylene torch with a small tip is very handy. I'd love to watch one of the old smiths back in the late 1600s - early 1700s make one of those baskets. No acetylene, sadly, but my dad has a good half inch propane torch which might put out enough heat for small joints. Figure I'll get the main joint's done first and see how that goes... Jake Cleland - Skye Knives www.knifemaker.co.uk "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conner Michaux Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Plenty of work to be done but this is one is looking great so far. 96DA5C65-BE9C-4F2E-A8A8-21DFE348BB1B.MOV 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Dougherty Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Got this thing hand sanded up to 220 (almost, still a few machine scratches to get out yet) and did a quick test etch. Pretty happy with the look so far... 5 -Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert McCann Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 @Brian Dougherty That's really looks good. I worked on a chef knife a bit. Today I forged a San mai billet and split a billet for the first time and of course learned some lessons. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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