Joël Mercier Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 It's been more complicated and took way longer than I had anticipated, especially with the protruding copper piece, but I think I like how it turned out. What do you think? The idea was to have sharp facets while keeping this area comfortable. The protruding piece also has the function of anti slip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Dunlap Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 I started forging my first ever attempt at a Ws pattern. I got to 240 layers, next weekend I will start stacking the sections to make the Ws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaron Martindale Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Gave myself an excuse to go back over the finish of the blade and accidentally copper flashed the blade for the sub-hilt fighter, lol! Time to throw some labels on which tube of ferric is contaminated! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Abbott Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Ha! The other evening I had an inkjet stencil ready to etch a logo and I dipped my etching swab in the baby food jar with acetone in it instead of the one with salt water. Took a minute to figure out why my stencil dissolved. Definitely time for some labels. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joël Mercier Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 1st time working with ironwood. It shapes well with files, but it's very gummy on the sandpaper, huh? I brought it to 600 grit with a light hand buff and it's already shiny. Nice stuff... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyO Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 (edited) Not knife related but had some fun today... Forged out of ~12" of 1 1/4"x1/4" flat bar Edited February 5, 2022 by billyO 5 RIP Bear....be free! as always peace and love billyO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert McCann Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 First blade hand sanded with the new fixture I made. Going to try something different with the etching, hope it works. Close on the sanding. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Schmalhofer Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Do to forced down time (doctors orders to stay in bed - not going to happen - or sitting down) finally gave me a chance to try casting. I don't think I did too badly for a first go of it. Made it easy and cast in pewter (actually hard solder; tin, copper and silver). Wax master After casting. and all "cleaned up". Two inches in diameter. Going to become a Christmas tree ornament (yeah my family does very non-traditional ornaments - we have a Cthulhu ornament...) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrod Miller Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 On 2/6/2022 at 11:29 AM, Bill Schmalhofer said: Going to become a Christmas tree ornament (yeah my family does very non-traditional ornaments - we have a Cthulhu ornament...) I'm more concerned with how early you are in getting it made. It doesn't seem right to have an ornament made before Thanksgiving, let alone before Valentine's day. Over achiever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Schmalhofer Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 20 hours ago, Jerrod Miller said: I'm more concerned with how early you are in getting it made. It doesn't seem right to have an ornament made before Thanksgiving, let alone before Valentine's day. Over achiever. As I said, I'm on "bed rest". Was a nice relaxing thing to do since I'm not allowed to really work in my shop for the next 2-3 weeks. Had to something otherwise I'd be going stir crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Middleton Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Killed the motor that I had on my surface grinder. The only other motor in the shop that I could put on it was the 1/2hp, 3450 rpm motor that has been on my 2x48 for years. Since I had to pull that off, I took the opportunity to put on the 2hp, 3450rpm motor that I recently picked up. Holy hell does that take off some material! I spent ten minutes turning scrap metal into dust just for the fun of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Gastellu Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Been experimenting with making a finer grit satanite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert McCann Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Working on a Chef knife 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake cleland Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 long day. Ground, hardened and tempered a couple of blades, and finish ground the one I'm thinking of as an adventurers knife - it's a somewhat fantastical take on a sgian achlais/gralloching knife. On that one I laid out the clay for the hamon in a knotwork pattern, which is something I tried a few times about 20 years ago, but couldn't really get to work. This time was pretty successful, i think. We'll see how it comes out in the polish... 4 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...
Doug Webster Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Jake those blades look light and nimble. Quite the opposite of the fugly yard machete I quenched today. I made a leather D guard that is probably useless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Webster Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Sanded to 500grit then applied the mustard patina followed by a misting of gun blue for one hour. Wash then baked with flaxseed oil. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Keown Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Finished an antler and buff horn handled heavy hunter so on to the lerather this afternoon . Early in the day had a 13 knife commission confirmed. 7 and 5 1/2 in chef, 5 inch general purpose and 4 inch paring knife then a (western) nakiri slicer, bearded chef boning knife and set of 6 steak knives. all in cryo treated NitroV with quilted NZ macrocarpa handles. 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 February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 A few blades cut out and ready to get the profiles tidied on the grinder. 2 Von Gruff http://www.vongruffknives.com/ The ability to do comes with doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaron Martindale Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Most of this was done earlier this week, but I'm bad at uploading pictures to the computer so I can post them easier, lol First, I got the Sub-hilt Fighter all together finally! this is a picture of the dry fit, but not much different than how it looks now with the glue I got an 80CrV2 K-tip kitchen knife heat-treated and did a super rough grind and etch to check the temper-line. I've been enjoying the gentle waves that 80CrV2 gives with a simple clay. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Ricks Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) Started building a checkering cradle for gunstocks. Also will be used for checkering knife scales with an adapter to hold the scales. Should be completed in a week or so. Edited February 19, 2022 by John Ricks 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Middleton Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) Started out the day working on shaping the handle of a simple hunter. Got a little careless on the grinder. That'll cost me more time than I care to think about right now. Switched gears and decided to start up the next project on my list. A friend at work gave me an old 20 ga Savage single shot shotgun that had been made inoperable. The barrel was bent and the stock broken. I cut the barrel down to just the chamber, and filled it full of 1080 powder with 2% nickel. Got it forged out and did a quick test etch on the end of the billet. After a bunch of surface grinding, I have enough material to make a nice little hunter for him. Edited February 20, 2022 by Alex Middleton 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua States Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Alex Middleton said: After a bunch of surface grinding, I have enough material to make a nice little hunter for him That will look bit**in' if you grind a half-ladder into it and then forge it to shape. I'm guessing a really cool looking wolf's tooth will emerge. Edited February 21, 2022 by Joshua States “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...
Alex Middleton Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Shoot, good idea. I wish id have thought about somethinglike that. Its too late now, I'll have to remember for next time. I want to try one with a rifle barrel. I think the rifling will look pretty cool after the bevels are ground in. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert McCann Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 I should have worked on a knife that's almost ready to glue up but I got impatient. I ground and heat treated an integral I forged this week and also heat treated a Cu mai blade. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerhard Gerber Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) It gladdens my heart my heart, I'm posting here so that means I pulled my finger out and got something done this weekend. Prepped a 21 layer 1070 and 15N20 (some equivalent actually) billet, managed to set the weld by hand without cooking it, and put a few twists in. The billet is still way too thick to get tight twists, so next plan is to forge it back to square and less beefy, then twist it some more. I've been struggling with a stomach bug and I had to bury my dog last week, so it was good to work, burn and make something. Edited February 25, 2022 by Gerhard Gerber 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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