What did you do in your shop today?

[Eric Estlund]

Mmmm....#satisfyingsayasounds

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[nathan doss]

very nice

 

[nathan doss]

Hit a bit of a bump in the road with my knife; it was supposed to be 1085 steel, but halfway through, I had it spark tested when the oil quench didn't work, and it turns out it is closer to 40-point carbon! After I found that out, I tried to water quench it to see if it would harden, but still no. I might try a super quench just for fun.

[Jeroen Zuiderwijk]

Got some new leather in for future sheaths. There's so much variation in leather, even in natural veg tanned cow leather of the same thickness. The leather I previously worked with was too soft. It's ok for small sheaths, but carving it is more challenging, as it tends to spring back, making the carvings less clear. This new leather is sold here as saddle leather. It's properly stiff. Stiff enough that if you cut a strip of it and hold it horizontal, it stays straight. I hope shaping it will not be too difficult, particular the angle for broken back seaxes. That was easy with the softer leather. But we'll see. 

[Jaro Petrina]

I forged this damascus sandwich, its O1+nickelsteel and O1 core. Very solid 7 mm thick, 35 cm blade. Looking solid through, I shall make it into big english style bowie. "Bear hunter" The core comes out evenly, at the moment I have about 3,5 mm left on main grind, then the clip, the HT and so on. 

[Gerhard Gerber]

My first gas forge was a big victory in my knife making career, unlike my ribbon burner supposed to be game changer failure. 

So the little guy got an upgrade, new lorry rim stand, work rest with some of my best birdshit welding......earth issues......and refractory lining. 

And my two very cute African village dog siblings 

 

[Gerhard Gerber]

This is my best 52100 kitchen knife blade to date, straight and hard. 

Bolster is purple mohair wool micarta, handle white Oak 

[Alan Longmire]

Spent the day cooking and grinding.  Cooking was Alaskan-style smoked salmon chowder, grinding was taking an 8" santoku from profiled blank of 0.090" / 2.2mm AEB-L to bevels done to 400 grit with edge right at 0.010" / 0.3mm.  Next shop time will be hand sanding to 600 or so prior to HT.  

[Gilbert McCann]

Did some grinding on the integral Bowie it went from .350 to  .250

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[Joshua States]

I Forged a 3-bar billet and did the fishmouth weld. Then I pulled a smallish Bowie out of some piled W2.

 

 

Then, just for the sake of having a distater, I destroyed two wootz pucks

 

 

[Aiden CC]

I finally decided to re line my forge after 8 years. I’ve patched it here and there and used a replaceable shelf on the floor for flux, but it was definitely time:

 

So far I have installed and rigidized two layers of wool, and put in a layer of castable to go under a ceramic floor tile I got from Chile Forge, as I was quite happy with the durability of the original. The plan is to let the floor cure, then cover the walls with Satanite and finally ITC 100

[Alan Longmire]

Did some hand sanding on a kitchen knife before nearly ruining it by stamping my mark too hard.  Had to regrind to remove the dent on the mark side and the bulge on the other...

 

Then I made a hook for a Christmas party giveaway.

 

 

 

And of course NOW I see that the actual hook part is a little crooked... 

[Eric Estlund]

Just discovered a workman came across the anvil and in a moment of enthusiastic carelessness bounced a hammer on it.

 

Unfortunately, they picked up exactly the wrong carbide tipped hammer and left a bunch of pock mark clusters. 

 

Weeeee!

[Aiden CC]

Things have been a bit chaotic lately, but I found some time to work on knives. I’ve got a lot of irons in the fire so to speak, but I put the priority on these blades, whipped

up in the past couple of days. A handful of my “bread and butter” styles with a few pukkos, Sakha knives, and a leuku. 

[Alan Longmire]

Nice!  I've been using the heck out of the one I got from you in this year's KITH. Speaking of which,

 

just finished this santoku.

 

 

 

Right at 12" / 33cm overall, 7.25" / 18.4cm blade.  Stock removal from 3/32" / 2.4mm AEB-L HT'd to what should be Rc61. Handle scales stabilized walnut from Bill Armstrong, https://www.bladesmithsforum.com/index.php?/topic/43173-stabilized-scales-for-sale/

 

 

I found out that if you strike a stamped mark too hard on an annealed blade that thin it will bend the heck out of said thin blade, but it straightens out easily too. Solid 1/4" brass pins, slightly riveted, which is why the center pin looks slightly misaligned. 

[Eric Estlund]

Started the rubbing.