Karim Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 I want to share my progress in making this dagger. It all started whit a chunk of rusted iron my gf dug out of the garden and she challenged me to make a knife. I decided to forge whitout cleaning the steels and added RR (deaminated scrap i was testing whit) and some bandsaw leftovers for the core. As you can imagine the welding was a slow process of deamination refluxing and compacting. Against my exaptations the resulting billet was solid but not fitted for any kind of edge. I decided to add a file in capturing the billet and a birds beak construction for the tip. The result is pleasing as it contains some fun welding and it survived the quench. Now for a handle design.... Let me know what you think, thanks for watching. 3
Charles dP Posted April 21, 2017 Posted April 21, 2017 Nice Karim. Looking good. "The way we win matters" (Ender Wiggins) Orson Scott Card Nos qui libertate donati nescimus quid constat
Jonas Liebel Posted April 21, 2017 Posted April 21, 2017 Looks good! I personally like a dagger to be a little less broad, but thats just my preference. >>> Check out my Youtube channel <<<
Karim Posted April 21, 2017 Author Posted April 21, 2017 Thanks, the file had a narrow forge windows that made me stop drawing out at certain point that's why she s kinda beefy.
Karim Posted April 29, 2017 Author Posted April 29, 2017 Guard shaped object, this will be refined more.
Charles dP Posted April 29, 2017 Posted April 29, 2017 What is the guard made from Karim? "The way we win matters" (Ender Wiggins) Orson Scott Card Nos qui libertate donati nescimus quid constat
Karim Posted April 30, 2017 Author Posted April 30, 2017 some mild steel i layered real quick, will also use it for the end cap. Thing is sometimes the mild steels have some Ni that shows up now.
Charles dP Posted May 1, 2017 Posted May 1, 2017 It looks good "The way we win matters" (Ender Wiggins) Orson Scott Card Nos qui libertate donati nescimus quid constat
Jonas Liebel Posted May 1, 2017 Posted May 1, 2017 Looks great! Keep it up >>> Check out my Youtube channel <<<
Karim Posted May 6, 2017 Author Posted May 6, 2017 (edited) Selected the handle materials and made a rough design. Edited May 6, 2017 by Karim
Chris C-S Posted May 9, 2017 Posted May 9, 2017 Nice, little stumpy, but nice. Good to see it wrapped up.
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