Damascus pipehawk WIP

[Rafał Garbacik 37]

Hello!

Yesterday I started new project - pattern welded pipehawk. It is my second attempt to forge pipehawk.

I started with a sketch with dimentions:

 And then I cut pieces of steel for billet, one were made out of 50HF spring steel and S235 low carbon steel, and second out of 50HF and NCV1,

Billets ready for forge welding, the bigger one have  30 layers and 1640 gram of weight, smaller one has 20 layers and 888 grams of weight.

Few pictures of forging using power hammer, fluxing and heating up.

Billets ready for grinding, cutting and welding

After welding both have 120 layers, I marked and forged the bigger billet into the U-shape

 

Now is time to forge the pipe:

When the pipe is ready, I improved it's shape and then I cut out piece of smaller billet for a blade.

When everything is alright, it's time for forge welding entire hawk.

The pipehawk after forging:

At the end of this day I finished the pipe on a lathe.

Now it's weight is 890 grams.

Enjoy

[Alan Longmire 3,297]

I approve!  Watching with interest. 

[Sam Ecroyd 24]

Really looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

[Garry Keown 1,218]

7 hours ago, Alan Longmire said:

I approve!  Watching with interest. 

I believe you will be one of many Alan.

[James Higson 83]

Very cool and nice technique for the eye! Looking forward to seeing it finished and smoking!

[Rafał Garbacik 37]

Thank you guys

Now I roughly grinded the surface and marked the top line of hawk

Then I cut and grinded to that line, and marked shape of it

And now I started work with file, I improved the shape of eye and cut the mark for the chevron

Using angle grinder I roughly cut the chevron shape, and then using a file I finished it

And after the 80 grit sandpaper

Enjoy

[Brian Dougherty 1,296]

Wow!

[Chris C-S 148]

Looking good.