Forged Wood Marking Knife

[Chris C-S]

Little forged wood marking/kiridashi style knife for a fellow artisan. Completely forged to shape from a file end with forged finish edges. Smoothest forging I have ever done. Pretty amateur work for some of the people around here but I'm proud enough of it to give it away to a mates husband. 

 

Bevel was established with hammer then HT and tempered before grinding and polishing on king stones. Single bevel 8000grit edge. Shaves like a dream. Should be a small little handy tool. 

[Rob Toneguzzo]

To be honest Chris, you are far better off working on smaller projects such as this to practice your forging skills and esp your heat treat. This will put you in good stead when you move to bigger things.

Looks like a handy blade.

[Alan Longmire]

What Rob said.  I can't overstate the importance of gaining good forging skills, especially if you don't have serious power tooling to finish things with.  The old saying is "a minute at the forge saves ten at the grinder," but if you're working without a big grinder, it's more like "a minute at the forge saves an hour with files and sandpaper."  

 

There's not one thing wrong with that little kiridashi.  

[Randy Griffin]

I like it. I'm partial to these single bevel blades. They get really sharp. Like Rob said, small is good practice. I'm just starting and I've yet to make a blade longer than 2".

[Chris C-S]

9 hours ago, Rob Toneguzzo said:

To be honest Chris, you are far better off working on smaller projects such as this to practice your forging skills and esp your heat treat. This will put you in good stead when you move to bigger things.

Looks like a handy blade.

 

Thanks Rob. I've done a bit of stock removal stuff and HT that but forging this little thing was fun. Surprisingly killed my hammer are as I was also smashing down a heap of 12mm leaf spring into small stock at the same time. In conclusion, work on 1 thing at a time. 

 

6 hours ago, Alan Longmire said:

What Rob said.  I can't overstate the importance of gaining good forging skills, especially if you don't have serious power tooling to finish things with.  The old saying is "a minute at the forge saves ten at the grinder," but if you're working without a big grinder, it's more like "a minute at the forge saves an hour with files and sandpaper."  

 

There's not one thing wrong with that little kiridashi.  

 

Thanks Alan, appreciate the advice. I have a 2x72 but forging is where I want to get better at. 

 

5 hours ago, Randy Griffin said:

I like it. I'm partial to these single bevel blades. They get really sharp. Like Rob said, small is good practice. I'm just starting and I've yet to make a blade longer than 2".

 

Thanks Randy.

[Robert D.]

I made a little Kiradashi for leatherworking a while ago. Best tool I have ever made for myself....

Nice job forging that. 

[Chris C-S]

7 hours ago, Robert D. said:

I made a little Kiradashi for leatherworking a while ago. Best tool I have ever made for myself....

Nice job forging that. 

 

Thanks Robert.