JenniferP Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 I have mixed feelings about this video.. The first video was on preforms.. Great video.. the second video was a sorta Run and gun making a Dagger.. Kind of tough to do a run and gun on a symmetrical knife blade and show what run and gun is.. but again a decent video. And then this video while it shows true "Run and gun".. With such a small blade its really hard to hide any of the metal.. I do all the work by hand and I love to forge blades, and love to file them. they take a ton of time to do well. it takes me about 1-1.5 hrs to file the blade so it is ready for heat treatment.. All the cutting edges are brought down to about 0.030-0.035 in prep for heat treat.. Yes the decarb on the out skin of the knife is left in place and only the cutting edge is then sharpened. I do it all by hand.. LOL.. The reason I am saying this is because. This run and gun video would have been much better applied to a larger Kukri or combat fighter or Barong or the like.. On these you can literally forge to shape without the use of a preform because there are places to hide the metal.. You can leave a swell here or there and it can just be looked at as part of the design.. On a smallish blade like this one, all the metal has to be in place or it just looks bad.. The reason why I did not make a larger blade is the finishing factor.. I am sorta tired out of blade1, 2 and then my regular work. This knife will have a guard and a lanyard hole in the pinky drop. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jlpsinc Facebook photos: https://www.facebook.com/pg/jlpsinc/photos Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8WRbArfgi8kSaDek7kh_1Q?view_as=subscriber Google Photo's: https://goo.gl/photos/jNR8MRdz5TSU3Nm47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerri Duncan Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Bravo Ms. Jennifer! I appreciate your camera angles- you can see where the metal moves- Thank you for posting this- I will be visiting the other videos this week as well! Kerri 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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