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Those of you who know me know that I am slow in the shop, but you also know that I've not been actively making in over 3 years. When my son was born, priorities shifted, and my professional career also became much more demanding. Shop time is scarce these days.
A few months ago, I started mentoring a high school senior through his senior project in which he is making a knife (a full flat-grind modified nessmuk of his design). It forced me back into the shop and got me moving a little bit in the right direction. I'll post pictures of his knife once he's finished, but while he was in the shop last weekend sanding away on his hardened blade, I blasted through grinding out a few blades, and this is the first one I've finished up. It's an old standby design for me; I figured stick to what you know to shake off the dust
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Overall Specs: full flat ground 5/32" CPM 154, 58-59 RC according to my tester, 7.5" OAL, 3.5" cutting edge, 4" from tip to the front of the scale
Handle: black linen micarta with red G10 spacers, screwed and glued with corby's and acraglas
Blade is finished in a fine satin machine finish, and handle scales are a clean 600 grit with a light buff.
Sorry, my shop lighting isn't the best....
Pin placement looks a little worse in the pictures than it is, but the back pin did turn out a bit low. I may have got a tad over-zealous with a 36 Blaze when cleaning up the profile after glue-up.
Obviously it needs an edge. It's ground to 0.015", so it shouldn't take too long with the stones. Finally, I'll throw together a kydex sheath for it, and then it's off to a fellow that's been waiting entirely too long. I've got a few more on the bench that need to be heat treated, and I promised myself that one of these days I'd actually get to keep something I made. Soon....
Thanks for looking, and let me know what you think.
--nathan
A few months ago, I started mentoring a high school senior through his senior project in which he is making a knife (a full flat-grind modified nessmuk of his design). It forced me back into the shop and got me moving a little bit in the right direction. I'll post pictures of his knife once he's finished, but while he was in the shop last weekend sanding away on his hardened blade, I blasted through grinding out a few blades, and this is the first one I've finished up. It's an old standby design for me; I figured stick to what you know to shake off the dust
.Overall Specs: full flat ground 5/32" CPM 154, 58-59 RC according to my tester, 7.5" OAL, 3.5" cutting edge, 4" from tip to the front of the scale
Handle: black linen micarta with red G10 spacers, screwed and glued with corby's and acraglas
Blade is finished in a fine satin machine finish, and handle scales are a clean 600 grit with a light buff.
Sorry, my shop lighting isn't the best....
Pin placement looks a little worse in the pictures than it is, but the back pin did turn out a bit low. I may have got a tad over-zealous with a 36 Blaze when cleaning up the profile after glue-up.
Obviously it needs an edge. It's ground to 0.015", so it shouldn't take too long with the stones. Finally, I'll throw together a kydex sheath for it, and then it's off to a fellow that's been waiting entirely too long. I've got a few more on the bench that need to be heat treated, and I promised myself that one of these days I'd actually get to keep something I made. Soon....Thanks for looking, and let me know what you think.
--nathan
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