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Well done!
jdm61
itinerant metal pounder
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Nice work, Ian. I am getting ready to try that with 416 and 1084. I wonder if that wispy transition that you see on Burt's knives is a result of the 416 hardening up a bit in the quench? The transition on that 300 series is very clean looking.
Joe, I'd say Burt's complex transition line is due to him knowing what he's doing.
I forged two of these on consecutive nights, and they both came out pretty much the same, although it was definitely more by luck than judgement. I literally welded the bits together, heated them and whacked 'em when they turned orange! (I done a WIP on Britishblades if you want a good laugh at some bad forging techniques
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This one has a larger visible edge section than the first one as I didn't forge the edge down much, lazy stock removalist that I am...
A mate of mine has got the other one and is about to put the handle on it. I'm sure he'll post it on here when he's finished.
To get my finish, I etched in FC for as long as it took me to roll and smoke a cigarette and then lightly buffed it with green chrome on a loose mop.
Amazingly enough, it turned out fairly well.
Ian
I forged two of these on consecutive nights, and they both came out pretty much the same, although it was definitely more by luck than judgement. I literally welded the bits together, heated them and whacked 'em when they turned orange! (I done a WIP on Britishblades if you want a good laugh at some bad forging techniques
)This one has a larger visible edge section than the first one as I didn't forge the edge down much, lazy stock removalist that I am...
A mate of mine has got the other one and is about to put the handle on it. I'm sure he'll post it on here when he's finished.
To get my finish, I etched in FC for as long as it took me to roll and smoke a cigarette and then lightly buffed it with green chrome on a loose mop.
Amazingly enough, it turned out fairly well.
Ian
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Wow! Very cool stuff Ian. Great work as always. 
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I'm glad you liked the stainless.
Is the guard cold fitted?
:thumbup:I'm glad you liked the stainless.
Is the guard cold fitted?
Marcus, working with 410 was a revelation for me! Far easier than 304 or 303. Thought I'd better make something a bit different to fit it to!
I now wish I'd saved it for the 35th anniversary knife....coming soon by the way
The guard is soldered. It looks pretty poor in the photos due to that big dark shadow, but is actually pretty neat.
Once I've worked through my stock of 303 & 304 I'm definitely going to find some 400 series.
Cheers mate.
Ian
I now wish I'd saved it for the 35th anniversary knife....coming soon by the way
The guard is soldered. It looks pretty poor in the photos due to that big dark shadow, but is actually pretty neat.
Once I've worked through my stock of 303 & 304 I'm definitely going to find some 400 series.
Cheers mate.
Ian