A couple of my home made patch knives

Wait till you ya see it now in a day or two. Shavru lit the fuse. It's hawk makeover II in the works.

Bookie, you spoke to her the other day on the phone.......remember you were chatting and there was some dumb guy in the background saying stuff like is he talking, I dont hear nothing, make it louder.......I think she liked ya too.

First she wanted to know if someone was unhappy with my grips or something, told her I try to stay with folks at least 3 states away so we don't get no visitors.
 
Bawanna, with photos like that of the little woman, how do you find time to mess with sharp pointy things? Here's a few more photos showing a pistol barrel being made from a wrought iron wagon wheel rim.
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[/URL][/IMG] The seam on the barrel is being welded up on the swedge block or buffalo head.
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[/URL][/IMG] Plain ol' 20 Mule Team borax has been put on the inch of seam that gets welded next. Believe me, the borax sure ain't the scented stuff!
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[/URL][/IMG] I am moving FAST to get the barrel to the swedge block whie the metal is at welding heat. There are very few seconds that the metal can be hammered in order to fuse the edges together in. Look closely. The barrel itself is hard to see because of the heat coloring & the fire, but you can yell the barrel is at welding heat or a little past because of the sparks jumping from the metal. At this point, there is no magnetism remaining in the metal and won't be until it cools back down.
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[/URL][/IMG] Close up of the barrel. About the last inch of the closed seam has been welded up and it looks pretty good.
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[/URL][/IMG] Once the barrel seam has been completely welded up, you must ask yourself, Is it welded up completely? Will the welds hold? I cut a chunk of the barrel off to examine the bore and check the welded seam. No seam showing! Success! This barrel will next have the flats hammered onto it, drilled, reamed, and rifled before being put on a pistol.
 
Amazing! Have a tough time stuffin your balls down that barrel being a little oblong. Least ways till you get it drilled and rifled I reckon.

It don't look like your beating that barrel around a mandrel, what keeps it from just flattening out and not having a hole? Maybe I'm missing something. Iffen there was a mandrel it would be a hammer forged barrel correct, if the mandrel had the rifling incorporated into it.

I find them read hot pictures a little scary. I've recently been burned slightly and I'm still a bit traumatized.

Them photo's is a few years old, she's still fine but maybe not quite that fine and I never did have her voice box removed. Sometime the audio can override the visual, in fact it quite frequently does.
 
Bookie - That was beyond awesome, I have never in my life seen anything like that. Thanks for the photos of a Master of the Art.
 
Great work, thank you for sharing
 
Bawanna: It requires two people in order to use a mandrel. When I'm by myself, I can do what I want! But one mishit, and @#$%^&* !
Cul: Why don't you drag Bawanna over to Corn Patch and we'll get dirty having a whole lot of fun? My wife says I gotta quit spending money on things I can make for myself. I think she is hinting that HIK Fever has claimed another victim and she just might have to have me put to sleep. Hmmm. I just might be tempted to see if I could forge one up....mebbe in pattern weld? With chevrons down each side of the blade like on a Viking blade? Naw. I ain't got the time this week.
 
Here is the barrel after boring it our and getting the flats draw filed down. It was reamed by hand with an old square file for a reamer and the bore is precisely .5000 or .50 caliber. (I even took a picture of it.) Looks good to me.
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This photo of a buggy wheel rim has been around the horn, but it is still my favorite one of hot metal from my shop. Look closely. Strange lighting going on, eh? Magnetism has been expelled from the metal, light is being bent in unnatural ways (see what appears to be a ribbon of something to the left?), incandescent sparks says its at or beyond proper welding heat. One of the college professors that has studied here says there are more things going on in this pic that one could imagine. I ain't no scientist and don't understand it, but to me, this is one weird, but totally amazing photograph. Proves the Lord works in mysterious ways.
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Amazing! Making a barrel like that and having it come out so perfect just never stops amazing me.

And that is one hot picture right there. Gives me 1st degree burns just looking at it.

I best come down and hold the mandrel for ya, I'm sure you got some swamper type stuff I could help ya with. I could hold the horse while you put the shoes on.
Wait....you ever out shoes on a horse? I'm betting you have.

Tell the wife not to put ya down, we need ya to keep posting stories and pictures. A day without bookie is a day without.....well let me think of something good.
 
Man I know a piece of plutonium when I see it! I still think your building a nuclear reactor!
That barrel is amazing. Id love to see that from beginning to end.
 
ndoghouse said:
Man I know a piece of plutonium when I see it! I still think your building a nuclear reactor!
That barrel is amazing. Id love to see that from beginning to end.
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This right here^^ I'd love to see from scratch to finished product. Wanted to see that for a good many years. Also wanted to launch off a carrier on a fighter jet, never did that either. I don't want to land back on the boat though, just so everyone knows.

Too dang small to land on.
 
Bookie said:
Cul: Why don't you drag Bawanna over to Corn Patch and we'll get dirty having a whole lot of fun?
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I may just have to do that one day. Maybe in a few years, after my little on grows up a bit. Then, I'll have more free time to do as I may. Thank you for the generous offer though!
 
Looking at the pictures as you seal it up and then the shot through the dead straight octagon barrel. Just WOW!! The years of knowlege and hands of talent. Amazing! Tell your wife it would be a crime against the Arts should she have you put down. Besides HIKV isn't like rabies, you won't bite her and you can survive a long time with it and it only hurts if you don't have an HI khuk every so often. Though I am sure a Bookie forged Khuk made of pattern weld, with chevrons down each side of the blade like on a Viking blade would be a very acceptable substitute for quite awhile. Heck even seeing such a blade being made would help a number of us toothless sharks while we are recovering.
 
In an effort to keep this thread alive and well (it's a good one) and since Mr. Bookie is directly responsible for guidance in getting me into this hawk.
I present the slightly more modified Hawk since Shavru said I was a lazy scoundrel and left it unfinished. Thing already has a history, I took it back to the gun show to show the fella I bought it from the stained handle and blued head, when I got home it was gone. Turned out it fell off the chair, fortunately if fell off as I was getting in the drivers seat, fell under the chair and the seat and I could'nt see it. Was headed back to look for it when I noticed it peeking out. I shall secure more properly in the future.









And one of the missus for Bookie. Actually was a close up of the para cord but focus went completely out the window???

 
LoL, Bawanna, I sure as heck never said anything about lazy or any of those other things. BUT I do like what you have done. I like it a LOT infact. That is about as incredible a hawk as I can imagine. Surely nothing plain about that one now. Awsome!
 
Bawanna, you did good on that hawk, it's lookin hot!

Wait! You going to practice throwing???? Let me duck, or get behind a shield or something. Don't know how far it's going to travel, or not travel at all...lol j/k.
 
Shavru said:
LoL, Bawanna, I sure as heck never said anything about lazy or any of those other things. BUT I do like what you have done. I like it a LOT infact. That is about as incredible a hawk as I can imagine. Surely nothing plain about that one now. Awsome!
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Well ok, call me a little white liar. I went back and reread and you didn't say lazy or scoundrel. But you figured it needed some checkering and dressing up some.

I hope I didn't go plumb too fur! I'm now hoping Mr. Bookie don't call me a girlyman and it's got bling and I should wear finger polish and mascara. Now I got nuthin against girly mindya but I got not much tolerance to girlyman.

On the brightside I can either throw it and probably bust the handle or cut the handle out and start over. ????

I think it would look divine wearing some tiger maple. Divine, who talks divine, is that girlyman talk?
 
cul4u01 said:
Bawanna, you did good on that hawk, it's lookin hot!

Wait! You going to practice throwing???? Let me duck, or get behind a shield or something. Don't know how far it's going to travel, or not travel at all...lol j/k.
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I'll aim low at first and dial my arm down some. Shouldn't fly too fur that way. Should be safe, your in Frisco, yeah you should be safe.
 
breathtaking work guys, love to see this stuff-- and bookie, holy cow man, holy cow..... its pretty special to be able to make a gun like you make them, could not have more respect for this level of craft.

bawanna-- it is always cool to see you embellish your stuff, you make it look easy, and I have tried a couple of times on pine now, and sir, it is not easy lol-- but really cool man, much respect for the magic you can do with some woodworking, love seeing it! the hawk is coming out very awesome!
 
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