A good day in the shop

[T Blade]

Fired up the forge around 7 AM, after hooking up my pyrometer. Brought it up to 1800o

and heated up a 240 layer billet I made with my Brother Kook, last Friday

I’m making a sgian dubh for a piper in a Celtic band.

I started by forming the point

After I got the point established, I notched the shoulders for the tang

, using a hot cutter that I made

I drew that tang out using my home made thingy (brain Fart) there

, I made it by welding a piece of 5160 to the stick and clad the end of the steel with 309 stainless stick wire, it works real well. .

I cut the knife from the rest of the billet with a 4 ½” angle cutter, to draw out the tang. I really don’t like using the hot cutter for that as it deforms the blade while whacking against the cutter, that’s a disadvantage of a closed back horizontal forge.

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While the blade was cooling from the 1st normalization, I preheated these bars to put long side the blade, when it goes into my annealing agent (vermiculite )

Here’s the blade before the last normalization (3 times) and final heat beginnig the annealing process (I really don’t know what critical is for this steel)

The blade is cooling as I write this. I see what it's like in the morning.

So that was pretty much my day. Hope you enjoyed.

 

[Barkes Knife Shop]

Great looking Photo's TBlade nice job out in the shop. A+-----:thumbup:

 

[indian george]

Excellent job BBBB Beaver.:thumbup: :thumbup: Please put the method in our Long Term Memory, so you can do it at your HI. HEHEHEHEHEHE!!!