S.Grosvenor
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About 2 months ago my Salmon fishing buddy contacted me (he lives 3hrs away) about coming over for a weekend and doing some hammering. He's had a longtime interest in knives and recently bought a forge and anvil and asked if he could come over for a weekend to see if we could get him started.
I remembered to take a few more pictures this time. We did a 144 layer W2/15n20 billet and a couple of w2/15n20 clad billets.
My goal was to take him through the process and send him back with a hardened (and snap tempered) blank that he could put scales on @ his convenience. He did make up a couple of patterns from stir sticks so we had something to go by.
For a Pattern we ground both vertical and horizontal lines forming a box.
On to the clad stuff, a W2 core clad with 15n20 on either side. This was his first forge weld.
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it was getting late and my picture taking ability was fading, I did try to forge weld 1/4" 416 stainless to a W2 core, I welded every seam (only 4" long) leaving the end open dipped in kero then welded shut.
Forge was running 2350� and it seemed as if the welds took until we ground off the mig weld after drawing it out to 10" half the billet was welded (the front half, maybe got more heat???) but the back half separated.
I was just testing it out, but consider it a failed attempt.
The W2/15n20 was a success and we were able to get him a blank to take home and finish.
I was able to get a couple Ht'ed as well for a customer.
All in all, a good weekend. :thumbup:
I remembered to take a few more pictures this time. We did a 144 layer W2/15n20 billet and a couple of w2/15n20 clad billets.
My goal was to take him through the process and send him back with a hardened (and snap tempered) blank that he could put scales on @ his convenience. He did make up a couple of patterns from stir sticks so we had something to go by.
For a Pattern we ground both vertical and horizontal lines forming a box.
On to the clad stuff, a W2 core clad with 15n20 on either side. This was his first forge weld.
[
it was getting late and my picture taking ability was fading, I did try to forge weld 1/4" 416 stainless to a W2 core, I welded every seam (only 4" long) leaving the end open dipped in kero then welded shut.
Forge was running 2350� and it seemed as if the welds took until we ground off the mig weld after drawing it out to 10" half the billet was welded (the front half, maybe got more heat???) but the back half separated.
I was just testing it out, but consider it a failed attempt.
The W2/15n20 was a success and we were able to get him a blank to take home and finish.
I was able to get a couple Ht'ed as well for a customer.
All in all, a good weekend. :thumbup:
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