All In a Weekends Work

[69_knives]

Is it bad that I'd rather forge blades than finish knives??

from left to right, a 35mm wrench that I picked up a handfull of from a second hand shop for $2.00 a piece.

next 6 are forged from CruForge V 1"x0.25". I finally remembered to measure how much blade length I get for a given length of bar... works out to about 9.5" blade per 7" of bar which equals about 35% increase in material length. I think I can tweak it to get a bit more as I left the tips and tangs a bit thicker than necessary.

Next is 1 forged and 2 stock removal from 1095 barstock.

I just had to do some experimenting with the CruForge V blades and so, there are 2 'missing'... This is definitely not a water quench or hamon friendly steel.

 

[go mike]

That wrench looks so cool! Are (quality) wrenches good for a blade steel? I thought they were just beefy, but not hard.

 

[69_knives]

I don't know what the material the wrench is but it was a bugger to hammer out and needed to be water quenched to get fully hard... maybe W1, W2?? it had a logo 'W' inside a diamond if anybody knows what that might be made of please enlighten...

 

[Will52100]

Cool, I know how you feel, I think the old Japanese sword smiths had the rite idea, forge the blade, rough grind it and hand it off to someone else to finish! Then forge anouther!

 

[Keith Montgomery]

It's not bad that you'd rather forge blades than finish them, as long as you plan on finishing them at some point.

That looks like a lot to get done in one weekend.

 

[69_knives]

as long as you plan on finishing them at some point.

I think that since I can only forge outside in all of natures elements, I'll concentrate on forging during the nicer months and then I can hibernate inside during the winter and finish up knives and sheaths.