Another Spear Point

[HardedgeKnives]

SPECS:
Steel: 3/16" thick 1095
Blade: 4.3" long tip to Micrta and bright but not mirror finished
Overall Length 9"
Handle: Brown canvas Micarta on the knifes full tang.
Sheath: Black Kydex sheath IS included but not shown. It is setup to take a standard Tek Loc.

Price: WITH DRAWN plus $5 shipped in US.
I prefer PayPal (my account is kelley_ward@keysight.com) but take money orders, checks and other forms of payment.
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[tinfoil hat timmy]

Wow! Smoking deal here. I gotta ask though, as I've seen other offerings from you differentially heat treated. Is his brought hardened or is it differentially treated?

Thanks!

 

[HardedgeKnives]

Hello tinfoil hat timmy, Not sure what you mean by "Is his brought harneded", maybe a couple of typo's? "It this bought hardened?" Anyways I make all my blades from either stock removal or forging methods, this one is a stock removed blade. I use different techniques to differentially heat treat but prefer either the clay heat treatment or flame hardening. This one is flame hardened and accomplished by heating just the edge (about 1/3 a way up) to a the critical temperature (non magnetic) and quench in canola oil. The blade is tempered at 375 degrees F and results in a hard but very though blade. Kelley

 

[Severance]

My guess is that he was asking if it was "through hardened"?...either way, this is a great deal, and I wish I had the funds. I have a spearpoint Little Storm from you that I love dearly...a ton of knife for very little $$$.

 

[HardedgeKnives]

Hello Severance, I'd never heard the term "through hardened", even though I've been making knives for 28 years. I Googled it and found it was contrasted against case hardening which is used for low carbon steel. Through hardening is the technique I used to selectively hardened edge.

I used to forge rebar into knives as a novelty; like railroad spikes. A few of them I case hardened by wrapping them in stainless steel burrito full of a case hardening compound I purchased. They stainless wrap kept the carbon from burning away by keeping it away from oxygen and the knife was cooked at 1600 degrees F for 4 hours. According to the literature the carbon enriched the surface to a depth greater than 25 thousands on both sides of the blade. Since I grind the edges to 35 thou they should have complete penetration. I learned quite a bit from doing this and it was fun but not worth the effort considering a rebar knife doesn't have much value .
Kelley