beat the snot out of some 1084 today

oldold442

oldold442

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after a long time, at least 4 months of gathering the stuff, like the anvil, making the forge, making the kmg clone, modifying the bandsaw to cut metal, i finially got to swing a hammer for the first time. never done it before, and for sure didn't know what i was doing, but after an hour or two of hammering, it sort of looked like a knife, so i figured i was done. went to the grinder for about an hour, and started to look pretty good. was kind of anticlimatic..
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it looks better in the picture than in person, but with a little more work, i think i will be happy with it. thinking of putting some green canvas micarta, or curly maple handles on it. i thought about doing a hidden tang, but wasn't sure how, so went with the full tang..
 
I like how you secured your anvil to the stump. Never thought of that. I'm gonna have to do that to my "stump-anvil combo", too.:thumbup:
 
just a couple of left over pieces of 1/2 plate left over from the kmg clone, and some 1/2 x 5 inch galvanized lag bolts. it really worked great, i have to admit
 
It looks like a great knife blade but with some narrowing at the tang it would be a terrific spear head. I dont know anybody making them and I bet they would sell.
 
how did you get the edges so uniform???

Wow I really suck(my blades are sooooooo un-uniform)!!!
 
i did it freehand with the 10 inch grizzly based attachment that i made for my clone grinder. this is the platen i made with ceramic backing. will try to get a pic of the 10 inch setup. had practice with my first knife that i made by stock removal...
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