Blades on Ice......

Raymond Richard

Raymond Richard

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With the crappy weather we have been having I've spent alot of time at the forge, grinding, and heat treating. All these blades are from the last 3 weeks. I'm hoping to start getting some finished now. Looks like we may have another day of the cold stuff and then back to or normal winter weather. Tried to arrange the blades better but some of them slid around on the ice.
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Geez... Your 3 weeks is more than double my total production for the last five years. Good on ya!

Rick
 
I think I can figure out what the L 6 stands for, but what do the other letters mean?

Great looking stuff.Hope you can show us how they look when finished.
 
You know I actually missed one of the small blades for this photo. As for the steels. The ones with MET or M on them are from Nash Metro leaf springs. I'm still not sure about what steel it is but I'm pretty impressed with it so far. I'm going to get it analized in a month or so. I know for sure it isn't like anyother spring steel I have ever used. Got a couple 1065 blades in there. The 3 with the SH on them are shear steel and the rest are different types of saw steel. On the average with most the larger blades I can get 3 forged out, ruff ground and 2/3 of the way heat treated if I stay out in the shop till 10PM or so. The little blades I was able to do 8 forgings before my arm got sore. Not long ago there was a post on hammers. I know big came up several times but hammer controll is by far the most important.
 
*points gun at Ray*

PUT THE HAMMER DOWN, SIR, AND STEP AWAY FROM THE ANVIL!

Geez Ray, you are making us look bad! This are some fine looking blades though. I really like your style. :eek:
 
Jeff, Thats funny! I can see that on "Cops" or "Dragnet"......

You know I looked at this picture and happened to think of all the round stock I forged since I've been making. All these are out of flat, except for the smallest blade. I really learned alot from doing the round stock. I guess the number one thing I learned is with flat stock the blade is all ready there. You just need to find it.....
 
Man that is impressive. That's about as many knives as I've ever made... It's going to be fun watching as these get finished out. Thanks for showing us what can be done with a little work!

Dave
 
And he was just kind of PLAYING AROUND! Jeff, that was good! Dang! Those are gonna be good knives, we know for sure,Ray.
 
My intent yesterday was to start finishing off some knives. I've been doing alot of experimenting with clay, infact all in the picture were clay treated. I had one that I was wanting to go ahead and finish but after hitting it quick with the grinder and then a quick etch I had noticed that I didn't get it all the way in the quench so I redid it and didn't want to use my ht oven on one blades so I ended up forging another one so it had some company. I plan on having something finished in a couple days. My arm is about forged out......
 
I've been out in the shop most the morning. A little grinding, a little rubbing, a little etching and alot of head scratching. I don't know where to start or which one to do first. I do much better with a pile of 2 or 3 blades....
 
Originally posted by Raymond Richard
I've been out in the shop most the morning. A little grinding, a little rubbing, a little etching and alot of head scratching. I don't know where to start or which one to do first. I do much better with a pile of 2 or 3 blades....
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:D that's called befuddled Ray :D
 
yeahup befuddled time:(
5 hours can go bye real fast on this damn thing..:( :)

back to work I'm gone.
 
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