Carter Cutlery intensive course

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Day 5 finishing our third personal knife design

Post hardening and tempering we ground our blades. First a hollow grind on the rotating waterstone and then a flat grind
I did a midway etching check to reveal the lamination. Murray finished our grinds as none of use have enough experience on the waterstone


Then I began my brass guard, a first for me


Silver solder and then cleanup


Cut some ironwood and then liners

 

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Day 5 continued

My wood was a bit short so we added a micarta spacer




Gluing handles
And that's as far as I got today


Will finish tmrw

 

[Lu1967]

Looks fun,thanks for sharing.

 

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Finished the class today at noon and got to about 90-95% finished on the third knife
I'll finish sand and buff the ironwood and home the edge at home.




Sanding and shaping the guard



More handle shaping


Peening the pins

 

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The guard is a little big coupled with the ironwood makes for a slightly handle heavy knife.

And so here it is and I'll try to finish it tmrw at home


Went to Oregon public house for lunch.

 

[JeridJohnson]

nice looking knife bud. looking forward to seeing it in person.

 

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nice looking knife bud. looking forward to seeing it in person.

Thx Jerid. I'll bring all 3 over soon and we can talk shop.

 

[Brock Cutlery]

The guard is a little big coupled with the ironwood makes for a slightly handle heavy knife.

And so here it is and I'll try to finish it tmrw at home
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Went to Oregon public house for lunch.

That's a real nice knife H, and a great post all in all. Very interesting to see all that went on in Carter's shop with your class. Thanks for taking the time to post it all up for us.

 

[Augus7us]

Very cool H! The class looked very informative and you made out with some nice knives!

I have to say I'd like to take a course with Murray because of his traditional Japanese techniques are so different from the norm, at least in some regards. And I like the tie to history, reading his book and watching some of his stuff online you can tell he's very passionate about keeping those traditions alive!

Thanks for sharing.

-Clint

 

[flatgrinder]

Awesome thread! Enjoy seeing other maker's shops! You looked like you had a great time!

 

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Awesome thread! Enjoy seeing other maker's shops! You looked like you had a great time!

Thanks Marcus. It was a lot fun. Here's the final knife fixed up a bit more

Utility knife with brass guard and black micarta spacer, 4.25" Sumimagashi blade, desert ironwood handle with brass pins.

 

[coldsteelburns]

That turned out very nice! :thumbup:

I really like the overall profile of it and the nice "warm" mix of materials you chose to use. It acually reminds me of a japanese style hunter, not because of the suminagashi or even because it was made in a japanese bladesmithing class lol, but it's how the blade is a bit longer and narrower than western style hunters, along with the saber grind. BTW, when I say "japanese style", I don't mean the traditional kanetsune type style with the premade rustic forged guards and the wooden sheath/scabbards (which I also really like), but more so the japanese interpretations of western style drop point hunters, you know..? lol :foot:

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to share you experience here with us, I can't say that I've ever seen a "live" thread on a Murray Carter course, so it was especially cool to see it from the perspective of another bladeforumite.

~Paul

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[islandblacksmith]

great coverage, nice to see you in the shop in action, keep it up!

...need a big stone wheel here one of these days, gotta figure out how to pedal or water power it...or run it on a herd of turkeys (^__^)

 

[kevy]

I want to tell you i own one of his neck knives and both sharpening videos,Murray is a master. i use my knife every day and it never lets my down. i would love to take his coarses but i'm way to far away i live in northern ontario Canada