Extremely Old new Knife.....

Raymond Richard

Raymond Richard

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Been working on this one for few days now. The reason I'm calling this extremely old is since there's nothing new that was used for material in the construction of this knife. The ring is made from welding rod but I plan on trying to make some wire out of the wagon wheel wrought iron to replace it to match the other fittings. The blade is 3 1/2" made from a very old shear steel saw blade and the osic, who knows how old that is. Total length on this one is 8 3/4"....
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Man, that is a really fine looking knife!!
I've never worked with oosic but after seeing how nice you finished this piece I'm going to have to find some.
Is the guard/ferrul in front of the handle integral?
 
The ferrul is wrought iron although it looks like it could be integral. I domed the front of the ferrul and the blade is inset, first time I ever tried something like that. I'm going to see if I can get a close up of the blade, this one has really got a nice pattern in it. The shear steel is really strange stuff, there is no pattern in the hardened area.....
 
That a beauty Ray,

I have an old kitchen knife made from shearsteel.Takes and keeps a nice edge. I love the grooves.Look like you did the on a lathe.

Mark
 
INSPIRING! I love your knives, Ray. You have a wonderful sense of design and there's a certain living-ALIVE quality to your work. Very nice!
 
You know I'm not sure where these knives are comming from. I'm not the type person to sit down and draw something out and put a bunch of thought into doing something before I do it. I have a general idea when I'm at the forge, I normally know I'm going to forge a knife blade and thats about it. Get the blade finished and go to my handle stash and find what will work best for the blade and just go from there.

Mark, I have no lathe, just a drill press but it doubles as a vertical lathe at times. The old kitchen knife with the shear steel can you see a pattern in it? I wish I had a bunch of that steel. The piece I've got is in such bad shape but it still works.
 
Ray this thing has what looks like 100 years of patina on it. I make out a faint pattern though. It looks similar to your picture. the hardened edge doesnt show anything.

Mark

If you want to see a nice pattern in some steel. Try to find the steel bars that are inside concrete trucks that stir the mix when it turns. looks like wootz with lines in it. Wish I could find a steady source. Supposedly it 1095 modified.

Mark
 
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