Finally finished my two hiking blades...

Macchina

Macchina

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I have been working for a while on making two knives for hiking. I will likely choose between one or the other, instead of bring both because I feel they overlap in uses (neither are for chopping, even though the larger knife does a decent job; I hike with a Hatchet or Silky). The blades are made from 3/16" O1 Heat treated in a forge I set up at work and quenched in motor oil. The handles are green G-11, a cousin of G-10. The knives and sheaths are rough (especially the sheaths), but I plan on using these. I chopped, stabbed and twisted, pried, and cut some logs at my house until I was very content that the heat treat went well and they will hold up in the wilderness. I originally left the scale on after heat treat, but removed it after some thought (I regret removing it...).

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This is what they looked like originally:
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Nice job man! the look good w/ or w/out the scale! I need to make me a knife.......
 
Those look good dude. I agree they looked better with the scale on, but I guess the O1 patina will cure that eventually.
 
They look really good. I don't care much for the G-11 stuff, but your workmanship is outstanding. Good job.
 
Thanks for all the complements everyone! These are my 5th and 6th knives I've made. I work in the machine building industry, so metal work is very familiar to me. It was only a matter of time before I started making knives.
I made the "perfect camp knife" last year, but broke my right hand about a month after it was finished. My hand healed funny and it didn't fit me anymore.
This was my first knife I made:
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And I finished this one earlier this year:
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nice looking knives...

am i wrong or did you post somewhere that you used a CNC mill to grind these out? and if so does that include the bevels?
 
I'm a little partial to your first set - just in terms of the shape and that little bit of clip point just works for me. They all look really good though. I like the scales on - they're just purty when they're dirty....
 
Yup, I drew up the knives in CAD and cut out the profile and roughed the bevels on a CNC mill. The handle scales were also roughed on the CNC. I finished the bevels and convexed the edges on a sander.
 
Those both look great. I love wide, flat ground blades. I find those most usefull.
 
michaelmcgo said:
Thanks for all the complements everyone! These are my 5th and 6th knives I've made. I work in the machine building industry, so metal work is very familiar to me. It was only a matter of time before I started making knives.
I made the "perfect camp knife" last year, but broke my right hand about a month after it was finished. My hand healed funny and it didn't fit me anymore.
This was my first knife I made:
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wanna sell that one?
 
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