First 3 Knives

[oldschool45]

Finally finished my first 3 knives. The wharnie’s are 3/16th 1095 and the boning/filet knife is 1/16th 1095 as is the one I broke to test the hardness. They were stock removal & shaped with just about everything; 4” belt sander, 1” Harbor freight sander, files, hacksaw, dremel tool, drum sender and angle grinder. Heat treat was wood fire assisted by a gas lawn blower using a visual color scale for a 5 minute soak and quenched in McMaster Carr 11 second quenching oil heated to around 150’F. Tempering was done in the house oven between 2 aluminum ¼ sheet pans to help stabilize the ovens natural cycle around 375’F for 2 hour and a half cycles. The wood is all dymondwood, 1/16Th “pins up front, hidden ¼” pin about mid section and the thong tubes are the same ¼” brass rod that I made into thong tube with a drill press and I used Loctite 5 minute epoxy. They ain’t perfect but they are users. I just want to thank Jason Carter for the moral support and Kevin for the stickies with all the info.
Leather is mine too.

 

[Edro20]

That's awesome, Oldschool45! Keep it up. Uh Oh, looks like you lost one in the quench

 

[oldschool45]

Edro20, Thanks.
The loss was bitter sweet, yeah I lost a blade but it proved that the steel had hardened. My previous attempt at hardening didn’t get hot enough and the blades didn’t harden. What amazes me is how much flex I can get out of the boning knife after tempering. I can almost get a 90’ bend out of that blade on the cutting board.
I’m looking to make 4 more kitchen knives as Christmas presents. A few hardened 1084 beer bottle openers (monogrammed) and a 1084 wannabe washiki for my self.

 

[Mike Morehouse]

Very good looking knives for your first attempts. My first knife that I made was raffled off for a good cause.

Mike Morehouse