First blade....

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techna

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Well, first blade in more than 22 years that is. I can believe it has been that long since I have put steel to wheel, but it has. Of course I had to go all stupid and avoid starting "easy". No, I had to get it in my head that my first knife should be a big, hidden tang sub hilt fighter..GRUMBLE, MUMBLE, GRUMBLE. Though its not perfect, I am happy with my progress so far and I think it may be at least as nice as anything I did back in my early 20s.
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I really think you need to take a break..... looks wonderful and I'd really like to see some of that work from 20 years ago. :)
 
Thanks for all the kind words. Now if I can just keep from screwing it up before its finished!

Jason,
Blade is 440C. Old habits die hard.
Will,
I really either sold or gave away everything I made back then. The exceptions being very first knife, and the odd blade that was not good enough to sell or give away, but close enough to good that I never threw them away. I took this picture several years ago of just such pieces. The big First Blood copy was my first ever blade, and I ground it on a giant water cooled hard wheel that must have been 20" or better. Please remember when you look at that massive freaking hero knife, that I was a young man and very much enamored of the movie. Hell, there was no Internet back then and all I had to go on was a picture photo copied from Blade magazine. Man was I proud of that thing!
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the rambo was your first attempt? holy crap! you sir have a gift deal with it! :)

jake
 
Weren't we all into Rambo back then?

Ground on a 20" wheel? You must have been channelling Phil Hartsfield :p
 
She looks great man.

What you guys don't know is that he keeps lashing that Rambo knife to a bamboo pole and jumping out of trees to try and kill small animals in his front yard!

(He is my best bud - I can get away with making fun of him).

She looks ready for heat treat to me! ;)

TF
 
20 yrs off, and you only get better? I take 2 days off and I'm rusty as old barbed wire. Great looking grinds man!:thumbup:
 
Wow! I really appreciate the kudos!
bobbywett said:
20 yrs off, and you only get better? I take 2 days off and I'm rusty as old barbed wire. Great looking grinds man!:thumbup:
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I am not so sure I got better, but I do know I am more patient. It took me a long time to get this blade to where you see it now because I would either skip working on it altogether, or just put it down and walk away if I felt distracted by ANYTHING at all. (I am a toy obsessed, healthy, divorced, male, so there are LOTS of distractions.) In my younger days with the pressures of work and a new familly, I would have pushed through when things went badly because I felt the urge to make the most of the free time I had. Also, the desire to just finish was so strong that "good enough" was, well, too often good enough. Better equipment helps too. I have a full tilt KMG now, but even though I eventually ended up working on a Wilton Square Wheel back in the 80s, a lot of my blades were ground on one of these with a felt contact wheel.
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TF,
Gonna have to give up on jumping from trees with a "spear". I had ANOTHER incedent last night. This time my aim was good...But I am still having target identification problems and ended up killing a paper bag blowing in the wind. Hey, at least it was not another homeless dude looking for a place to sleep. Good thing my aim was off THAT time. Guess being beaten sensless by a scared, half empty wine bottle wielding, smelly drunk guy while I lay there with a busted leg and a torn scrotum is a small price to pay for accidently jumping on a guy from 27 feet with a spear.
No hobos were harmed in my efforts to be John Rambo.
 
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