First forged Blade

[Steve Nuckels]

My first post here!

My first forged blade finished! I forged this at the ABS Intro course at Haywood CC in Clyde NC.

MS instructors were Greg Neely & Burt Foster

10 3/4 OAL, Mild steel guard, stained curly maple coffin handle with silver wire inlay and scrimmed Whitetail antler.

Steve

 

[fivefold]

Dude, that is sweet! Nice work.:thumbup:

 

[midnight flyer]

Wow! Helluva first forge!

Nice work!

Robert

 

[Bushman5]

Wow!!

 

[Kevin Jones]

Filework, silver wire inlay, I'm impressed!
An excellent first effort and very fitting for a maker from Maryland. :thumbup:
And welcome to Blade Forums sir.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

Looks like you did very well.

 

[stabber]

Great job! It sure looks fantastic:thumbup:

 

[xaman]

That's a great looking knife, thanks for the pic :thumbup:

 

[geerts]

Top job.:thumbup:

G

 

[JParanee]

classy piece welcome to the forum

 

[lwrhea]

Steve, your hanging out in a tough neighborhood boy.

You did good job on that one. Really good.:thumbup: Lin

 

[Steve Nuckels]

Thanks for the warm welcome to the forum. I will be posting a spearpoint hunter soon!

Lin, nice to hear from you over here !

Steve

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IN GOD WE TRUST

 

[DaveRuhlig]

Quite nice. That must be one hell of an intro course! What type of steel did you use?
-Dave
www.ruhligknives.com

 

[RogerP]

Very nice work indeed. It may be your first forged piece, but it sure doesn't look to be your first knife.

Roger

 

[Steve Nuckels]

Quite nice. That must be one hell of an intro course! What type of steel did you use?
-Dave
www.ruhligknives.com

Thanks Dave! we used 1075 for our blades, and it was a hell of a Intro course!

Thanks Roger, I made 9 stock removal blades prior to this one!

Steve
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IN GOD WE TRUST

 

[tradhunter]

Good job Nuckels, hopefully mine will turn out as well as yours did.

 

[Mace]

That looks great! Love the maple...
Mace

 

[beluga]

I can see a lot of Moran's influences on this one. Very good Sir. Kudos to you.

 

[deker]

Looks good Steve. Where in MD are you? We've got several makers in the MD/PA/VA area...

-d