First forged knife attempt

[Rat Finkenstein]

comments welcome

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Good forging project. I think the link could be cleaner. It seems to have a lot of adds and other videos running on it. It would be best to just post te image only using te photo posting methods in The Stickys.

 

[Taz]

I like the overall design! What size round did you start with? I got a bunch of short end cuts of 1084 a while back (around 2"-2.5" long, around 1" diameter) that I need to forge out one of these days!

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

Good forging project. I think the link could be cleaner. It seems to have a lot of adds and other videos running on it. It would be best to just post te image only using te photo posting methods in The Stickys.

sorry, I don't ever see ads I didn't know there was any. fixed it.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

I like the overall design! What size round did you start with? I got a bunch of short end cuts of 1084 a while back (around 2"-2.5" long, around 1" diameter) that I need to forge out one of these days!

I think it was inch and a quarter or inch and a half, about 3 inches long from an old axle.

 

[Taz]

That's a good chunk of steel to move! Did you do it by hand or power hammer/press?

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

That's a good chunk of steel to move! Did you do it by hand or power hammer/press?

It was by hand and made me wish for a press.

 

[Taz]

I feel your pain! I did some 1 1/4" Cable by hand and it wasn't too bad. But I have some 1.5" cable and I haven't tried it yet! LOL.

 

[Bigburly912]

Nice job!