First official finished knife!

Daniel Fairly Knives

Daniel Fairly Knives

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I finished this one up today. It is not the first one I have ground, but it is my first finished heat treated knife!

It is 1/8" thick, just under 7" long. The handle material is horse stall mat and the tubes are stainless. It is hard to tell from the photos but the knife has a black ferric chloride patina with polished bevels. Chisel grind.

Any criticism or comments are appreciated.
 

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AcridSaint said:
I had assumed by your name and knifemaker title that you'd made knives before.
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Thank you for pointing that out. :)

No, I am not trying to be misleading here, that's why I am posting this and my other work. I have been a member for here for a couple years and thought it was time to pay for a membership. I plan on selling knives one of these days so I payed for the "knifemaker" membership and went ahead with a new name so I didn't have to pay to change it later. I may also sell some scale materials and firestarters on ocassion as well as customized production knives with stone scales. I have plenty experience with customizing manufactured knives, I planned on making lots to sell here but making knives from scratch is too fun.

I'm just pointing this out to be clear, I can see this title thing being misleading but it was just the default and I want everyone to know where I am at. I'm here to stay and this is officially #1!
 
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Daniel Fairly Knives said:
I finished this one up today. It is not the first one I have ground, but it is my first finished heat treated knife!
It is 1/8" thick, just under 7" long. The handle material is horse stall mat and the tubes are stainless. It is hard to tell from the photos but the knife has a black ferric chloride patina with polished bevels. Chisel grind.

Any criticism or comments are appreciated.
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Daniel,

Congrats on number 1, are you going to keep the knife?
Did you do the heat treating? just curious?:)

And what made you pick the handle material? As nothing wrong with it, just wondering why you used it?:)

Look froward to seeing many more..... :D:thumbup:

TA



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bigal2me said:
Daniel,

Congrats on number 1, are you going to keep the knife? Yes, got to keep #1.Did you do the heat treating? just curious?:) Sure did, I used a digitally controlled kiln and quenched in heated canola oil.
And what made you pick the handle material? As nothing wrong with it, just wondering why you used it?:) I have always wanted to use it, it is really grippy and feels great in the hand. I plan on using mostly G10 in the future but the stall mat seems like great stuff.
Look froward to seeing many more..... :D:thumbup: Thanks!
TA



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Thanks!
 
Nice Job. you went with a fairly difficult Grind In my opinion... Seems you ARE a knifemaker!

I have never heard of Horse stall mat being used as handle material, how does it compare to Neoprene?
 
RyanW said:
Nice Job. you went with a fairly difficult Grind In my opinion... Seems you ARE a knifemaker!

I have never heard of Horse stall mat being used as handle material, how does it compare to Neoprene?
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Thanks! :D

Here's some links about the stall mat, I heard it was first used in cutting competitions because of its grippy feel.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=741746&highlight=horse+stall+mat

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=670436&highlight=horse+stall+mat

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=618513&highlight=horse+stall+mat

It doesn't stain your hands at all, smells kind of good in a car tire kind of way :D , cleans belts as it grinds, and has a great feel.

I have g10 but the feel of this stuff is great, I had to try it first. I have never worked with neoprene but as far as feel goes this is much stiffer than the neoprene I have felt, it has more grip to it as well.
 
Looks good to me! I'm a huge fan of the chisel grind and I'd have to say that Jon Graham would probably approve too.

I was just about to reply that I'd read about stall mats being used for scales/handles on competition cutting knives when I saw that you'd already "handled" that nicely.;)

What's funny is that I was at a Tractor Supply store the other week and they had a stack of stall mats out front and I was immediately thinking "I wonder if that would be a good scale material?" But I do that when I lock eyes on almost anything that looks like I could cut a scale out of it.:D

Take care and keep 'em coming!

Taylor
 
LifeBlade.net said:
Looks good to me! I'm a huge fan of the chisel grind and I'd have to say that Jon Graham would probably approve too.

I was just about to reply that I'd read about stall mats being used for scales/handles on competition cutting knives when I saw that you'd already "handled" that nicely.;)

What's funny is that I was at a Tractor Supply store the other week and they had a stack of stall mats out front and I was immediately thinking "I wonder if that would be a good scale material?" But I do that when I lock eyes on almost anything that looks like I could cut a scale out of it.:D

Take care and keep 'em coming!

Taylor
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Thanks! I just looked up Jon Graham, his Razel model looks a lot like this! :D It goes to show how hard it is to make something truly original. Thank you Taylor for mentioning Jon Graham, I'm now a fan.

That's funny about the stall mat, I'm the same way, always on the lookout for materials. This summer I threw away an old printer but took the PCB out of it for scale material thinking it would work. Sure enough, I went to a knife show that weekend and saw a folder with the circuit board scales at the first table!

Thanks again for the compliments.
 
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