First Post and First WIP Teaser... a couple pics... Watcha Think?

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- kAd -

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This is just a couple pics of my first knife I'm working on. I'm planning on a full WIP upon completion.
1084 by hacksaw, files, misc hand tools, and a drill-driver(wish I'd done that by hand too)
At this point I'm roughed out and bevels shaped. Finishing, HT w hamon?, and apple scales to come....
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Welcome to Blade forums.

I see by your profile you work in detox. You must be a hardy soul, which makes you well suited to knife making.

What part of the country do you reside in?

Fred
 
Ha! yes patience...... is necessary :)

I live in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains! (stoked about spring of course :)
 
anyone think those divots in my handle will hurt me in a hole-in-the-ground-hairdryer-HT???
 
- kAd - said:
Ha! yes patience...... is necessary :)

I live in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains! (stoked about spring of course :)
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i used to live up there in pinetop by scotts resivoir. beautiful place wish my mom hadn't moved us to phoenix
 
kAd, welcome and great first post.

Great job on the profiling and filing on your first blade. The divots shouldn't cause too much trouble unless there are some sharp corners which may cause a stress riser during your quench. You may want to invest in a hardware store table-top drill press, though. ;)

Since you've been reading up on the forums, I'm going to take the "hole-in-the-ground-hairdryer-HT" as a poke in the ribs with a sharp stick just for grins. :D Since you've started out with 1084, I'm sure you know its basic heat treatment. You should be fine sending it out or taking it to just above non-magnetic and quenching in something like canola oil (heated to around 130F). You can temper in your home oven (let it come up to temp and stabilize for at least an hour before you put your blade in to reduce temperature swings). As for the hamon, my recommendation is to nail the heat treatment on this one without worrying about a hamon. Get the basic sequence and temperatures down first. Trying to worry about the clay and everything else just complicates your first heat treatment.

Keep it up and keep us posted!

--nathan
 
- kAd - said:
Ha! yes patience...... is necessary :)

I live in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains! (stoked about spring of course :)
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Spent my honeymoon traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway with my new wife in 75. We were traveling in a fully restored 53 Chevy coup. Great part of the country. Enjoy spring!

Fred
 
Welcome. Filling out your profile and location will be a big help.

The sticky "How To Instruction for Making a Knife", has a lot of info that will help you.

The holes and divots won't be a problem in HT. With some care to the air flow not making the pit too hot, a "Hole in the ground" forge will do Ht on 1084 just fine. Make sure you use a magnet to determine when the steel reaches about 100 degrees below what you want it to be.
 
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Maybe I misunderstood the hole in the ground concept. :) If you're building a forge in the ground with a hairdryer as a blower, then yeah...that will work :D. Sorry if I misunderstood you. I've seen so many "I'm going to harden this in my brother's toaster oven" threads over the years that I have become jaded.

--nathan
 
silver_pilate said:
Maybe I misunderstood the hole in the ground concept. :) If you're building a forge in the ground with a hairdryer as a blower, then yeah...that will work :D. Sorry if I misunderstood you. I've seen so many "I'm going to harden this in my brother's toaster oven" threads over the years that I have become jaded.

--nathan
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Hmmm... my brother has a toaster oven.... maybe if I overclock it... ;)
 
I like the blade profile, and admire your patience. I did my first couple with the tools u used, but I didn't really have the patience to profile my knife as good as you have. You are off to a good start. Looking forward to seeing the progress.
 
Unless I missed his meaning:
You dig a hole in dry dirt ( some folks line it with adobe) place a pipe with a 6" row of 1/4" holes drilled in it near the end. Run the pipe down a trench to the "bowl". Put charcoal or wood in the bowl and get the coals going, put a hair dryer in the pipe end as a blower. Works pretty well.

A good trick is to drill several 3/4" holes in the pipe near where the hair dryer will be placed. Put tape over them. If the air supply is too high, untape them one at a time until the bed of coals is just right. You can cover and uncover them as needed.
 
bladsmth said:
Unless I missed his meaning:
You dig a hole in dry dirt ( some folks line it with adobe) place a pipe with a 6" row of 1/4" holes drilled in it near the end. Run the pipe down a trench to the "bowl". Put charcoal or wood in the bowl and get the coals going, put a hair dryer in the pipe end as a blower. Works pretty well.

A good trick is to drill several 3/4" holes in the pipe near where the hair dryer will be placed. Put tape over them. If the air supply is too high, untape them one at a time until the bed of coals is just right. You can cover and uncover them as needed.
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Exactly! had not heard about the hole on the supply side, great idea!
 
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