First Stainless knife!

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NickBoyle

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Here's my first stainless knife I've made. It's.135 440C. I did the heat treat and sub zero soak myself. Actually did a group of three. The first one I took to destruction. Held up good I thought. Then I finished this one. I got an average of 60HRC. 7" OAL 2 3/4" of edge. Olive green micarta with black micarta pins. I also made the neck sheath for this one. Whatcha think? I followed Stacey's ht recipe.
 
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A nice simple clean design. I like the choice of pins with the green micarta. Pretty sheath too--holding 60 HRc is awfully good IMO, great first rodeo with stainless and your own HT. How did you handle the sub-zero quench?
 
I got 15 pounds of dry ice and made an alcohol slurry in a cooler I double insulated and soaked them in it. Worked out good.
 
NickBoyle, That is a very nice knife and good to see that some knife makers still choose 440-C as a knife steel.
 
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Good stuff. Now how is it that a guy doing his first stainless knives can get 60Rc from 440c and have it survive a beating when you weren't using some super secret "proprietary heat treatment" to get it up to a much more suitable 57Rc? :confused::D
 
NickBoyle said:
I got 15 pounds of dry ice and made an alcohol slurry in a cooler I double insulated and soaked them in it. Worked out good.
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That makes a lot of sense, I've seen Aaron Gough do something like that. Thanks for the intel!
 
I like it, I like the sheeth as well.
Just the logo is a bit large for my liking
 
I'll admit I don't have a top of the line hardness tester. It's just an Ames portable but it always comes out really close to the test block. It could be closer to 58-60rc. I just know the test blade did really well.

That was the smallest size that Ernie could make that logo. And I really liked it so I'll deal with it being big. 😁
 
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