First two forged knifes out of my backyard smithy. New one added!

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peppen108

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Crowned full flat grind with a micro convex edge. Oil hardened spring steel with a hardness at about 56. Screaming sharp, I've just trimmed my beard with i whit no mishaps. The are 6.5 inches in total and I call them general use craft knifes. Mainly precision work on leather, soft and medium hard woods and fabrics. Let me know if you like them! :)







 
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Tnx guys! I like making them and I have recived positive fead back from leather workers fine wood workers that ive given the prototypes. I've currently got a smal batch of a 20% larger version made of swedish tool steel. I don't know if its beacuse I was surrounded by smal strurdy sharp knifes but I just love them and find them so usefull. :) I think I have four 1" carbon steel blades (some with a barrel wood handle and some scalpel-shaped) in my chitchen and another five on strategic places around the house. Grab, use, strop on belt, put it back. Some have just been stropped for 5 years and have reaches a steady stade edge geometry and need no further sharpening or maintenanc to stay push shave sharp. :)
 
That was not what I expected to see for a first pair of forgings.

Pretty cool imo!
 
Glad you guys like them, sure means a lot. Gave one to a wood carver who helped a friend today, and he was giddy like a child.

@Frank
Just about every hunter I meet tell me to forge them a 3/4 skinner. Although I wold like to make forged skinners on day (or every day) the time just is not there with a full time work and a baby but I could make a knife like this with the forge finish ground of for hygiene and make a caper or field scalpel. Thanks for helping me widen my perspektive.
 
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I like them a lot. I was just the other night if someone was making something like this. And pow, there it is. Great job.
 
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