Forged blades in the works

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Just wanted to show you some of the blades I'm working on, I hope tjat the gallery is the right place to do that.

These are all the blades I'm working on right now ( except two, they're out for heattreatment) :

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A 20 layer bowie that I nearly destroyed during grinding. The grinder grabbed it several times, and I had to change my original plans for it.

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My first forged blade. I ground it yesterday, I was to ill to go to school but not to ill to grind some steel . Thats always annoying my mother :D.

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This one is a 3 (5) layer piece. I had something japanese for it on my mind, so I gave it a somewhat japanese grind.
It was quite a challenge in grinding, but for the first time everything in grinding worked out the way I planed it.
This was my 12th knife on the beltgrinder (and 14th overall) and I'm quite happy now that I figured out how to use it correctly :).

If you take a closer look on the last pic, you can not only see the "welding line" between the outer two layers (which are of the same steel) but also a grain structure which is running along the layer.

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Looking forward to your comments.

Marcus
 
I love the style of the small bowie blade and would love to see it in the three layer material. You show an amazing amount of talent.
 
Thanks for your comments and compliments.

I'm 16 years old and started knifemaking about a year ago.

I made my first two knives with files, but then I decided that a beltgrinder would be a good thing to own :D.

So far I made all in all 17 blades and finished (putting on a handle ) 7 of them.

I learned knifemaking by myself and sometimes it was quite difficult because I never did any handcrafting before (my former hobby was drawing :D ).

About half a year ago I became interested in forging, I bought some books and got interested more and more. So about a month ago I asked a bladesmith I got to know on the internet if could come and visit him.
He said "No problem !" and 5 days later I took the train and travelled about 200 km to get to him.

And then it was two days non stop forging, that was absolute fun. Although my arm felt pretty heavy after these two days :D .
But for the hard work there's the power hammer, so I was able to make a lot of blades to finish at home. I did most of the work myself, only if something was about to go wrong he helped me to correct the mistakes.

Forgewelding was a lot easier than I had imagined and now I'm totaly addicted to bladesmithing and pattern welding. So I'm building my own little forge shop right now and I nearly can't wait to forge again.

Here's a pic of me working with the power hammer :

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Now you know at least a bit how I look like, hopefully not too bad ;).

Marcus
 
Where in the world did you come up with that size of hammer?!? :cool:

YOU DA MAN!!! :D

No wonder you're laminating steel and making all that Damascus! :eek: :)
 
Fantastic grinds!! I look forward to seeing them finished. What kind of grinder are you using for your blades?
 
It's too bad that you have to take the train for the 125 miles. Maybe one of these days I'll go out into my dad's shop (in the backyard) and ask him to teach me to forge something. Right now I'm just a lazy kid. I had no idea people wanted to forge so badly, with the shop right in the backyard I guess.
 
Note that the side of the hammer is a blackboard - even has drawings of the crystal structure of iron......Very good start Markus !
 
Thanks a lot to all of you.

@ Dudley:
That one's just a small one, Peter (the smith, by the way this is his homepage: www.lindenschmiede.de) is thinking about buying a larger one :D.
Such a power hammer come's in real handy for drawing and stretching billets.

@ Michael:

I'm using this combination of belt and benchgrinder:
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Mine looks a bit different and I modified it, I put a grinding platen under the belt, removed the abrasive wheel to use it as buffer too and added the little toolrest you can see her.

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It came from the benchgrinder and it is quite crapy to use because of my improvised construction. But it's still better than nothing. One day I'm going to build a proper tool rest.

Thanks again, I realy enjoy posting here.

Marcus
 
Marcus, you keep right on doing what you are doing! Welcome to our forum, too. You keep right on posting, and we are looking forward to hearing from you, to say the least.
 
Hi Marcus,

For a 16 year old....i'd say your work is more mature then your age! I like what i'm seeing so far and if the layered japanese style grind knife is not spoken for, do drop me an email and i'll help work out some extra pocket money for you. Thanks! ;)

Eric.
 
Very nice work Marcus. I am very impressed with your knives.
I very much like your first forge blade.
Keep up the great work.

Don Hanson :D
 
Marcus...great looking blades!Nice to see a young guy like you having an intrest in working with his hands.Seems like you may be on a lifelong path,Keep up the great work :D
 
For a 16-year-old lad, Marcus, you have shown great potential and enormous talent.
Time will tell whether you will be excellent or simply great.

Keep up the good blade work but don't forget your books. Believe me, it helps eventually.
 
As they say in my native Britain "Gobsmacked" Wow! that is impressive! Even more so when your age is taken into consideration.
 
Thanks again. You really know how to encourage someone :D.

I'm sorry that I haven't replied to all of your mails so far. I've been on a little vacation trip with my parents. I'm going to answer them as fast as I can.

I'v got some new blades, which I forged on a Hammer-In.
I did the forging all on my own (well, except the damascus :D it was a scrap piece I had laying around). Next time I have to pay attention not to forge to many "pits" in the blade, because they are quite difficult to take out during grinding.

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(I just sanded it and gave it a quick etch to see how the pattern comes out)

This was, by the way, my first succesfull freehand flatgrind without the little toolrest.

Marcus.
 
Marcus you are the man!! you have some amazing tallent no matter what your age. exelent work!!

....justin
 
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