Forging Again #2 & #3

[nc_cooter]

Here's #2, Turtle and Sun scalper

#3, Four Crosses hunter

Thanks for looking,
Mike

 

[Phil Dwyer]

I sure like your Four Crosses Hunter knife (#3). Well done. Keep it up! Thanks for posting.

 

[Fred.Rowe]

I like what your are doing with your sheaths. Real creative. Something different.

Fred

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Looking very good. Glad to see you're able to get back into it.

 

[Dan Pierson]

I agree, the sheaths are great.

I also really like the Four Crosses hunter. What are the fittings? Blued mild steel?

 

[nc_cooter]

Thanks for all the kind words. After the broken shoulder, I thought my forging days were over. Heck, I even had to build a little platform to stand on to use my grinder comfortably. Trying to forge was painful in both application and results.

I found an article written by a blacksmith from Israel, Mr Hoffi, showing a somewhat different technique of forging. It is based around a hammer of his design.Cut to now, the technique helped me a lot. I couldn't afford his hammer.

My sheaths have been evolving toward the old rendezvous style, or at least my take on that style. I watch a lot of shows on the History channel.

Dan, the guard and butt cap are from an old buggy tire and the spacer is a piece of 3/4" black pipe that was filed and then squashed in a vise to an oval shape. They are not blued. Just etched in ferric chloride.

Mike

 

[Stuart Willis]

Dang Mike. Those look good and your worried about forging after you hurt the shoulder. All I can say you have come back full force.

 

[sunshadow]

They look nice! welcome back

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