Forging at last

[David Schott]

My very first fixed blade....not my first knife since I had done a large number of serious kit modifications...but first sole authorship....terrible hand sanding....but I still have it and use it!

I think its also personal experience. I did a lot of woodworking with my father as a child, did a ton of custom model making, did some jewelry, so knives were somewhat of an extension of all those.

 

[Fiddleback]

Yep that knife blows my first efforts away hands down. Its truly beautiful. Good design too.

 

[Astrodada]

Is that an ergonomically fitted grip missile ?

 

[David Schott]

I dunno what it is! It fits my little hand like a glove. I used to go crazy with finger grooves:

 

[Astrodada]

Geesss ! Alien invades again !!!!!!! With differential hardenning !

:thumbup:

 

[Fiddleback]

Another beauty Tik! Nice.

 

[David Schott]

My views have varied on finger grooves. Hard to do without being fully custom to the user's hand....plus its a function of intended use....I wouldnt want to be cutting witha fully grooved knife for hours, if you know what I mean...

Didnt mean to derail the thread! Back to forging....

 

[Outdoors]

Tik
Beautiful work!

RE quiet forging - have you considered a flypress?
They are supposed to be noiseless. Here's a few links I stumbled across:

http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/punch_die/top_index.htm
http://www.frontiernet.net/~gnreil/flypress.shtml

Pat

 

[munk]

Very startling style. Well done.




munk

 

[Yvsa]

That's a really pretty knife TikTock!!!!:thumbup: