gentleman's desk knife

[koyote]

This little blade is a whole lot of learning experiments.

The blade is rebar. I've spark tested and quench tested and it works great. sparks like 5160. Gets hard and draws well. I tried to forge to shape which is A: hard and B: really hard with something this tiny - nonetheless I did okay and hit most of the shape on the anvil.

OAL is 6.25 with a 3 inch blade.

bolster and pommel are bronze forged down from stock and then hand filed for fit. Mantra for bronze work is "dull red" "dull red". Trick- if you are close on fit but a touch gappy and the gaps are even, bang it. it'll close up. Handle is wengewood.

I made this for my grandfather in law, and it's off in the mail. He's an accomplished sculptor and artist and I hope he likes it.

 

[boltman]

:thumbup:if he dosent like it send it my way

 

[J.S. Carter]

Very Nice! Rebar is touchy some will be very close to 5160 and other times it's worse than A36

 

[lambertiana]

Nice. It's not often that I see bronze, and I like it a lot better than brass.

 

[koyote]

Very Nice! Rebar is touchy some will be very close to 5160 and other times it's worse than A36

yah, since it's all jobsite scraps I spark test each piece before even thinking about using it.

If I've got a bundle of matched stuff I do some quench tests, too.

Lambertiana:

I love bronze. I got really lucky and was handed 5 pounds of forging bronze. Of course, first hit is free....

 

[Jack O'Neill]

that's cute , and I always thought the only good use for rebar was to weight tarps down