Girly edc wip

[oldanvilyoungsmith]

Doing another girly edc for the other sister, and I though I'd post the proccess here so ya'll can laugh at me.

The knife is going to be Kelly cupples 1080, handled with pink/purple denim twist micarta.


4'x1"x1/8" bar of 1080 (it's so purty!)

Hot works best

getting a handle

Marked!

It's shorter

get the point?

After forgin the bevels, personally I like this shape, but sissy said no.

So we give a spearpoint.

(little chisel for cutting in my makers mark)

This is to show that the 1080 has been tested and approved by the new shop assistant, Boots.

If you look at the area on the handle right before the blade, I don't like that transition, not very good looking. So, let's clean it up with the bench grinder.

That's better

Clamped in the super special custom made clamping rig that I made

Go ahead and start cleaning it up with a 36 grit flapwheel in an angle grinder

Hit the blade (we'll hit the bevel better later). Flip it over and hit the other side (no pics)

Clean up the spine and edge, and handle.

That's better

Now to bevel

That's a bevel. Other side too (no pics)

Filing time!

After filing I go ahead and use my better than a KMG sander on it. I'm gonna be taking it through 36 grit, to 120 grit.

After 36 (sorry, no pics of 120)

Now to even it all with hand sanding at 120

Looking better

(the angle disguises the bevel)

Other side

Almost ready for HT

 

[oldanvilyoungsmith]

beginning prep work on the micarta



As you can see I cut out all the places that weren't solid cloth.

Gotta get it all kind of flat

Cutting it. As you can see I clamped it hanging off of my clamping jig. in that position I was able to cut the marked section with a jigsaw.

The cut out blanks, you can see I cut extra around where I marked the lines. The sander is set up to flatten them better. (the good thing about this sander is that the wide belt and large platen are good for flatting things like this).

Flattened scales with the knife.

Drilling (use a cutting oil for longer bit life)

It's a holy knife! Ok... I'm not funny, I'll quit the jokes.

The scales drilled (holes do correspond with the ones in the knife) and held together
with some 3/32" rod. Ready to start shaping the front.

That rasp I'm using is actually a horse hoof rasp. It hogs off wood or micara like nothing.

While shaping; the knife was cooling from normalization heats

Heating for next normaalization. My method of heating is to stick that square tube in the fire, turn on the blast and heat the whole thing. Then turn it off and stick the knife in. That let's it soak up the heat slowly. And it creates very little scale.

Preheating oil

hot oil

Quenched

Test etch!

I went ahead and sanded it to 220 grit, and then decided I wanted to see the quench line. It's only a rudimentery etch, I hope to make it pop better after being done better.


This is my school desk, also, it's my finishing area. For doing things like this, etching and such. (yeah, it's messy too)

The knife sanded to 220

My old diluted ferric. I think I'll refresh it soon. That day long etch for the wrought chunk seems to have weakened it or something.

After etch, pre oxide removal

The photos are after removing oxides with a thumb and paste polish I picked up from auto zone this morning.

Getting my Hamon on!


First, I polished it up to 1000 grit. Going through 120, 220, 320, 400, 600, 800, 1000.

At 320 I started using oil while polishing.



Coated with a nice slurry

At 1000 grit (it took wee bit longer than I just made it look like)

After buffing to mirror with my dremel and some green buffing compound

My etching set-up. Plastic tray, hot lemon juice, knife, and cotton ball in a little clip. (knife has been washed, wiped with acetone, and then wiped with acetone again).

After rubbing with hot lemon juice for 15 minutes, oxides not removed.

Oxides removed, first etch.

Second etch, oxides removed.

 

[kimsalls]

Great WIP. Gotta love the grinder.

 

[oldanvilyoungsmith]

Thanks, I'm saving up to get a Grizzly, hopefully sometime in the next few months.

 

[giant1]

Cool WIP, looking forward to the end result.

 

[ddd]

Well documented Work-In-Progress process. I am now curious
to see the finished knife!

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)

 

[Mossyhorn]

You may be able to use these oldanvilyoungsmith.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/845552-Knife-Makers****Heads-Up

 

[D lisch]

very cool WIP thank you

 

[oldanvilyoungsmith]

getting a handle on things


Prepping tand and scales -


Divots drilled in the tang and scales

Clamps, epoxy, knife, scales, and q-tip for acetone

clamped

pre-shaping

Shaping

Handle shaped but not finished. Still need to finish sand, and then do the superglue coat.

 

[theflyingplatypus]

I really like this WIP. It shows how much you can do with very few tools (a compliment). Good job and keep at it.

Kaleb

 

[maethor]

Dude, that's GREAT! I like it. Amazing with what little equipment you're making that knife, I thought you needed all that fancy crap like different belt sanders, bench grinders and so on. Thanks for sharing!

 

[rocketmann]

Looking good .

 

[Km190]

Really awesome WIP thread you got going here. great job so far!

 

[abcdef]

Fascinating. It's easy to see why everyone does not make knives.

 

[oldanvilyoungsmith]

Sorry, nothing new on the knife yet. Had an SAT Saturday, and Sunday I was making a mothers day gift.

Heres a little peak of the gift. Go here to see the rest.

 

[argel55]

Did I miss the tempering step? What temp did you temper at. Youd did an excellent jjob of doing it the hard way and come out with a very nice blade.

 

[oldanvilyoungsmith]

I tempered at 375 and then 400. I didn't really mention it, all it did was sit in the oven for a few hours, so it was kinda boring.

 

[the kid]

I like it.

Now where's the rest?!

 

[omniviking]

thanks for showing this knife in progress, GREAT JOB!

 

[oldanvilyoungsmith]

Update!

I just finished the final buffing of the handle, pics tomorrow afternoon.