Hand Forged

Osprey Knife & Tool · Dec 5, 2017

Saturday Paul Brach came over to use my TW90 to grind a fuller, he was nice enough to bring his forge since I do not have one yet so I had something to do while he was grinding.

Here is what I forged out, it had been a few years since I had done any serious forging, but if any of you remember this is how I started making knives before I started doing stock removal for the most part, It reminded me of why I started making knives in the first place and I really enjoyed myself, not to bad for a few year hiatus on forging. I plan on doing more forging soon once I can get a forge.

Here are a few pictures..

Here is the Forged piece at this point everything has been done with a hammer and fire.
it has a taper hammered into the tang and also has a distal taper to the blade

Here is a few pictures after cleaning it up on the grinder.

In this picture I did a quick etch so you could see the layers in the steel, the steel is 16 layer laminated Hitachi Blue Paper steel. The Blade is 10" long and has an overall length of 14 1/2"

Tutone · Dec 5, 2017

Very nice

Sweet looking blade for just “passing time”. Looking forward to seeing more forged blades from you. Bad ass anvil by the way

Sonnydaze · Dec 5, 2017

Really nice work.

Choppaman · Dec 5, 2017

That’s very cool Chris!!

prom52 · Dec 5, 2017

Keep this up and we'll be watching you compete on Forged in Fire in the not too distant future !

Osprey Knife & Tool · Dec 5, 2017

Tutone said:
Very nice Sweet looking blade for just “passing time”. Looking forward to seeing more forged blades from you. Bad ass anvil by the way

Thanks

Tutone ! I am looking forward to forging more, I have plans to build a forge soon! The Anvil is pretty sweet! Moves steel very efficiently.

Sonnydaze said:
Really nice work.

Thank you!

Choppaman said:
That’s very cool Chris!!

Thanks!

prom52 said:
Keep this up and we'll be watching you compete on Forged in Fire in the not too distant future !

Thanks Peter! Maybe, maybe not

Bmurray · Dec 6, 2017

very cool and that's an awesome anvil. I want one

Osprey Knife & Tool · Dec 6, 2017

Bmurray said:
very cool and that's an awesome anvil. I want one

Thanks Bob! The Anvil is one of my most prized possesions. I plan on keeping it until I take a dirt nap and then passing it down. It is definetly an Heirloom tool thats worthy of being passed down through the generations!