Hand ground W1 Integral

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cpirtle

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This one was a side project that I plan on keeping for myself, so it took a while to finish-up.

I picked up some 1" W1 drops last year here on the forum and have gotten a little tired of forging them out on the anvil, so I decided to play around with doing an integral. I don't have a mill so aside from the flute to hide the cordwrap's pull line (no bulge) and final finishing steps this one is 100% ground on the KMG.

I tried to leave a few area's to show its 1" diameter heritage. Final finishing was a high luster polished blue. Also, you may not there's no edge, I have not had a chance to sharpen it yet ;)

One of the pictures show it with a .17hmr Single Six I finished recently with a setp of CF over G-11 grips and a new holster. I think they go together well.

Thanks for looking!


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Thanks guys, I appreciate it!
 
Beautiful work. What is the finish? Looks almost BC.
 
Finish is listed---cold blue. :)

That is just unbelievably cool...
 
I want to know what grit he finished with. Looks like 2000 and sorta reminds me of the DLC 4" DDR Maxx I had.
 
Thanks everyone for all of the positive responses, they are truly appreciated.

Sorry for the delayed response, between time in the shop, a sick dog and going back to work after T-Day I've been pretty busy.

I didn't keep track of how long it took me but now that I've done it once I think I could reproduce in 4-6 hours before final buffing and finish. Keeping the blade and handle aligned from a round rod was the hardest part other than holding onto the dang thing.

The finish is indeed cold blue but it's Brownell's OxphoBlue which chemically is different than regular cold blue. I have been using this stuff on user knives for about 15 years and IMO it wears better than hot blue. It is best applied using oiled steel wool and polished up using 0000 if that's any indication. This particular finish was applied in about 15 treatments with burnishing between each step. It starts almost bronze, then goes to a Nitre Blue color then starts getting deeper.

Prior to blueing it was finised to about 600 grit and then buffed to a mirror finish. Luckily the design allowed for buffing without rounding edges since everything was already rounded ;)

Even in person it's hard to tell it from black chrome or polished DLC but it's closer to a Nitre-Blue color.

This is the first knife I ever tried to etch my logo on through a blue finish and using the deep setting on my Etch-o-matic produced a semi-bronze etch, better than expected.

I have a couple of other new designs I am finishing up sheaths for now, hope to post them by the weekend.

Thanks again!
 
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