Heat blued iron furniture for Nick Wheeler...

[anvilring]

At least I think that's who asked about what sort of finishes people are useing for such. This bowie's guard is made from wagon wheel tire iron that I etched the fool out of; maybe left it in ferric for 30min.?? Then into baking soda and water to kill the acid, cleaned it off really good (absolutely NO finger prints or hints of oil of any kind...) then into the kitchen over at 400 or so degrees. I've tried this with a torch but somehow, the flame/gas thing retards the blueing. This is my "no glue" experiment knife, Sheffield fashion so to speak; even the escutcheon is pinned. The guard is driven on but I learned something: when it's right out of the oven, it is in an expanded state. I (with oven mit dawned) pulled it out hot to try it on the blade for looks and damned if it did'nt just nearly go all the way down! Cool! so now when I put on a guard such as this, I fit them cold and put them on hot; including nickel and brass guards. When they cool they are on really tight!!

regards, mitch

 

[Mike Hull]

Chill the blade in the freezer, while the guard is heating, and I bet it would go on all the way.

 

[happycat]

Thats one nice knife Mitch. Beautiful work! I like everything about it. What kind of wood is that? You've got this beautiful sort of cross hatch chitoyancy. Gorgous!!

Ed

 

[anvilring]

that's just good'ol American walnut. Of course, it is off the end of a $500.00 piece of raw wood! I love people with lots of money and relativley short arms. I've been buying stock end pieces and scraps from a custom stock maker with great success....


regards, mitch

For Mike Hull... now why didn't I think of that!!