Help me WIP my 2nd knife into shape

[Richard Coyle]

Next thing is probably going to be a bigger version of the one I just finished.
I think I’ll try flat grinding or maybe flat and hollow ground. We’ll see.
I’m probably going to try to re-grind a friends knife soon also.

 

[Richard Coyle]

Wow, that turned out great!
Nice plunge and crisp bevel to flats transition.
What's next?...

That’s a hell of a 2nd knife!

Thanks guys!

 

[FredyCro]

Sweet, a lots of good stuff going on. Amazing job for your first knife.

How does the handle feel? It looks a bit short maybe. I am also not a big fan of the butt shape but that depends on the taste. Maybe try something more classic on the next one?

 

[Richard Coyle]

Sweet, a lots of good stuff going on. Amazing job for your first knife.

How does the handle feel? It looks a bit short maybe. I am also not a big fan of the butt shape but that depends on the taste. Maybe try something more classic on the next one?

The handles feels good, I agree that it is short; I have small hands though, so it fine for me.

Also I agree about the butt, it’s a wonky combinations of flat and rounded... I’ll change it up on the next knife. I think it would look good with a nice deep chamfer and flatter handles, But we’ll see. I might change the butt shape altogether.

 

[Richard Coyle]

And sheath making. I need to learn how to do that.

 

[scott kozub]

Fantastic job. Looks great

 

[Richard Coyle]

Fantastic job. Looks great

Thanks man!

And thank you all for your help and suggestions.

 

[Richard Coyle]

This is my third knife.

It’s hollow ground near the edge and flat ground towards the spine. Evidently I ground the edge too thin before ht because it warped a tiny bit during the quench. I clamped pieces of metal on either side of the edge to correct it and it worked pretty good. It was tempered twice, 2 hrs (First hour 410 then up to 425 w/o taking it out) then 2 hrs at 425.

I took it out and went to beat on it to see if it would hold up.


It broke:

Actually the little piece along the edge broke first and I broke the rest to see the grain structure.
What’s weird though is where it broke the first time
One would think that there would be clean metal along the length of the whole break but here, it’s not. I’m at a loss, I didn’t see any cracks when I got it out of the temper...
What do you think happened?

Here’s pictures of the grain structure:

Does this look ok? My thinking is the grains are maybe a little big but I don’t know


Edit: I was batoning through wood and tweaked it to hard, that’s how it broke