Here are my first 2 knives

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dperk

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I know these are flawed, but I wanted to finish them anyway. Sorry about the bad lighting.

The smaller bottom one is my first. The other is my 2nd.

They are both 1095 and I had Peters heat treat them. Stainless pins on the bottom, brass fittings on the top one. Blades are 3"


Comments and suggestions are welcome.

I know the one has a pin blow-out and the top has a grind that went to high on the one side.

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Thanks!
-darren
 
I really like the top one.

With that grind on the top one there are couple of ways you could have recovered. The easiest is grind the other side to match ;)

You did well
 
What kind of wood did you use for the scales? Both are good looking knives for your first. I especially like the wood on the top one...and it looks like you finished them very well. Do tell us how you finished them also!
 
I think for your first two, they are fantastic. The handle finishes are quite nice. Grinds don't look bad. Agree with the matching them up, but if you overgrind a plunge, you can always surface that entire side(vertical on the platen) and that can bring it back. Great looking knives.
 
Mike Davis said:
but if you overgrind a plunge, you can always surface that entire side(vertical on the platen) and that can bring it back.
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all my 1/8" knives were 5/32 to start with :D

good job on the knives, looks like you used some lacquer for finish, I especially like the bottom knife....
 
Thanks guys! I think the top one was a wood called phet or something like that? The bottom is Shedua. They are both finished with tru-oil after sanding up to 600 or so. The top one is 5/32 and the bottom is 1/8. The pictures don't show it but I put a Fine (blue) 3m scotchbrite on the top and the bottom one is nearly polished. I have since touched it up on the buffer with some green chrome.
 
very nice! I should have kept a couple of my firsts, they were just files ground out on a hard wheel grinder, with leather wrapped handles and gallon milk jug sheaths. Those are the first that would cut anyhow, ugly, but they cut good for something from a 10 year old.
 
Very nice,and especially for your first two! The full height grinds look great.
 
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Thanks for the comments everyone!

I did not make sheaths yet, but I'm reading up on how to do that. I also bought a ceramic platen and my recent grinds are already better and more flat. I still have to work on left hand matching right, but it's getting there.
 
I really like the chatoyance of the wood on the top picture. The one on the bottom convinces me that I don't want my wood grain running the same direction as the blade itself. I realize different people have different opinions, I'm just partial to things that look less... traditional.
 
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