Integral of D2 & Stag

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Hmathews

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I think that this is what happens when you sit a table away from someone like Mr. Ted Dowell at the Knifemakers Guild Show. The knife is made of D2 steel, sambar, black iners, with stainless bolts. The blade is flat ground with a Moran type edge. This knife was months in the planning and resulted in about 1.25 pounds of dust and chips on the floor. Charlie weighed it before and after just to see.

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From this angle you can see the tapered tang.

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I love integrals, and this one is very nicely done. Integral guards and rear bolster makes the knife much more difficult to make.
 
I am also a fan of integrals. That looks like a nice one, and I also like D2 steel very much.

Well done.

Peter
 
This is cool and simple, yet difficult to make. I specially like the way the black spacer was used between the steel and the scales.
 
I LOVE integrals. This is a fine example. Nice job!!!!!

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Brett
 
by the way, a nessmuk knife in such style of forging and mounting would also look great.
 
I really appreciate the comments. It makes me feel good to hear that someone understands the difficulty of the process. Charlie made this knife with a quality drill press and a good grinder to nock the dust off. No automated processes, CNC, water jet or any of that new high tech stuff. It is off to get some professional photos taken. Thanks again for the interest.
 
No, it's not forged. I think that this would be an interesting knife for someone with a little more experience with a hammer than I have to try some weekend. They might want to try out some steel other than D2.
 
They might want to try out some steel other than D2.
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Oh, yeah... missed that. You know, it is not that difficult if you have some basic tools and some hammer experience to get it done on a forge. The trick is to get it ground properly afterwards, and in that you already did a great job. I get the impression that even the tang as a nice taper to it.

Forged or not, quite an achievement.
 
Yep, the tang is tapered. The more I think about the considerations necessary to forge one of these suckers, the more I like the idea of grinding it out. Charlie did this one, I've been dreading the one I have started, and from the noise coming from the grinding room, I don't think grinding it will be much fun either. There are just so many areas you can screw up, even if you are careful.
 
Very cool, sir. I would think that forging one of those would probably be easier relatively spaeking if you used a press with some specialized dies.:thumbup:
 
You could more than likely get a large enough press and the correct dies to do this in one operation, but what would you have? We try to do as much work as we can by hand. All of our equipment is C&H (Charlie and Harry) controled.:D We don't have a press and the only power hammer we have is Charlie with his 8 pound sledge hammer. The only thing we outsource is some of our heat treating which is done by Paul Bos, and we are doing less and less of that. It keeps things simpler and lets us feel better about calling our knives handmade.
 
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