islamic dagger-cold forge

M

mesar

Joined
Apr 26, 2006
Messages
11
I made this knife other day nothing jawdropping :) but sort of pleased how it came out

picture25ska.jpg

picture26a.jpg

picture23f.jpg




another just tip of blade so far actualy thats the tip im considering making and battle hammer first forged then brushed-grinded

picture30n.jpg

picture29h.jpg
 
Last edited:
I can't really see the knife but congrats anyway. Is this your first knife?

-frank
 
by cold forge i mean i didnt help myself with fernice or any sort of fire but just used hammer and blackmisth anvil


its made of carbon steel
 
Cold forging will work harden the steel, but will create great stresses and possible failures. A thorough stress relief should be done. As a rule avoid forging carbon steel below 1600F.
Stacy
 
bladsmth said:
Cold forging will work harden the steel, but will create great stresses and possible failures. A thorough stress relief should be done. As a rule avoid forging carbon steel below 1600F.
Stacy
Click to expand...

Talk about stress, i tryed to draw out some small cold titanium rod with my forging press. and well it squished it down a bit then stopped then it seamed like an explosion as the bar sheared off at the drawing point. the press jumped off the ground about 2" and the titanium was never to be seen again. never doing that agian. yes cold forging puts tons of stress on a blade and does not produce good results at all. hot forge and heat treat is the way to go.
 
Thx for advice, i usualy forge things out of scrap metal before i use it i try it out if its any hard enough with hammer by hitting it on line if dent is too big means its tooo soft....

However im aware to produce something quality u need quality material for it also therefore i would like to ask for any sugestion which material to buy what steel you guys usualy do knifes out of

I have an blacksmith fernice form my grandgrandfather but have to change electric motor old one gave its life. So weh il get new one i intend to use it

Handle has been carved out of wood and painted in black
 
fill out your profile so we will know where you are (we might be able to point you to good local sources, and read the "good info here" stickies

-Page
 
Filled my profile thx for noting me

"non the less im from europe/slovenia city maribor"
 
I'm probably not the best person to be giving advise on the subject, but it looks like they have a decent selection. I only skimmed through the lists though, I didn't check the alloy breakdowns. It really depends on what your heat treating capabilities are. If you don't have access to a controlled furnace, you may want to look at the AISI 1075 they have listed. A lot of us starting out use 1080 series, but I didn't see any. It looks like they have O1, W2, L6 and a number of other steels, but the heat treating process needs to be more precisely controlled than what you can do in the forge. Look around some of the other pages there... the only steel I saw on the page you linked that was common in knives was 440c, but it's usually not forged, and it does require a precise heat treatment to harden properly.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top