Journeyman Smith Performance Test Knife

Kyle Royer

Kyle Royer

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This is a picture of the knife I’m going to use for my Journeyman Smith Performance Test. I will be taking it with Jimmy Walker as my administrator.:thumbup:

I will be testing May 2nd.:)

Click on the link to go to the Journeyman Smith Test Rules and regulations page, if your not familiar with it.
http://www.americanbladesmith.com/ABS_JSTest.htm


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Here are two pictures of the Journeyman Smith Performance Test knife that I tested at home. It passed with flying colors! So now all I have to do is pass it officially with the above knife.


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Tell me what you think.

Thanks for looking,

Kyle
 
Looks good! That New York chrome handle is HOT!
Good luck with your test.
Mace
 
Good luck, your stuff is looking good and I am impressed. Keep it up. I am sure you will have no problem meeting your goals.
 
Looking good. Have you done any testing on your actual test knife? I made sure mine passed the rope and 2x4 cuts before doing the actual test. Took a lot of pressure off me knowing it would pass the first 2 parts. Are you presenting at Blade this year??
 
Yes I did the rope and the 2x4 chop and shaving hair part of the test, and it did all those things well.
 
Good work and good luck with your Journeyman test......doesn't look like you'll need it. ;)
 
Put Duct tape Down on my List of new favorite handle Materials!
Seriously they look badass
tell us about the heat treat
 
While I generally don't favor wrapped handles, I vastly prefer that to duct tape.





Just yankin' your chain! :p:)

Best of luck to you on the test - that's a fine looking blade.

Roger
 
The way I heat treated it is, first I forged the blade out of 1/4" x 1 1/4" 5160, starting with the highest heat than I started going with lower and lower heats until forged, after forging I normalized it three times and then I put it in my heat treating oven and set the temperature at 1500 degrees fahrenheit, and set it so the temperature would go down about 400 degrees an hour, this makes the steel about as soft as you can get it, or you can say I Annealed it. After annealing I ground the blade then I heated the edge of the blade about one third the way up the blade, with a torch, then I quenched it in transmission oil that I heated to about 120 degrees. Then I tempered the blade in my heat treating oven at 425 degrees fahrenheit for two hours. After tempering I put the edge of the blade in a troft filled with water, to keep the edge cool while I heated the rest of the blade to a gray color, then I let it cool and after that I ground the edge bevels. After the edge bevels were ground I repeated the process of heating the spine of the blade to soften it again. Then I did the rope rap on the handle and I sharpened the blade, and that's it.

Thanks for asking,

Kyle
 
We'll be pulling for you, Kyle. You seem to have things totally under control. Best of luck on May 2nd.
Thanks for sharing.

- Joe
 
Kyle, it is looking good. I wish you success and look forward to shaking your hand in congratulations at the hammer in.
Brion
 
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