Kitchen peppers - wip

oldanvilyoungsmith · Feb 12, 2012

Well, after a bit of a mix up, I'm restarting this thread. Sorry for the confusion folks.

Working on a batch of herb choppers. 3 of em, handforged 1084, I should have them ground and HT'd tomorrow, and handled by next week.

1 of them is mom's, and the other two are unclaimed as of yet.

Trying to decide on handle material. Thinking curly maple on two, and maybe purple heart on the last, what do ya'll think?

Bevels ground out

Bevels hand sanded to 120

Ready for HT (heading out to the shop to do that in a minute). Tangs ground down (the handles will extend farther than that, but I'll hand file and sand up to where I want them) and bevels sanded. The bottom one is mum's, as you can see, it's gettting some "special" treatment.

Didn't get as much done today as I intended, but I have a good excuse. I spent part of my available free time working on this! -

But, when I did get out to the shop, I got one the knives glued up. I'm going with brass bolsters and curly maple scales, believe it or not, this is the first time I've done bolsters on a full tang, so I'm going to shape out this handle some and see how I like it, then get the others glued depending on how this one looks.

I have been working on these, seriously. As of yesterday, I have the other two knives handled, and the handles roughed out. I don't have anything to do tomorrow after church, so I hope to get at least one sanded and dyed tomorrow.

Dawkind · Feb 12, 2012

Nice job on the knives and your WIP....

Bigfattyt · Feb 12, 2012

Looking great so far.

CM scales? What material is this?

oldanvilyoungsmith · Feb 13, 2012

Thanks Dawkind and Big, glad you like them.

Big - cm was short for curly maple, sorry, I forgot to change that.

oldanvilyoungsmith · Feb 13, 2012

Realized I forgot this -

Got the first one shaped, sanded, and stained, and I like how the bolsters look (as did the mother), so mums, and the other knife will get brass bolsters.

This first one has few more touches it needs on the handle, then a good sharpening. Should be done tonight, the others will be glued today, and finished soon.

oldanvilyoungsmith · Feb 14, 2012

Hey guys, I am going to finish these, seriously.

But I had to put them on hold for today (I was hoping to get at least one more finished today as I didn't have work) as I got a request from my brother for a rush job.

Heres a sneak peek -

They weren't really knives, so I'm not gonna start a thread about em, but you can see more about them here (I can't put em on my website or FB yet, cuz the recipient might see them to soon, so sometime friday or saturday they'll be put up there).

frc505 · Feb 15, 2012

Nice work ...

Im thinking arrowhead ? (last pic)

Frank

oldanvilyoungsmith · Feb 15, 2012

Okay, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel now! (figuratively and literally, it's nice and sunny here today, almost hit 70!).

I have the other two's handle finish sanded and stained, now I'll be oiling them for about a week before I declare them done and post them for sale. In the next few days I'll be working on sharpening, and taking finished photos, as the handle oiling won't change the look of the handle.

The lower one is the first one done last week, the two uppers are the ones done today.

Oh, and the claying on Mum's blade turned out to fail. I've only done it before on 1080, and didn't realize how different 1080 was from Aldos 1084 in that arena.

oldanvilyoungsmith · Feb 15, 2012

What's this? Doesn't look like a knife....

Ahhh.... That makes more sense.

Steve Nuckels · Feb 18, 2012

Nice work, I like them!

Steve
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oldanvilyoungsmith · Feb 23, 2012

I'm almost done, just gotta get some finished pictures and we're finito!

I got them all sharpened up two days ago, they're now sharp enough to shave the hair off a babys chin. And to cut see through slices of potato. I gave them all a test run, with potatoes, onions, and garlic. They slice and dice well.

Then I took them out to the shop and cleaned them up, some scratches on the front of the bolster (from sharpening I believe) touch up on the bevels, etc..

oldanvilyoungsmith · Feb 29, 2012

All done!

Mums in use

And some pretty pictures of the other two.

First - (and yes, the herbs were chopped with the pictured knife)

And second -

Then the accessories to be included with the knives when they're sold. A display block and a magnetic wall hanging block. Both made from curly maple to match the knives.