Knife # 17 - different for me -

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rlinger

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I never would have on my own thought of this. Had I found a spike buck shead in the woods I would have done nothing more than look at it and toss it back to the ground. However, a father of a youngster asked me to make this for his 10 year old for Christmas. He told me he and his kid were in the woods during gun season and the boy found this shead. I felt myself challenged by the 1/2 inch diameter spike but having now made one I think I might like one of these for myself and will be looking for spike sheads in the future.

Little Spike Hunter: http://riflestocks.tripod.com/pics14.html

Thanks for looking at this cute little thing.

EDIT: the goldish color of the blade is a combination of lighting and my inability to take good pictures. The actual color of the blade is black and nickel.

RL
 
What a kick Roger!!! That is really fun. I love it.

Steve
 
Cute ? actually just the right size for small game. I'm sure he'll have years of pleasure from that knife.
 
Thanks all. It was the small diameter coupled with a curve at the crown area that was scary to me about hitting the drill right without cutting too close to a side and also the crown went off to one side so centering at the face was a difficulty.

Because I noticed my teacher commented: Mete, I oil quenched in 138 F. oil (not wrapped). I hit the quench real fast and do not believe I past one second but doubt it was much less than that if at all. At oil temperature I placed in pre-heated 350 F. snap temper for one hour. I had equalized 5 minutes at 1200 F. and austenitized 5 minutes at 1475 F.. After snap temper I put in cryo and then tempered 1 hour at 400 F. followed by a final 1 hour temper at 375 F.. I wish now I had tempered at about 450 - 475 F.. I can not Rockwell this nickel laiden steel with my equipment but from how it sharpened and from other heat treatings I suspect it is about 60 HRc (a guess based on limited experience). For a young kid I should have targeted about 58 mainly because of the way I so narrowly shot up to the tip of blade. I can just see him stabbing it into a piece of wood and twisting and bending it. I used to.

Mattd, the goldish color of the blade is a combination of lighting and my inability to take good pictures. The actual color of the blade is black and nickel. You can prove this by looking at the nickel silver guard, which appears goldish in the photo; not likely with N/S. I thought I should clear this since some might think I did not grind off the oxidation after tempering. That would not be correct.

RL
 
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