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This one fought me every step of the way. During the first heat treatment, the tip warped. After that, my heat treating oven burned out a coil. Once that was fixed, I stress relieved and corrected the tip, normalized, and during the second heat treatment, the oven broke again. Luckily the blade had been soaking for 40 minutes or so at temp, so as soon as I saw the temp dropping, I pulled it out and quenched it. Then I muffed the ricasso during finishing and had to work to correct that. But it finally came together and turned out pretty well, I think.
This is CPM154 5/32" thickness. Quench was with aluminum plates. Black linen micarta handles and vulcanized spacers. It was delivered with a custom kydex sheath with steel spring clip. The customer's husband, for whom this was her Christmas gift, is a Canuck, and she wanted some hints of that in the knife. For that reason, I layered the spacers red/white/red, and was able to etch the maple leaf above his last name on the right side of the blade. Sorry for the crummy pics, I took this on Christmas Eve morning right before I had to deliver it to her. My maker's mark looks light in the first pic, but it's just the angle.
Thanks for looking! As always, any comments or suggestions are welcome!
--nathan
This is CPM154 5/32" thickness. Quench was with aluminum plates. Black linen micarta handles and vulcanized spacers. It was delivered with a custom kydex sheath with steel spring clip. The customer's husband, for whom this was her Christmas gift, is a Canuck, and she wanted some hints of that in the knife. For that reason, I layered the spacers red/white/red, and was able to etch the maple leaf above his last name on the right side of the blade. Sorry for the crummy pics, I took this on Christmas Eve morning right before I had to deliver it to her. My maker's mark looks light in the first pic, but it's just the angle.
Thanks for looking! As always, any comments or suggestions are welcome!
--nathan
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