Laminated Bowie WIP - Photo Heavy!

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Fantastic stuff, Burt!!!!

Hope to see you at Blade for the brief time I'll be there... if things work out! :D
 
This IS a great thread Burt. Looks like it is shaping up precisely as sketched on the aged parchment.

The pictures of forging and normalizing are superb.

Thanks,
Peter
 
Burt Foster said:
Keith, I use 416 for a couple of reasons... I've used 303, 304, 316, 410 and 416, and in many ways, they all work fine. The main advantage of 416 over most of the others is it's ease of grinding, drilling, etc. Asthetically, both 410 and 416 will "eat" carbon from the outer edges of the core and it creates those cool carbon migration patterns that look like layers of silver and gray.
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Thanks, Burt. That's the kind of information that gives me a better understanding of why things are done the way they are.
 
Is that the professional glue or the civilian kind?
I relly don't want my laminates to come apart.
Thanks
Mace
 
sweet thread. I'm going to skip the superglue, and go straight for the 2 ton epoxy (not trying to one up you, but pretty sure the epoxy laminate is going to revolutionize the laminate knife game).

Keep the pictures coming.
 
OK, post "battle", here are a few new images...


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The damascus for the fittings is the same mix I use for knife blades, just to keep me from getting confused: O-1 and 15N20.


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Billet goes into the forge...


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Heating up...


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Nearly there...


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And when it's up to temp, I do the first weld with the flat dies...


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Then switch to the flat drawing dies to draw it out.
 
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Then there's the drawing and the folding yada-yada-yada. You all know the drill, but on the other hand, some of the pictures are cool, so here are a few more.


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I'm re-squaring the billet...


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And after folding it, I draw it out on the power hammer...


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I saw off a smaller piece, weld it to a bar, and forge it to the general shape of the guard, and another one to make the take-down nut.


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And here are the two forged pieces for the fittings.
 
Hey, Burt, this is gonna be another beauty. And by the way, you should show the folks that "Primitive" Bolo-type you e-mailed the pic of. That's yet another Foster triumph.

John
 
bolo, eh? Do tell...:D
 
hi burt!sorry, did you see my first post?

femercier said:
excellent work and tutorial burt! congrats!
let me ask you, do you use something else in between the 3 layers to facilitate the welding? in an other thread of a knife you made, someone said you put nickel or something like that in between. maybe 15n20?
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=460285#post4436248
an also, would it be the same if instead of using 416 i use 420???
thank you very much, and keep it coming!!
fernando
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Fernando,

Sorry missed that. Originally, I used a very thin layer of nickel between the stainless and carbon steels, and I will still do that from time to time. It creates a different look, but it is not necessary in getting the steels to weld. This blade has no nickel.

I've never used 420, so I can't say for sure, but I have no reason to think that it wouldn't work.
 
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