Making my first damascus fixed blade

[Charlie Mike]

This will be chisel/convex ground.

 

[CWL]

Nice gridwork!

BTW, did you save the scraps for use as guards, bolsters or small knives?

 

[Charlie Mike]

Nope, not much left.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Subscribed to this one, this is one WIP I wanna watch, I like yer lines Matt looks like it'll balanced to the front a little bit, I like the bigger ones a little heavier up front. I can see where this'll be a great slasher, I wanna see some bottle cuts and some bamboo chops, maybe a little Lynn Thompson field testin'...

 

[Charlie Mike]

This is ready to go to HT.

 

[Charlie Mike]

Etching with hydrochloric acid.

 

[SPXTrader]

Looking good CM! :thumbup: Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

[Charlie Mike]

After 12 hours.

 

[Spyder328]

Thats one beautiful blade!

 

[wolf5391]

12 hours seems awful long for not a very deep etch.

are you diluting the hydrochloric acid?

 

[Charlie Mike]

Yup, cut 2/3 water.

 

[Charlie Mike]

One last thing to do now... List it for sale