My first knife!

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metal99

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Hello everyone. I just thought I would post my first knife. I forged the blade out of a torsion bar from a chevy truck tail gate. The handle is rosewood laminated in between two ebony scales. The finger guard is made from 1/8" brass flat stock and the rear bolster is made from 1" round brass stock. I welded a bolt to the tang and tapped the rear bolster to thread on. For spacers I used deer antler from on of my dads bucks. I finished the handle in minwax tung oil finish and hand polished everything after sanding down to 3000 grit sand paper.

Let me know what you guys think and thanks for looking.

***How do I put pictures on here?***

Ok sorry for all the picture problems and thank you everyone for the help. Here they are let me know what you guys think!

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upload pics to photobucket. copy the IMG link and paste directly into your posts
 
I'd recommend tinypic. Photobucket deletes pictures after a very short time period. Which means that when people find this thread a year from now, all the pictures will be gone, replaced with the ubiquitous and omnipresent "removed by photobucket" image which we all hate to see when we are looking for knife pics!
 
Magnaminous_G said:
I'd recommend tinypic. Photobucket deletes pictures after a very short time period. Which means that when people find this thread a year from now, all the pictures will be gone, replaced with the ubiquitous and omnipresent "removed by photobucket" image which we all hate to see when we are looking for knife pics!
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Bugger I just got them all on photobucket . . . I think I might start a tinypic account as well and just transfer the images later. For now I will just post the photo bucket pictures. They well be up in a few mins :)
 
it's really great to see all these folks posting up pics of their first foray into making knives!
Nice work:thumbup:
 
Thanks everybody! Its time to put it to the test and see how well it holds an edge. I played with the heat treating and tempering till I got it figured out (I think) Then I decided to give it a shot on the blade. Its fairly hard but sharpenable with ceramic. It doesnt sharpen up very fast on my old wet stone but the ceramic and diamond works good.
 
I did some more work to the knife today and I think the blade is a tad on the soft side. It sharpens up really well and holds it when widdling wood so thats a plus. I also decided that because its an older looking knife I would etch the blade a bit with some vinigar. I tried to do it as evenly as I could to prevent it from looking like "pattern" welded steel. It just has a nice antique look to it now thats all.
 
Did some edge tests on the blade and it seems to hold up fairly well. I chopped up a paper sugar bag till it was in a pile of tiny pieces. I couldnt shave with it after that but a quick strop brought it right back to life. I ordered some 1095, o1 and 5160. I dont want to work with mistery metal anymore.
 
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