My first pattern-welded fixed blade!

Phillip Patton

Phillip Patton

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Howdy, just posted this in the custom forum, thought I'd share it here, too.

I've been trying for over a year, and finally made a billet with no bad welds. :eek: I'm working on a couple more knives from the same billet, but this is the first one to get finished.
Steels are 1080, 1095, and 8670. Handle is black paper micarta, buffed to a nice shine.
I didn't do any pattern manipulation on this one, but because I used the drawing dies on my power hammer to do the welding and drawing out, it has kind of a ladder pattern. :)

Thanks for looking!
Phillip


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Wow! awesome, that's unreal. After seeing that probably will be ordering another knife from you next year :)
 
Thanks guys!
Let me say again, this is not my first billet, just my first successful billet.
I've wasted a fair amount of steel trying. :D
 
I was so stunned by the look of the knife, I just noticed you put a recurve on the blade, really like that :)
 
It's a pretty one, Phillip. Very nice steel. Congrats on your success!:thumbup:

I might suggest you keep it. Some idiots trade one their first two damascus knives from their first billet on things like guns. Long after the gun is gone, the bitter recrimination of not having the knife remains... :( :o
 
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