My fist knife

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Robert L Sr

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I am pretty sure I did not start off my knife making career perfectly but I made do with what I had.
I had an old rusty file and a lot of old red oak barn wood laying around.
I can see that I am going to have to come up with a better way to make a clean plunge line. Mine is kind of faded and I was not able to get all the file marks out if it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
All work was done by had as I have no grinder at the moment.
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Nice blade and awesome jig.
Handle seems long. What are the lengths?
Are the lines near the tip from the file you were using? Or from the file you made the blade from?
 
The handle is long so visually it is kind of off center but the handle fits my hand. The lines at the tip were from the filing. I guess there was some chattering. They are not on the finished knife. The handle is 4 1/4 and the blade is 3 1/8. I suppose I could reform the handle for aesthetics as there is plenty of wood back there.The jig is my version of Gough Custom's jig. I found for the narrow blade, the second set of holes helps the file clear the jig at the user end.
 
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I used the eyeball it a couple shades past magnetic and quench it in canola I also did two 1 hour tempering cycles at 400 degrees. Primitive, but until I can talk my wife into some kind of HT oven I will either stick with this or send them out.
 
Thanks. It was actually a lot of fun. I will have to build a forge though to do anything bigger. My twin propane torches just don't have the heat to get anything bigger a consistent heat.
I think for my next knife I will start with a piece of 1084 as it is more appropriate to the way I can currently heat treat.
 
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