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hello folks,
In the past few months, my girlfriend has become interested in knifemaking, in particular the forging (I nearly fell off my chair when she told me that she had been using my BF id to do searches here). Anyway, I showed her the how's and not-do-this's, and lended her my show, including handle materials. She doesn't likes electrical devices (says they make too much noise
), so the only thing she used electrically driven was my drill mounted with a 5 inh polishing wheel. All the rest is filed, handsanded and sawed by hand.
This is what she came up with:
It's forged ferrari-coilspring (I assume they use good stuff :d), differentially HT'ed (trippel quench). handle is brass, reindeer, brass, zebrano with a superglue finish, brass and sambar stag.
Handle is fixed with an invisible pin inside the sambar, so that even should all the glue vaporise, the upper rings couldn't fall off, just the sambar would be loose.
Lemme know what you think, It's her favourite & first, and she'll read this too maybe
greetz & thanks in advance.
In the past few months, my girlfriend has become interested in knifemaking, in particular the forging (I nearly fell off my chair when she told me that she had been using my BF id to do searches here). Anyway, I showed her the how's and not-do-this's, and lended her my show, including handle materials. She doesn't likes electrical devices (says they make too much noise
), so the only thing she used electrically driven was my drill mounted with a 5 inh polishing wheel. All the rest is filed, handsanded and sawed by hand.This is what she came up with:
It's forged ferrari-coilspring (I assume they use good stuff :d), differentially HT'ed (trippel quench). handle is brass, reindeer, brass, zebrano with a superglue finish, brass and sambar stag.
Handle is fixed with an invisible pin inside the sambar, so that even should all the glue vaporise, the upper rings couldn't fall off, just the sambar would be loose.
Lemme know what you think, It's her favourite & first, and she'll read this too maybe
greetz & thanks in advance.
(I can't believe I just said that! 
