My J.S. submission knives - a WIP

Stephan, I remember you couldn't get it all done last year and had to hold off until now. Maybe that's the way it was supposed to be.
Usually works like that.
I'm glad to see you're going to pull it off this year and you know we're all behind you.
Show us some completions from time to time!
 
All the best to you Stephan. You have some great looking knives in progress. Still, it occurs to me to wonder why they are all so big... where are the hand forged pen knives? ;)
 
Great looking knives. I am looking forward to seeing them finished. I am wanting to try this myself. I still have another year before I can, which dose not seem like enough time. good luck...steve
 
All ground to 80G now and ready for HT

I went ahead and roughly squared up the plunge cuts but I will go back and refine them after HT

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tryppyr said:
All the best to you Stephan. You have some great looking knives in progress. Still, it occurs to me to wonder why they are all so big... where are the hand forged pen knives? ;)
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if you mean pen knives as in folding knives, their slightly verboten at the JS test.
if you just mean small knives. I just like building big knives to much I guess...
 
Steve Randall said:
Great looking knives. I am looking forward to seeing them finished. I am wanting to try this myself. I still have another year before I can, which dose not seem like enough time. good luck...steve
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plan your time well, it will fly by, I promise.

I had really intending to start these last Aug. here I am in Jan thinking I REALLY need to get a move on.

the reason I chickened out last year from testing is that I hadn't had time to get all of my knives critiqued by MS. and the one's I had looked at had issues that needed fixing, which made me to worried that the ones that hadn't been looked at had issues.

In the end when I had the knives at Blade that I would have submitted I had them looked over and all but one would have been just fine. but that one would have killed me.

I am very pleased that I decided to wait, but I could have finished that one a little earlier, had it looked at, fixed the issue, and tested just fine.


this year I am determined not to make that mistake again. I will have this batch done in time to take to several MS and get input. I'm going to build them all such that I can break them down with out destroying the knife (bed the tang in epoxy, lightly superglue pins in place, take down nuts, etc) so that when an MS points out something I can fix it without starting over. Because they WILL find something to point out.
 
I would say best of luck to you, but I think you have the skills. :):thumbup:

Just don't put finishing them off too long and than have to rush to finish them.....;)

Looking good so far.


Todd



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stephanfowler said:
if you mean pen knives as in folding knives, their slightly verboten at the JS test.
if you just mean small knives. I just like building big knives to much I guess...
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I was just being silly, Stephan. Follow your passion. You're doing great things.

- Greg
 
working on the first one.

it's going to be a straight forward camp knife. blade is just a teensy bit over 10"

First I polish it on the belt grinder up to 600G

I start with a 36G Blaze belt, then an 80G Blaze, then a 400G Norax, then the 600G cork

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I like to fit the guard before I do any hand finishing, saves me from having to go back and fix scratches.

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Here I've finished hand polishing, you can kind of see the Hamon but I will etch it lightly to bring out some contrast.
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like this.
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Nice looking batch Stephan. I like the hamon on this one. Keep up the good work. Remember simple and clean clean clean.
 
This knife is going to be a single guard, Re-Curve camp knife, similar to my Springer Mountain profile.


I just love the way a good satin looks on a knife with Hamon, don't you


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This hasn't been etched in any way, just a 400G satin.
 
Working on the guard for the other big bowie.

I decided to be a little bit fancier with this one

I did a really rough scribe of the pattern so that I could lay out the ricasso and blade size and make sure it would all work
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after I got the guard blank fitting nicely on the tang I marked out the actual knife centerline (which is almost NEVER the bar centerline when you do these by hand) so I could align the template.

Here the pattern is glued down with super glue
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All shaped out, what do you think???
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Other side
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Looking good, man. Will you have them all done by Batson's? Plenty of master smiths there to show them to.
 
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