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Here's my latest which I'm quite proud of because it's one of the few I've forged that ended up with no cracks at all. I have a habit of forging too cold to cut down on scale growth.
Anyway, this is a design I've been thinking about for some time. Sorry for the fuzzy pic, my camera's cheap and old. It's obviously (at least I hope) scalpel-based. The deep belly is for skinning or draw cuts of any kind really. I even think it would be good for very close quarters self defence where a larger knife would be hard to bring into play. Forged from 1/2" round O1. 6" overall, blade is around 2" depending on how you measure it. Handle is 1/4" thick and about 3/8" wide. I filed four grooves all the way around the handle for grip and decoration. Cleaned 'em up with the Dremel. The finish is 320 grit, I used a wire wheel to bring out the shine which incedentally also brought out the hamon. There are a couple of stubborn light scratches that I couldn't remove but rather than grind it any thinner I decided to leave them. Probably no one but me would find them anyway.
All in all I'm very happy with my progress both as a forger and a maker in general. I probably only put 16 - 18 hours of work into it over five days and that was mostly because I used dull belts because I'm a cheapskate. My first knife took me three months of fiddling.
Now I just need to make a sheath with one of those rare earth magnets I spent an hour digging out of harddrives. What kind of sheath do you guys think I should make? Neck, boot, belt? I'm torn. Ideally, I'd like it to be concealable and easily accessed.
I'm gonna hate to part with this one but I plan on selling it when the sheath is done. Everything went right with this one. That's a good feeling isn't it?
Anyway, this is a design I've been thinking about for some time. Sorry for the fuzzy pic, my camera's cheap and old. It's obviously (at least I hope) scalpel-based. The deep belly is for skinning or draw cuts of any kind really. I even think it would be good for very close quarters self defence where a larger knife would be hard to bring into play. Forged from 1/2" round O1. 6" overall, blade is around 2" depending on how you measure it. Handle is 1/4" thick and about 3/8" wide. I filed four grooves all the way around the handle for grip and decoration. Cleaned 'em up with the Dremel. The finish is 320 grit, I used a wire wheel to bring out the shine which incedentally also brought out the hamon. There are a couple of stubborn light scratches that I couldn't remove but rather than grind it any thinner I decided to leave them. Probably no one but me would find them anyway.
All in all I'm very happy with my progress both as a forger and a maker in general. I probably only put 16 - 18 hours of work into it over five days and that was mostly because I used dull belts because I'm a cheapskate. My first knife took me three months of fiddling.
Now I just need to make a sheath with one of those rare earth magnets I spent an hour digging out of harddrives. What kind of sheath do you guys think I should make? Neck, boot, belt? I'm torn. Ideally, I'd like it to be concealable and easily accessed.
I'm gonna hate to part with this one but I plan on selling it when the sheath is done. Everything went right with this one. That's a good feeling isn't it?
