My new "rustic" cricket

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Cosmo7809

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Well I was board.... Pretty much sums it all up

Took a blowtorch and about an hour.

When I reassmbled it I noticed I forgot to do the clip and screw heads.

Well I did the clip but not the screws and I think it looks better that way, more of an contrast.










Pictures do not do this justice.
 
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I can't tell if you did the same thing to the blade. That may compromise the heat treat, making the blade more brittle and weak. Also don't know if that would compromise the lock either. Looks kinda cool though.
 
*Edited - Inappropriate and uncalled for.
 
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sufu. That is completely uncalled for. I would delete that before infractions are handed out.

Edited to say: See, I told ya.
 
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Guys, please note this was a beat up cricket that was sitting in the back of my drawer.

I took the knife apart and did everything individually. As far as the "compromising of metal" I have no idea about any thing like that. I do understand that I might have done some internal damage to the metal but as said above was a beater and had nothing to loose. I went right over the serrated edge and it held perfectly. Lock works just as brand new, but cannot tell in the future.


It went back together as if I did nothing do it. All the screws threaded perfectly with no damage what so ever.


Thanks for the comments.

As far as the comment above, I did not see it nor am I really interested to... If you have nothing nice to say.... dont say it.
This was just for fun and a slight experimental purpose. nothing more, nothing less.
 
Ack! Yep, you probably killed the heat treatment. The steel will likely be very soft now.

For a demonstration of this, try bending a paperclip. Now, heat it red hot with your torch and wait for it to cool. Now try to bend it again. A lot easier, right?

Oh, well. Live and learn. And if you're happy with your knife, that's all that matters, right?
 
re-heat it and quench it in ice-cream. even if the heat-treat doesn't work, you can have a delicous snack when you're done.
 
Heat treating steels is not this easy monkeyface. If it was everybody would be doing it. Heating it with a torch then rapidly cooling it probably won't do anything except maybe make it worse.

Some steels need to air cool. Some need quenchant oils, etc. The temps you need to achieve are probably not there unless you make a mini oven with bricks etc.

What I'm saying is try reading what you need to do for that particular steel in your knife. Then ask yourself it it's realistic.

Likely as not. Good luck though.
 
Yeah, I figured, and have read up on it a little. I dont plan on trying it, i just thought that ice cream sounded wrong, but also like it could work.
 
Supmonkeyface said:
Yeah, I figured, and have read up on it a little. I dont plan on trying it, i just thought that ice cream sounded wrong, but also like it could work.
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the only time ice cream is wrong is if you're lactose intolerant. :D
 
I clicked on the third picture and was redirected to your picture shack. Under the picture wer several optional pictures to view. I can not on this forum mention what I saw as the middle photo. At first I thought it was an ear until I enlarged it.
 
heat treat may have been altered. even so, its possible you will never know the difference.

if you didn't heat it until it glowed, its also possible you affected nothing.
 
MORIMOTOM said:
if you didn't heat it until it glowed, its also possible you affected nothing.
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I thought that you'd start getting problems around 400 F and definite softening around 600, well before you get color changes.
 
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