New field knife

peter nap

peter nap

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I built a new field knife for this upcoming hunting season. It's made from industrial Hacksaw (Bi-Metal) Super chubby design and Rosewood grips (That I'm allergic to and am paying for now)

The color is rust brown. I was doing dome muzzleloader parts and decided to rust this too. I kinda like it. It used Apple Cider Vinegar as a starter and a humidity box.

The finish on the Rosewood is beeswax. The former gunsmith at Williamsburg told me about it and I love it. Very tough and has a low luster. You just heat the wood until wax will puddle on it, let it soak in and do it again. When it won't take anymore, buff it.

The picture isn't very good and the stuff around the screws isn't dirt, it's just some wax I haven't buffed out yet.

BTW, the knife is holding a very good edge so that should answer a question on a previous thread about these hacksaw blades.
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Hey Peter, IG, I have been using Starrett industrial hacksaw blades for years, for using blades. What process are you using, Peter, to get the blade soft enough to grind or are you just forging it to shape and reHTing the blade???

Ken Beatty
 
I had been using them in damascus but I have made a couple of knives just with the blades a long time ago. On this one, I started to grind without doing anything and just about finished. I got in a hurry and stayed on the high speed steel hog instead of going to the finish grinder...and got the blue spot of death.

I normalized, triple heated and quenched and baked at 325F. Worked fine....
Now here's the odd thing about these blades. I noticed this after normalizing and drilling the grip holes. I AIR HARDENS very well. Too well.
If I get time soon I may ty some using an air quench. I think I'll wait a week or so though. My wife is having fits that I'm grinding again and is threatening to tell my daughter....who in turn will tell the doctor whom I told would not see me again until it was time to put on a toe tag! (I still say he is a quack and E. Ivory dust is good for you...kinda like Grizzley gall bladders):D
 
Great looking knife.
About 28 years ago when I was an apprentice. One of the trades men made a knife out of hack saw. It held up very well to all application.
I manage to have it drop into a box under the bench then I threw it into the industrial bin. I think you guys may call them bumpsters.
We back tracked the last place seen and I spent a fair amount of time
cleaning out the dumpster until I found it.

Just a bit of trivia I suppose but it is to illustrate a hack saw knife can be a prized posession even if not as nice as yours.
 
First started using this steel, working at paper plant, in the 60s. That steel will cut paper till the sun goes down and the moon comes up. The nice thing about it is you can grind and polish it and does not need to be HTed. Makes most excellent skinners.

Ken Beatty
 
That is very nicely done Peter. I looked the chubby pattern up after you mentioned it in another thread and like it. Great seeing it brought to life in such a fine looking knife, thanks.
Regards,
Greg
 
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