New knife, neat temper line

Joshua Fisher

Joshua Fisher

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So I’ve been working with pretty much only 1095 and the first batch of knives I sent out for heat treating (don’t have the equipment to ht) was all 3/16th thick and I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting some really cool temper lines/hamons when I etch them because of it being a shallow hardening steel. Here is a picture of one I just finished etching, I wanted to leave a rougher machine finish and see what it looked like so it’s a a45 trizact finish on the bevels and flats with some coarse scratches that I must have missed showing up after the etch on the flats, overall though I like the look since I was going for a more rough machine finish. Please let me know what you think, I’m open to criticism as I’d love to get better and better in this craft. The blade was reworked from the original design and there’s still a couple of things I would do differently next time.
https://imgur.com/a/cgerzN3
 
Nope, none of the blades had clay applied to them as far as I know. My guess is that most likely due to how thick I left them before heat treating combined with what ever oil was used to quench the blade resulted in a blade with a natural hamon, they all are definitely hard at the edge and are holding a edge great so I don’t doubt they quality of the heat treating that was done, it just surprised me the first few blades I tried etching to do a stone wash finish, definitely a nice surprise.
 
The more I look at the blade the less I like the stray scratches so I’m going to hand sand it all then re-etch, I will probably post some pictures after it’s cleaned up to get feedback on the difference
 
https://imgur.com/a/Ok0z4kO
Here is the knife re sanded, started off hand sanding at 180 until all the coarse scratches were gone then moved up to 320 then I used a cold blue and extra fine steel wool to patina the knife. Let me know what you think.
 
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