New Twins-Knives #2 & 3 WIP

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So they are not identical at all, fold counts are completely different but they were born at the same time (within 10-15 minutes of each other anyway). They are both 1095 and 01.

Small skinner has 468 layers, big one has 1584 layers. I have some Afzelia coming for the handles and the finger guards on both will be be pieces cut from the original blanks so the layer counts will match.

Everything I have read said that if you break 1000 layers you will not see a pattern, the 1584 layer one has a pattern I can see when the light hits just right though the grind marks, it is very fine but it is there.

They are both very rough still, just annealed them yesterday and only got a few hours of sanding in on them today. Back sides are still covered in forge scale for the most part. Still cannot take a good pic but here they are.
Tell me what you think.

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Can kind of see the pattern in this one.
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Wood showed up last night. I am happy with it, very dense pieces and I did not pay a lot of them. 2"X2"X11"
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Very nice! Looks like you've got a lot of work ahead of you. Did you forge yourself, or have someone else do the forging?
 
I like th looks of the big one, reminds me of a butcher knife. I've always liked the butcher knife profile. I plan on gettin to making one someday.
 
Number 2 moving along, still forever to go but getting there.
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The finger guard is a 2 piece one held together and on the blade a very simple way. Took 2 of these and cut out the straight part.
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Drilled 2 holes in each one and through the tang, heat them up, slide them on and let the process of heat shrinking do its thing. Worked like a charm. Did not have to get the 2 pieces real hot as they are small holes and I do not think the pins suffered any strength loss as they are really on there.
 
I decided I did not like the finger guards so I took them back off, also decided to use only 1 piece of wood cut in half for the handle. Got to looking at it and to have matched those guards would have been a huge handle and a waste of wood. Patched the holes with a quick plug weld, holes where so small it only took a quick trigger squeeze to do it. Put it back in the forge and did a heat treat to even it all back out. I know even if its is just a small blast of heat from the welder that it would make those spots harder and more brittle than the rest so back in the forge it had to go. Going to keep this one simple. Got the basic handle shape, just need to finish sanding the blade, harden the cutting edge, sand again, give it an acid bath and then I will be ready to attach the handles. Then I will have to shape the handles the rest of the way so it matched the blade contour.
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