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atakach

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i was thinking that if a man is gonna sell knives to people who have know idea who he is, they outta be sure that man has an idea what exactly it is he is doing with his steel. by no means am i an expert , i learn new things from you guys all the time (much appreciated). but i tested a blade today and here's the results,

by the way blade was forged from 5160 round stock that was reduced to bar stock w/power hammer then forged to shape. it is about 11.5'' o.a. and blade is about 7''. i triple hardened the edge then hand sanded to 400, then etched to reveal temper line. probably gonna have lace wood scales.

i started by chopping through a pine 1x4, then made a few shavings from it, then took a piece of oak hard wood flooring and split it length ways into 4 or 5 pieces, then cut up a few pieces of extension cord, finally shredded up some paper. in the end it was still shaving sharp.

the edge is hardened from tip all the way to choil, but when i sharpened and buffed off the edge i buffed some of the etch off near choil so it appears the temper line doesn't extend all the way to choil but it does.
thanks for looking and helpful criticism it a appreciated.
 

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That's good stuff there man! That blade shape is my current favorite. One of these days I'm going to have to bite the bullet and beat the crap out of one of my knives and see if they are actually users as intended or just underdressed wall-hangers. Any idea how 5160 compares with 01 as far as edge retention?

Regards,

Dave
 
Question-
How did you cut the extension cord? Did you form it into a loop in one hand, and pull the knife through the loop to slice it? Or did you lay the cord on a board or something, and press the knife through?

When you say it was still "shaving sharp", do you mean it would freely pop hairs off your arm exactly as when you started, or do you mean the edge had degraded ever so slightly, but still had no problem scraping hairs off the arm?
 
Beating the crap out of a knife is very rewarding when you made it yourself. Now start chopping up some tin cans, then drop it tip first onto a concrete floor from 4'...
 
I've got the knife for it and you've tipped me over the edge. I'm going to make a better duplicate and choppify some stuff with the older one tomorrow! Have a great weekend guys. Again, nice knife Takach.

Dave
 
when i cut the cord, i pressed it through it, maybe three or four times, then after i had taken the pics i just wanted to see how much i could push the limits and i layed the cord on top of an old table and just chopped it like i was chopping onions about 20 times still shaved , maybe the edge had some deterioration, but it still cleanly shaved hair no prob
 
i like the sound of that concrete test gimm'e a sec. and ill let you know how bad the damage is
 
lost about a 1/32 - 1/16 of the tip and that aint to bad dropped from my shoulder down onto the concrete porch.
 
That's why we make them ourselves instead of buying them from China mart and Wally world for $19.95.
 
Is triple quenching that much better to do. I have done a second quenching
but I could not really tell the difference from the first to the second quench.
I dropped one of my knives from 4" and it did just like what you said your knife
did just a little tip damage.

Bryan
 
sicily02 said:
Is triple quenching that much better to do. I have done a second quenching
but I could not really tell the difference from the first to the second quench.
I dropped one of my knives from 4" and it did just like what you said your knife
did just a little tip damage.

Bryan
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maybe the triple quench isn't all that necessary then, i don't usually do it, but on this one, it worked for me.
 
Nice post, sounds like your knife performed very well! I do a triple quinch
on my 52100 and have done it on 5160, but havent done enough testing to see if it really improves the quality of the edge.
Again nice post!:)
 
A search on these forums will reveal a wealth of information regarding triple quenching.

I find that the 'search' feature included on the forum is positively worthless, so now I just use google. Just type the keywords you are looking for into google, but immediately following, type in "site:bladeforums.com", for example:

triple quench site:bladeforums.com

That way it limits its search to what's available on BF!

Good luck!
 
thanks for all the comments gonna go camping for the weekend, and test'er out.

andrew
 
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I have done the concrete drop in my demonstrations for a few years now at Ashokan, with good homogenious conditions there is no tip damage at all. I first started that test shortly after I switched to salt baths with a batch of forge treated and salt bath blades, the only tip damage I got was in a couple of the forge treated blades. This is not to single out the salt bath technique, since every blade I have dropped on the concrete at Ashokan from 6' was done in a forge, quenched just once (honest;))in Parks #50 and had no temper whatsoever, I am sure there are some folks present here that gasped in the crowd there when I first did it. One year we bounced a 1095 bowie off an assortment of masonry products until we got bored. This is not to say that I have any special talents, just pointing out how incredibly strong steel really can be if the heat treat is zeroed in.

Possum, from reading your questions here and some of your other posts elsewhere, I believe I like the way you think;)
 
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