Orbis - Brend style

[Toni Oostendorp]

A good friend asked me to make him an Orbis with a blade that is based on Walter Brend's knives. Since I'm a big fan of mr Brend, I accepted the challenge.

The blade is forged out of a block of O1 toolsteel, has a blade of 11 inches....here are the first pictures:

My mini press

here the steel is stretched to become the blade

Blade is rough forged here, after this stage low temperature forging is next....

The first wing of the guard is folded out here

and the bottom one, it's a bit crude at this stage, but will be refined later on

Blade ready to cool and after that draw the outline

Outline has been drawn on the blade so I can check how much meat is left. In this case I made the blade longer than originaly decided on because I had enough steel left. Also the first big chunks of steel have been removed.

Tapering the blade

The Grip to be, stabilised Russian Walnot burl, present from my good friend Sam Lurquin (Thanks Sam!)

Further grinding on the fine belts

Here all imperfections from grinding are being removed with the DMT stone.

Flat areas are flattened with the DMT diafold. DMT is perfect for flat ereas!

Finishing the grip

Polishing the the hollow ground parts of the blade. The flat areas will get a handrubbed finish of 1000 grit.

 

[BenR.T.]

Very nice work, thanks for taking the time to show your process. :thumbup:

 

[firebolt]

thank you my friend,

this week will be a special week, receiving this beauty

 

[Toni Oostendorp]

And the end result:

11 inch long blade, hollow parts are polished and the flats handrubbed to 1000 grit. This project has been quite a challenge.....as was taking some decent pictures.....
I take my hat of for mr Brend and all others who do these grinds.

 

[peterinct]

AWESOME work Toni! I like it very much, and that mirror finish on O1 looks VERY nice! The handle shape looks good too.

Your buddy will be excited when he sees that bad boy!

Peter

 

[Toni Oostendorp]

Thanks Peter.

 

[Steve Randall]

Sweet looking knife and thanks for all the pictures

steve

 

[Dawkind]

My hats off to YOU for not only grinding and polishing to perfection but forging an integral such as that....

 

[Nebulae]

wow that is nice. I like the lines and finish

 

[Lorien]

beauty! Wouldn't wanna be on the receiving end of that blade.

 

[tinkerer]

I've read and reread this about 3 times. Just awesome.

Larry
Tinkerer

 

[Christophe]

Very cool knife you made Toni.

 

[Jos]

Very cool indeed. The combination of the Brend-style grinds with the Eastvillage-style handle works very well.

And that wood is really beautiful!

Can't wait to see the sheath! Hurry up Martin S.!

Kind regards,

Jos

 

[darrex]

really nice....... Have you just sold it?