Ring Guard Bowie Progression

Kyle Royer

Kyle Royer

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Hi Everyone!

I am now going to start a progression on a Ring Guard Bowie.

Here is a recent thread discussing the design of the knife, Click Here.

I hope you enjoy this.

Thanks for looking.

If you have any questions I will try to answer them to the best of my ability.


Here is the sketch of the knife I'm going to make. It will have a 9" Four Bar Explosion Damascus blade. Premium Blue Mammoth Ivory Handle with Explosion Damascus fittings. It will have Stainless Steel liners with Vine and Thorn file-work. The ring guard will also have clam shells. This knife will be my first take down and will have a regular clam shell you can interchange with the ring guard clam shell. This will also be the first clam shell I've made.
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Here are the materials to make this knife.
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Here is the 1080 with the scale removed.
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I have the billet ready to tack weld here.
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Here I've tack welded the end of the billet.
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Tack welded the side.
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Here I've put kerosene on the billet and sprinkled borax on it. It is ready for the forge.
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Here I have forge welded the billet and have ground off the tack welds that held the billet together so they won't get in the billet and in the finished knife blade. I will now forge the billet out with the edges running up and down like in this picture to form "W"s in the billet.
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In this picture I have drawn the billet out and it is ready to be cleaned, cut and re-stacked.
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Now the billet is re-stacked and ready to be fluxed and forged welded again.
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This is the billet in the forge.
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The billet is drawn out again.
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Here the billet is cleaned, cut and etched a little on the end so you can see the "W"s.
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Tack welded together and ready for borax and forge.
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Kerosene and borax.
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I have forged the billet into a 3/4" square bar with the edges bevelled a little and am heating half the billet to twist right. After I twist half the billet right I'll twist the other half left.
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Twisting the billet.
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The two twisted halves ready to be forged back square.
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The twisted bars forged square.
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Here the two twisted bars have been cut in half to make four pieces. I have cleaned the scale off the top and bottom of the pieces and alternately stacked them left, right, left, right. Now I'll tack weld them together and forge weld.
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Here the twisted bars have been forge welded and drawn out.
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awesome:cool:
 
Thanks for another great WIP thread Kyle! Awesome damascus pics!!:thumbup:
 
Kyle
This is why I like this forum so much, I was just trying to figure out how to do a "w" pattern.

Keep up the good work.

Sean
 
Really looking forward to seeing this one come together.

Thanks for taking the time to share this with us Kyle.
 
I will look forward to this one. Did you get those scales from Roland Quimby at Blade this year?I have a set that looks just like those that a customer of mine purchased from him that will be on an extra large friction folder I am in the process of making.
 
very nice pics, I'm kinda new here and I was wondering how you posted them I tried but couldn't figure it out
 
This will be fun. Great stuff, Kyle. :thumbup: Isn't the energy of the youth of America great!!

- Joe
 
canineforge said:
Isn't the energy of the youth of America great!!
- Joe
Click to expand...

and it always will be, and all the more with the financial and moral support of America's old folks:thumbup:
 
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