Ring Guard Bowie Progression

[Kyle Royer]

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.

Here are the materials to make this knife.

Here is the 1080 with the scale removed.

I have the billet ready to tack weld here.

Here I've tack welded the end of the billet.

Tack welded the side.

Here I've put kerosene on the billet and sprinkled borax on it. It is ready for the forge.

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.

In this picture I have drawn the billet out and it is ready to be cleaned, cut and re-stacked.

Now the billet is re-stacked and ready to be fluxed and forged welded again.

 

[Kyle Royer]

This is the billet in the forge.

The billet is drawn out again.

Here the billet is cleaned, cut and etched a little on the end so you can see the "W"s.

Tack welded together and ready for borax and forge.

Kerosene and borax.

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.

Twisting the billet.

The two twisted halves ready to be forged back square.

The twisted bars forged square.

 

[Kyle Royer]

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.

Here the twisted bars have been forge welded and drawn out.

 

[Patrick M.]

Another Kyle's WIP ! That's cooooool...

 

[barrabas74]

This is really Cool! Thanks for the detailed pics. Anxiously awaiting more.

 

[Lorien]

awesome

 

[Big Rick]

What a really interesting thread, look forward to the continuation of it

 

[Bruce Bump]

Very interesting Kyle. Cant wait to see that pattern.

 

[stabber]

Thanks for another great WIP thread Kyle! Awesome damascus pics!!:thumbup:

 

[Sean Cochran]

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

 

[Kevin Jones]

Really looking forward to seeing this one come together.

Thanks for taking the time to share this with us Kyle.

 

[John M Cohea]

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.

 

[TekSec]

Can't wait to see this one!

 

[JParanee]

Kyle you do great wip THREADS


THANKS

 

[Nebulae]

very nice pics, I'm kinda new here and I was wondering how you posted them I tried but couldn't figure it out

 

[Str8ShooterEsq]

Thank you for sharing this with us. Very cool!

 

[Keith Montgomery]

I love it. Thanks for doing this, Kyle.

 

[butcher_block]

i ll be keeping my eye open for that updates
looking cool so far

 

[canineforge]

This will be fun. Great stuff, Kyle. :thumbup: Isn't the energy of the youth of America great!!

- Joe

 

[Lorien]

Isn't the energy of the youth of America great!!
- Joe

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