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- May 8, 2011
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(First knife for comparison)
Well, I tried for that, but during HT I encountered a little warping due to grinding too far initially. I tried hammering it back to shape (which ended up giving me a large nick that I couldn't get out even after hours of belt sanding on 40-60 grit so I just left it) but I also chipped the back portion and created fractures. Instead of ditching the knife and starting over, I ground out all of the fractures and chips to see what would be left.
From their, I noticed it looked very similar to a knife that my uncle gave to me after he learned that I was going to learn blacksmithing and knifesmithing. It turns out that I had blacksmiths and knifesmiths as ancestors! He sent me a few custom knifes made by a man named Mudd (Sharigan?) From that point, I tried to recreate the knife he sent me (is it a buck skinning knife? I don't know my knife shapes very well).
A few ending notes:
My knife is not as sharp
I would have remade the sheath, but I ran out of pins and don't have any thread
You can see the dent on my knife in the last picture
My knife is a finer grit, but Mudd's knife has a nicer, more linear sanding direction
My file work was done with the file in the first pic. Need to get a set of file work files
The scariest part was engraving my symbol as I was afraid I was going to mess it up
Thanks,
Tanner Frisby
Well, I tried for that, but during HT I encountered a little warping due to grinding too far initially. I tried hammering it back to shape (which ended up giving me a large nick that I couldn't get out even after hours of belt sanding on 40-60 grit so I just left it) but I also chipped the back portion and created fractures. Instead of ditching the knife and starting over, I ground out all of the fractures and chips to see what would be left.
From their, I noticed it looked very similar to a knife that my uncle gave to me after he learned that I was going to learn blacksmithing and knifesmithing. It turns out that I had blacksmiths and knifesmiths as ancestors! He sent me a few custom knifes made by a man named Mudd (Sharigan?) From that point, I tried to recreate the knife he sent me (is it a buck skinning knife? I don't know my knife shapes very well).
A few ending notes:
My knife is not as sharp
I would have remade the sheath, but I ran out of pins and don't have any thread
You can see the dent on my knife in the last picture
My knife is a finer grit, but Mudd's knife has a nicer, more linear sanding direction
My file work was done with the file in the first pic. Need to get a set of file work files
The scariest part was engraving my symbol as I was afraid I was going to mess it up
Thanks,
Tanner Frisby