Show Your First Knife?

[bartblade]

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME OF YOUR GUYS FIRST KNIVES IF YOU HAVE A PIC OF IT AND YOUR LATEST KNIFE LETS SEE THE BEFORE AND AFTER OF YOUR EXPIERENCES!

 

[rlinger]

All except the two I am making now are here from last to first: http://riflestocks.tripod.com/pics11.html


RL

 

[lifter4Him]

I saw Kit's first knife and it was pretty darn good.

 

[Alarion]

Er... first knife he dared to show anybody or first knife ever?
I have a picture of my first knife ever. I will post it this evening

 

[indian george]

440C and Wenge

 

[Alarion]

i.g. do you supply microscopes as well as knives?
Wher can I find a larger pic?

 

[Dan Gray]

OK but keep in mind this has been kicking around for almost 30 years.

the vine is the one I'm working on now.

two more to make after this one ahhhhh

 

[etp777]

My first knife would break the camera if I attmpted a picture. Though it might win the ugly knife contest for this year.

It stays in the bottom of a drawer for the times I'm actually making knives, but frustrated about how it's going. Drag it out, look at knife I'm working on, and remind myself that even though i'm having trouble with current one, at least it looks better than the first knife.

 

[Matt Shade]

Well here's my first knife. The blade was a pre hardened blank I picked up at woodcraft. Turns out it was prehardened to about RC64 drill bits just made the most annoying shreeking sound for about 2 seconds before they just spun, and really didn't do much more than leave a shiney spot on the tang.
So I had to make it a hidden tang (I guess it would be a mortised tang? 2 slabs with a recess carved out) and cut slots in the tang from the side with a dremel cut off wheel for the pins to go through. Handle is black cherry finished with Arm R Seal.
I hollow ground it on a bench grinder then spent a month convexing it by hand with sandpaper blade is about 2.5" long.

 

[Matt Shade]

Here is my second folder, don't have any pics of my first. I think it was somewhere around my 7th or 8th knife overall if you count the kits I put together after that other knife I posted.


3" O1 blade, aluminum bolsters, .040 410SS liners, cocobolo scales. Its pretty well used now, guess its been about a year now and I carry it quite a bit.

 

[Matt Shade]

Just to show that there IS a reason for those ugly hack marks on the side of the blade by the spine

I'm gonna have to hunt up the ugly knife contest thread now.

 

[indian george]

It looks better small
http://community.webshots.com/photo/28722377/28722730IvejxRSuJz

 

[Burchtree]

When I was around 12, I made a few knives on an old Belsaw grinder. My dad still uses one as a letter opener. Maybe I can talk him into taking a digital pic of it and sending it.

I didn't get into it again until late last year (around christmas) when I started filing out a big knife. Here is the first "official" knife of mine though as a grown up. This was posted on 2/19/03 (used the same old belsaw grinder too):

Here's one I made recently that I'm proud of:

 

[Laredo7mm]

Here is my stuff, from first to last.

My Stuff

 

[Dan Gray]

I like what I see Sean
but all the pictures are not showing
I want to see more nice stuff...

 

[Laredo7mm]

Dan, there are 30 pictures on that little html. If you are connecting to the internet with a dial up modem, it may time out before all the pictures get to load.

Where ever you see a blank spot, right click on it and select "show picture."

If you still have problems, let me know and I can just post links to each picture.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Dan Gray]

Sean
a lot of the first pictures showed up, some wouldn't load.
the box has a X in it
that's a bad link to a picture normaly.
I know pictures can be slow on a dial up but that was not it.

It's OK Now
if you just FTP'ed them in just before I looked they may not have be loaded up yet...all's well now...nice work guy..

 

[Laredo7mm]

Hey, here is a text and linked version:



First of all thanks for checking this out.

Secondly and more importantly, thanks for all your help. I truly could not have done it without the help of the Forums. Other than that, I hope you all enjoy this little picture show.

Here is my first attempt at trying to forge weld two different types of materials. It was supposed to be a ladder pattern made with C1095 and Pure Nickel. This guys was pounded out by hand before I had my power hammer up and running. She is stamped with 5/29/02.

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Here is my second one. See any difference? Well same materials, but I took myself out of the equation. This one was forged using my 25# Little Giant. I think there are 198 layers in this one. Thank God for power equipment.

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My third one was my first attempt at a twist pattern and my first attempt at a multi-bar twist. I have no idea how many layers are in each bar. I should written this stuff down. But again it is C1095 and Pure Nickel.

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3a

I finally decided to complete a knife. Here it is, my fourth blade and first complete knife. Materials are 15N20 and C1095. Chevron twist blade, fire blued guard and pommel with a wire wrapped handle.

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I think the next one I did was my buddy's Bowie knife. It was made out of Cable Damascus, first try mokume guard and pommel, and a stone handle. I am still trying to get this one back from him so I can touch it up, well redo it, but he won't let it go.

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Then came my knock off of the Schrade Sharpfinger. They were all 153 layer single twist Damascus made with C1095 and 15N20. Amboyna Burl handles and Mosaic Pins.

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6, 7, 8

Then came my little letter opener. Same billet as the ones above. Stone handle and integral bolster.

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I think my next one was this Persian Twist dagger. Six bars, each with 34 layers of 15N20 and C1095. Fire colored guard and pommel. Phosphor Bronze and Iron wire wrapped grip.

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The next one was my second attempt at Cable Damascus. I think this is my favorite so far, but still a couple things on it that I would like to fix. Anyway, straight laminate mokume guard, sub hilt, and pommel. Handle material is Siberian Nephrite Jade.

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Finally, the one you are probably tired of seeing. My Latest, and maybe greatest. Familiar style but I tweaked up the Damascus a bit with some pure nickel and used mokume pins instead of Mosaic ones. 311 layers of 15N20, 1095, and pure nickel.

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Here is something else I made for my Mom and Dad for their X-Mas present. A little off topic, but they were harder to do than a knife. They are made from 1/2 inch diameter steel rod. Let me tell you, high carbon steel forge welds a hell of a lot easier than this low carbon stuff.

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Finally, here is where all the work gets done. Yup, it is in my basement.

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[PropellerHead]

Here is my first (and only) finished knife. Many thanks go out to Ray Richard, Nick Marcelja and Matt Pinoy for all of their help.

I posted this on another forum but forgot to ask for opinions. So, please let me know what you think....

 

[misque]

Here is a pic of past and present knives. The top knife is the third one I ever did and is made from 3/16" thick D-2 heat treated by Paul Bos back in 1993. The handle is G-10 and the blade is 6 1/4" long. Full tang construction BTW. Knives 1 and 2 are in the hands of my two brothers who I seldom see these days. I've tried to get them to trade up so I can get those knives off the street but they both refuse on grounds of sentiment.

The second knife is a 3 3/4" blade made from 1/8" 52100 flat stock and was single edge quenched. Handle is Desert Ironwood burl, guard is brass and is of mortised tang construction held together with two stainless Corby fasteners.

All the best,
Mike U.